Judge Samuel Anderson Gilmore and Rachel Tod

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Husband Judge Samuel Anderson Gilmore ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

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           Born: 21 Jan 1806 or 1808 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 10
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           Died: 15 May 1873 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 1 10
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         Father: Hon. John Gilmore (1780-1845) 2 3 11 12
         Mother: Elena Spence Anderson (      -      ) 13

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   Other Spouse: Elvira A. Plumer (1827-1892) 2 3 7 8

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Wife Rachel Tod ⁹

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            AKA: [Unk] Todd 3
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         Father: Hon. John Tod (1779-1830) 14 15
         Mother: Mary Read Hanna (1788-1826) 14 15 16

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General Notes: Husband - Judge Samuel Anderson Gilmore

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He was educated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, read law with his father and was admitted to the bar in 1827; he soon acquired a leading place in his profession. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1836-37; he was afterward chosen one of the Secretaries of the Constitutional Convention of 1838; he was appointed President Judge of the judicial district composed of the counties of Washington, Greene and Fayette by Gov. Shunk; he was afterward elected and re-elected to the same position, after the judiciary became elective, and was still discharging the responsible duties of the office when death took him. [HBC 1883, 55]

He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the bar, and continued as a practicing lawyer until his appointment as president judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District, in February, 1848, when he removed to Uniontown. Under the change of constitution he was elected to the same office in 1851, and served on the bench until the December term of 1861. He was again elected in October, 1865, and continued in office until his death. On that occasion a meeting of members of the Fayette County bar was held, at which the following resolutions were unanimously adopted, viz.:
"1st. That after more than twenty years' service on the bench, Judge Gilmore lays down his important trust unsuspected that it has on any occasion been violated, and leaving an excellent reputation for legal and general learning, for sterling integrity as man and judge, for strict impartiality in the discharge of his official duties, for patriotism as a citizen, as a hater of wrong and sympathizer with the weak, and as a firm believer in and an earnest promoter of the Christian religion.
"2d. That as a judge it was always his prime object to ascertain the right of any matter tried before him, and having learned this, it was an inflexible rule of law indeed which could prevent him from seeing that justice and equity was done." [HFC 1882, 146]

He was educated at Jefferson College, studied law under the direction of his father, and was admited to the bar January 8, 1828. He practiced in Butler, Pennsylvania, becoming very well known and popular. He was elected to the legislature 1836 and 1837, and was secretary to the constitutional convention of 1838. In 1848 he was appointed judge of the territory forming the fourteenth and twenty-seventh judicial districts by Governor Shunk, when that office became an elective one. In 1851 he was easily elected president judge, an office he held until death. After his appointment as judge he lived in Washington, Pennsylvania, one year, then located in Uniontown. He was the ideal judge, learned in the law, impartial and a hater of wrong or injustice. He endeavored to see that justice and equity prevailed in every case that came before him, and had the unvarying respect of the lawyers whose cases he sat in judgment upon. He was a Democrat in politics and a member of the Episcopal church. [GPHFC, 465]

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 146.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 465.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 246.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 55, 64.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 153.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 248.

7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 756.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 408.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 85.

10 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 55.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50, 64.

12 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 150.

13 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 84.

15 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 53.

16 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 501.