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BLACK, JEREMIAH S. 



EDWARD WHITE BENSON. ARCHBISHOP OP CANTERBURY. 



tributed to the " Speaker's Commentary," has 

 written much for periodicals, and has pub- 

 lished in book-form "Work, Friendship, Wor- 

 ship," three sermons (London, 1872); "Boy- 

 Life " (1874) ; " Singleheart " (1877) ; " Living 

 Theology " (1878) ; and " The Cathedral in the 

 Life and Work of the Church " (1879). 



BERNARD AFFAIR, The. See BELGIUM. 



BLACK, Jeremiah Sullivan, an American jurist 

 and statesman, born in the Glades, Somerset 

 co., Pa., Jan. 10, 1810; died at his home in 

 York, Pa., Aug. 19, 1883. His ancestry was 

 partly Irish and Scotch. James Black, his 

 grandfather, came to America from the north 

 of Ireland, and settled in Somerset co., Pa., 

 where, in 1778, Henry Black, father of Jere- 

 miah, was born, and where he lived. Henry 

 Black was a man of note in his day. 



Jeremiah's early education was obtained at 

 school near his home, on his father's farm, and 

 he displayed in youth a decided turn for intel- 

 lectual and literary pursuits. He studied law, 

 was taken into the office of Chauncey For- 

 ward, a prominent lawyer in Somerset co., 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1833 . In 1838 

 he married a daughter of Mr. Forward. After 

 an active and successful practice of eleven 

 years, he was raised to the bench. In politics 

 he was a Democrat, claiming to be after the 

 Jeffersonian pattern, and he was nominated, 

 in 1842, by a Democratic Governor, for Presi- 

 dent Judge of the district in which he lived. 

 This post he held for nine years. In 1851 

 Judge Black was elected to be one of the Su- 

 preme Court judges of Pennsylvania. After 

 serving the short term, three years, he was re- 



