Show JUI 1 FR am A birok its ml I 1 r can any city boast an older judge PA who Is the oldest judge now in active sor service borvice vice anil and has tiny any other judge thain jolin john joseph lien hen alerson of crawford county vit P ll 11 ever been returned to lits ills by a public i election after ills eightieth birthday meadville thinks lie liolis told both records judge henderson enderson II Is beginning his tit term its s a superior court judge to which lie was ns reelected elected re by the unprecedented dented plurality of more aluin which shows aliat the electorate think or of lila ills abilities tit nt eighty alq was horn in alie son of itea C henderson enderson II a methodist clergyman tin mid caime with ills parents to Alend ville tit nt the lie age of eleven lie ile was graduated graduate froni from allegheny college before lie was eighteen lie ite entered the one hundred fiftieth pennsylvania volunteers of tile buck tick tall brigade being in the fighting tit at fredericksburg chancellorsville get and the lie battles in the wilder ness later young henderson enderson II was detailed to washington for special work in tile the onico of tile the provost marshal ifo ife saw the assassination of tin lincoln oln when lie ho was waa thirty years old lie he was district attorney of craw ford county llo ile was elected Coni tift aleas judge in 1887 ans twi minted to the superior lor court bench benali ly by governor Venny pennypacker packer in 1893 and that lint full fall was vas elected for tile full term of ten teli years was reelected elected re in lil and again in 1023 the man who liis ims spent a genera don on the bench till and Is still nulo able to td carry its burden steadily sten dlly dily tint and ably Is well vell tin and strong for ills years and seldom lins it lins been said of him that be knows more men in crawford coltri tk by their flint names than do tiny 0 oilier ter five jy inen rt avii lle ills community Is P proud roud of his record ns as it jurist it Is perhaps ns as n public speaker that lie bus their most enthusiastic allegiance allen it Is announce announced that tile judge Is going to speak the largest in tile country Is always tilled filled lind ills fellow elti citizens zens applaud with heartfelt delight tile his oratory orators ills logic bogl and ana his intense americanism it lie never use 1 manuscript or notes in his 1119 speeches lie ile lias has never married lie he and his two remaining brothers live together in the judges large and comfortable home ionic on chestnut ile he Is an expert at both chess and checkers |