The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-11-06
JUDGE PENDEhl.
Nan-He ARR Ees iu Leadviile With
Two Dollars ;.rG .Inety Cents-Eur
To-Day May Easily Count Up n
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Wha,? d Il know him? Never hearC
the name Of Al, At fifty yesr-old, full set
slouched hat, oipe smoking Nan that goe
jolting up and down the camp on a seven
ty-six dollar place? Well, that man il
worth to-day not less than one million dol
lars, and his name - John Ludlow Pen
derry. They call him Judge Pendery, ant
he was FIRST made pop lar by the discovery
Of the Perdsry mine ON the 19h day o
last April.
Just six months ago Judge Pendery wa:
the poorest Ii an in Leadville, az he is now
with but one exc. ption, the richest All
last winter that man actually sufiered, as
many another will suffer during the coming
winter, for the necesssries Of life Such
| are some Of the reverses of fortune in this
busy camp. Oae day without nickle, the
next the owner Of million dollars
Judge Pendery is a native Of Hamilton
county, Ohio, where he was born fifty
four years ago coming the Goth day Of
December. His father was a farmer and
John ran for COWS, rolled logs, barked trees,
hoed corn, picked up potatoes, sawed wood,
skinned calves, put crooked pins on Sun
day school seats, attended apple bees and
courted girls, till he was eighteen years
old. Then his pious old farmer fathe,
thought it time for the boy to commence
learning to be minister Of the blessed
gospel, and 80 John vas packed way of to
Csrey's Academy--six miles from the pa
rental roof. The commencement of this
journey was the first event in Pendery's
life. IL created a commotion in the q1iet
country ueighborhood where he had hu-ked
and frolicked for eighteen years. The hour
Of starting brought the whole neighborhood
together to say the good.bye at the door,
and some to shed tesrs at hi. going. But
John went all the same. He .e,ald three
years at Csrey's Academy, few miles from
Cincinnati, but it never m ade him q minis
ter. Daring this time an uucle-Israel
Ludlow was his nsme-took a fancy to
John and proposed that he should be a
lawyer. This suited the young students
taste better than the pulpit practice, and so
at the close of his scsdemic course, in his
tweuty-second year, he took up his home
with his uncle, on the Kentucky side of
the Ohio, three miles below Cincinnati,
and began the study of Law. Fox and
Lincoln, whose Office wss then on Third
street, in Cincinnati, we're his tutors. John
used 10 row across the river every morning
and after sweeping the office, running Of
errands, and reading . little Blackstone,
Kent, etc, during the day, row back to his
uncle's residence at night. 1t was in this
way that in the course Of about . year he
get admitted to the bar and at once began
practice. This was in ls47. His Office vas
on Third street, Cincinnati, between Wal.
nut and Pine. His FIRST etart in life came |
through Judge Mclean, of the Supreme |
Bench of tie United States. Mclean was |
8 relative by marriage, and taking . liking |
to the youpg lawyer appointed him an |
United States Commissioners for Ohio. As
such the name of John Ludlow Pendery |
room became . household word over the |
whole land.
Perhaps there are real old people living
in Leadville who can remember the Rosetta
slave case. The circumstances were these:
A master came across from Kentucky to
Ohio, accompanied by his female slave.
Oa arriving in Cincinnati, the slave declar-
ID her right to be free and refused to
'e-cross the river VITO slavery. ire
,sse Was taken before United States Com
missioner Psndery. He heard and
lecided that the slave girl was
rec. She need not return with her
master to q slave State. The decision
Iroused the nation from circumference to
enter, and for many months the public
journals discussed but little else than Pen
lerys dscision. This gave the young law
'sr proninence in his Profession in