Judge William McClean and Matilda Gates

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Husband Judge William McClean ¹

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            AKA: President Judge William McLane 2
           Born: 13 Mar 1833 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hon. Moses McClean (1804-1870) 3 4
         Mother: Hannah Mary McConaughy (      -      ) 4 5

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   Other Spouse: Fannie Riggin (      -1867) 1 - 1855 1

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Wife Matilda Gates ¹

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           Died: 1885 1
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Children

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1 M Saint John McClean ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Judge William McClean

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He graduated at what is now Washington and Jefferson College (then Washington) in 1851. He read law in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, under the instruction of his father, and subsequently furthered his studies at Harvard University, and was admitted to the bar in 1854, from which time until 1874 he was in active practice. In 1873 he served as a member of the Constitutional Convention, and the following year was elected president judge, in which capacity he served ten years, and at the expiration of that time, on the meeting of the four conventions of the two counties comprising the district, he was renominated by both Democrats and Republicans without opposition, and served a second term in that office. It was said of him that he did his duty fearless of friend or foe.
He was a member of the Episcopal Church, was church warden for several years and served as superintendent of the Sunday-school.

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General Notes: Wife - Matilda Gates

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from Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA

1 Editor, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 362.

2 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 378.

3 Editor, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 72, 362.

4 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 437.

5 Editor, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 363.