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He was extremely fond of music, playing well upon 

 the flute, and singing- with great sweetness of voice. 

 Indeed, to the last days of his life, music was to him a 

 great joy, and in the education of his children he 

 sought attentively to give them musical accomplish- 

 ments. The two years and more which he spent in 

 Mr. Ingersoll's office were passed with great advan- 

 tage to himself, and he never forgot the debt of grati- 

 tude he owed to his preceptor. In after years he paid 

 it to that preceptor's memory in a manner that de- 

 lighted the bar, and set up an enduring monument of 

 his own respect and affection. 



Having completed his apprenticeship, Mr. Binney 

 was admitted to the bar of the court of Common 

 Pleas on the 31st day of March, iSoo, though he was 

 then but little over twenty years of age, and at the 

 March Term of 1802 he was admitted to the bar of the 

 Supreme Court of the State. At the time of his ad- 

 mission the Supreme court consisted of Shippen, Chief 

 Justice, and Yeates, Smith and Breckenridge, associate 

 justices. Before these men he made his first appear- 

 ance in the highest court of the State, and from them 

 he received a kindly treatment that he never failed 

 gratefully to remember. 



In the year 1 800, and through the early part of this 

 century the eminent men who led the legal profession 

 in the city were William Lewis, Edward Tilghman. 

 Jared Ingersoll, William Rawle, William Tilghman, and 

 Alexander James Dallas. To these may be added Mr- 



