Re: George Junkin (1790-1868)
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George Junkin (1790-1868)
1/29/01
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VI
JUNKIN, George, lawyer, was born in Milton, Pa., March 18, 1827; son of the Rev. George (q.v.) and Julia Rush (Miller) Junkin. He attended Lafayette college, but in the middle of his junior year be accompanied his father to Miami university and was graduated from there in 1842. He studied law in the office of James M. Porter, Easton, Pa., 1844-47, and then with Samuel M. Perkins, Philadelphia, 1847-48. He was admitted to the bar, March 18, 1848, and practised at Philadelphia. He was vice-provost of the Law academy of Philadelphia for twelve years; was nominee of the Independent Republican party for judge of the supreme court in 1882; was made a director of the Princeton Theological seminary in 1869; was a representative to the Pan-Presbyterian council in Edinburgh in 1877, in Philadelphia in 1880, and in Belfast in 1884. Rutgers college conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1890.