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Washington McCartney was born on August 24, 1812, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Thomas McCartney and Margaret Ross McCartney, but was early left an orphan, dependent upon his own resources.
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Washington McCartney was born on August 24, 1812, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Thomas McCartney and Margaret Ross McCartney, but was early left an orphan, dependent upon his own resources.
After attending the common-schools until he reached the age of eighteeen, McCartney entered Jefferson College at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with high honors in the class of 1834.
In 1835, McCartney became professor of mathematics in Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, but after a year was recalled to Jefferson as professor of mathematics and modern languages, resuming his chair at Lafayette, however, in 1837. Here, for most of the time until 1846, he taught mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy. In 1843 he resigned his professorship to practise law, but resumed his connection with the college the following year. In 1844, he published The Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus, which was widely used as a textbook. Because the trustees of Lafayette would not increase his salary from $600 to $800 a year, he relinquished his professorship again in 1846, although the students protested vigorously and offered to make good the difference themselves. From 1847 to 1852, he was a trustee of the college, and professor of mental and moral philosophy from 1849 to 1852. These academic distinctions were attained outside of McCartney's chosen career, which was in the legal profession. Having studied law while teaching, he was admitted to the bar in 1838. From 1846 to 1848, he was deputy attorney-general for Northampton County.
In 1851, McCartney was elected president judge of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania.
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Besides his work as teacher, lawyer, and judge, he engaged in many other activities. He delivered public lectures on such general topics as "How to Read a Book" as well as on the subjects of his special studies, and he was active in the formation of the Easton Lyceum in 1842. As an industrious member of the school board and an enthusiast for free education he was influential in the establishment of the Easton High School. Living before the age of specialization, McCartney explored most of the fields of knowledge that then interested the scholarly mind. He was described as a learned theologian and as an accomplished linguist who, after mastering the common ancient and modern languages, took up the study of Russian. When he died, at the age of forty-four, he left unpublished a work on evidence and papers on other legal subjects and on logic, rhetoric, optics, and various mathematical topics.
Quotes from others about the person
"Perhaps no man in the borough had a closer relation to all its vital interests. Without aspiring to leadership in anything, he was ever designing schemes to benefit his fellowmen"
On April 18, 1839, he was married to Mary E. Maxwell of Easton.
August 1775 - June 1815
1785 - 1815
24 April 1814 - 25 December 1893
18 September 1851 - 17 November 1928
23 September 1845 - 21 January 1924
17 February 1840 - 26 March 1847
