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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Judge Ferree Brinton |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[4][5][3] |
9 Oct 1800 |
Laycock, Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| Marriage |
8 Sep 1824 |
Chester, Pennsylvania, United StatesConcord Meeting
to Elizabeth Sharpless |
| Other[9] |
10 Sep 1850 |
Paradise (township), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesCensus - 1850 |
| Occupation[9] |
19 Sep 1850 |
Farmer |
| Other[14] |
Nov 1851 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesJury Duty |
| Occupation[13] |
1856 |
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesJudge |
| Other |
Abt 1861 |
Bellmonte, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesResidence*
with Elizabeth Sharpless |
| Occupation[8][3] |
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Farmer, magistrate, and associate judge |
| Other[11][12] |
1861 |
Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesRailroad Trust |
| Death[6][7][3] |
6 Nov 1874 |
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Other[8][3] |
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesResidence - Principal |
References
- ↑ Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).
- ↑ kamp3genealogy@@netscape.net. Heisterkamp, Charles, III, M.D..
1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601, ckamp3@@netscape,net, 717-392-0562
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D. Annotated Landis Ferree Tree. (30 April 2004).
Date of Import: Jul 14, 2004
- ↑ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.). (Internet)
Film # 1239637.
- ↑ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.). (Internet)
Film #1239609.
- ↑ Frederick Virkus. Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy. (Frederick A. Virkus & Company, Chicago, Ill. 1925)
page 1763.
- ↑ Herbert Standing. Delaware Quaker Records: Wilmington. (Wilmington, 1900)
page 288.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Janetta Wright Schoonover, Gilbert Cope, and Ellen Starr Brinton. The Brinton Genealogy: A History of William Brinton ... and His Descendants. (MacCullich & Quigley County, Trenton, NJ, 1925)
page 231.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 1850 United States Federal Census.
- Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D..
- ↑ Edited by Robert Denlinger. Paradise: Our Heritage, Our Home. (Paradise, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Paradise Township Citizens Committee, Inc., 1997)
131.
In 1854, the Strasburg Railroad was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Most of the lines were profitable for the railroad companies, but the troubled Strasburg line turned into a white elephant for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Strasburg Railroad was not a moneymaker, so the officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to allow it to go to bankrupt. In 1861 the Strasburg Railroad was sold at a sheriff auction for only $13,000.
Ferree Brinton purchased the road in a trust for himself and 21 other men, including Thomas Franklin and Thaddeus Stevens. The original stockholders received only seven dollars for each $100 share owned. The partnership was eventually disolved as the trust sold their individual interest one by one to John and Cyrus Herr.
- ↑ History of Lancaster County
5, 1924.
- ↑ Surnames A-B, in A Biographical History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania)
75.
Brinton, Ferree, was elected Assistant Judge of Lancaster County, in 1856. He was re-elected in 1861, and served two terms with great satisfactionto his constituents. As a judge he was very upright and conscientious, and discharged his duties with great credit. A writer in the Daily Evening Express said of Judge Brinton, that he "was a gentleman in his manners and habits, and was the most intellectual looking non law-judge that I ever was on any bench, and he had more mind and information that any non law-judge I ever knew but one."
- ↑ The Treason Trials, in The Christiana Riot, Lancaster, PA
65.
Ferree Brinton was among the several called for jury duty for the Christiana Riot Treason Trial. He did not serve. He appeared on a list in the above referenced book as follows: 9.Brinton, Ferree, Merchant, Belmont P.O., Lancaster co. Later associate judge; father-in-law of Judge Wiltbank of Philadelphia. Stood aside.
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