1. Daniel Agnew was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1879.
12 Facts About Daniel Agnew
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Daniel Agnew grew up there, attended the University of Pittsburgh, and then studied law with two experienced attorneys.
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Daniel Agnew was admitted to the bar in 1829, at age twenty and began practicing law.
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Daniel Agnew soon relocated his legal practice about 35 miles north, to the town of Beaver, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Beaver County.
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Daniel Agnew became an expert on land titles, an important topic in western Pennsylvania at that time.
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Daniel Agnew received honorary Legum Doctor degrees from Washington College in 1864, and Dickinson College in 1880, both in Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Agnew was in the Whig Party until the Republican Party was being organized in the late 1850s.
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Daniel Agnew assisted in that party's organization and was thereafter known as a Republican.
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Daniel Agnew occupied his time by writing a number of pamphlets devoted to the history of the Beaver area.
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Daniel Agnew's health began to decline around 1899 and he died on March 9,1902.
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Daniel Agnew's father was a Princeton-educated doctor and his mother was part of the Howell family that was prominent in New Jersey affairs of that era.
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In 1831, Daniel Agnew married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Robert Moore, a prominent citizen and politician in Beaver.