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424 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
of Avhich was a provision that a will contest could be appealed from the
common pleas to the District Court and tried there before the three
judges and a jury of twelve men. The District Court became unsatisfactory
for several reasons, one of which AA'as that it took the common
pleas judges away from their work when they AA'ere needed in their own
THE BAR OP ERIE COUNTY ABOUT 1875
The judge on the bench is William G. Lane. At bis left is the clerk,
0. C. McLouth and his deputy, William J. Affleck. In the sheriff's box
is D.'S. Worthington. In front of him is Merrill Starr, the sheriff'. On
the left of Starr is Waldo Converse. Behind Waldo Converse is B. F.
Lee, and behind Lee, Cooper K. Watson. The man reading a book in
front of the judge's desk is Judge E. B. Sadler. At the left of Cooper
K. AVatson is Judge S. F. Taylor. At the left of Judge Taylor is Homer
GoodAvin. At the left of Homer GoodAvin is J. G. BigcloAV. Directly
behind Bigelow is John T. Beecher. Immediately left of BigcloAV is Herman
Ohly, and just in front of Ohly. near the rail, is L. II. GoodAvin.
Directly behind L. II. Goodwin is Fred. Reinheinier. The others are
unidentified.
court, and the District Court Avas succeeded in 1885 by the Circuit Court,
which Avas provided for by an amendment to the constitution and came
into existence on the 1st of January, 1885. The state Avas divided into
eight circuits finally, and the Sixth Circuit, of which Erie County forms
a part, at the inception of the Circuit Court Avas distinguished for the