BIO: William TRICKETT, Cumberland County, PA
  
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 129-130
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    WILLIAM TRICKETT, LL.D., was born June 9, 1840, in Leicester, the 
    capital of Leicestershire, in the heart of England. While he was only in 
    his second year his parents. removed to the United States, and settled 
    in Philadelphia, where the son was brought up attending the primary, 
    secondary and grammar schools, and finally at thirteen, entering the 
    Central high school, from which he graduated in his seventeenth year. 
    When eighteen and a half years of age he became attached to the 
    Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for five 
    or six years preached at various points in the States of Delaware, 
    Maryland and Pennsylvania. His health failing about this time he found 
    it necessary to adopt some other avocation, and, relinquishing 
    preaching, he entered upon a course in Dickinson College, from which 
    institution he graduated in 1868, remaining for one year after his 
    graduation as principal of its preparatory school. In the summer of 1869 
    he was elected an adjunct professor of Philosophy in Dickinson College, 
    a position he held for two years. In 1871 he went to Europe, where he 
    remained for sixteen months, traveling and studying in Germany, 
    Switzerland and France. While thus engaged in Europe he was elected 
    Professor in Dickinson College, which place he accepted on his return, 
    in 1872, and filled until the fall of 1874, when he resigned it and took 
    up the study of law. He prepared for the law at Carlisle, and was 
    admitted to the Cumberland County Bar in 1875, and to practice in the 
    Supreme Court in 1877. A few years after entering upon the practice of 
    his profession Mr. Trickett turned his attention to the writing of law 
    books, at which he has kept assiduously ever since, and in which line he 
    has won great distinction. In 1881 he produced in two volumes the Law of 
    Liens in Pennsylvania, and in 1891 an additional volume on the same 
    subject; in 1884 the Law of Limitation and the Law of Assignments; in 
    1893, the Law of Boroughs, to which he added a supplementary volume in 
    1898; in 1894, the Law of Highways; in 1900 the Law of Guardians and the 
    Law of Partition; in 1901, the Law of Witnesses; and in 1904, the Law of 
    Landlord and Tenant, and at present he is engaged on several other 
    important works.

    Mr. Trickett never sought office, but in 1891 he was elected to a 
    Constitutional Convention, which convention, however, did not meet. In 
    1898 he was one of the Democratic nominees for Superior Court Judge and 
    received 412,580 votes, while his colleagues on the ticket received an 
    average of 353,117. His favorite studies in his earlier years were 
    theology and philosophy; in later years, law, sociology and politics in 
    the Aristotelian sense. He is a member of the American Bar Association; 
    of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; and of the American Academy of
  
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    Political and Social Science; in 1890 DePauw University conferred upon 
    him the degree of LL.D.

    In 1890 Dr. Trickett was elected dean of the Dickinson Law School, which 
    had then just been incorporated to continue the work of an earlier 
    school originated by Hon. John Reed, a former president judge of the 
    Courts of Cumberland county. He has been dean continuously ever since, a 
    period of thirteen years, during which time 300 lawyers have been 
    trained in the school, who are now practicing their profession in 
    Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and other States. Besides the 
    oversight of the school he has, during his incumbency, given lectures 
    several hours daily on the law of Real Property, Contracts, Evidence, 
    Decedent's Estates, Bills and Notes, Corporations and Constitutional 
    Law. During the first year of the school under its charter he did all 
    the teaching that was done. The school has, during the fourteen years, 
    reached a maximum of over 100 full students, besides students of the 
    College who have taken a practical law course.