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DEDICATION. As the history of a nation, so the history of a great public institution is embodied in the lives of its great men. A strong alumni body is both foundation and reserve power for a university, and thus with a realization of the noble office which our alumni have tilled in. the history of the Western University of Pennsylvania, recognizing the dignity thus gained for their infant publication, the editors of the Owl” respectfully dedicate their maiden effort to the oldest living alumnus of the University and one who has ever had its best interests at heart, HONORABLE THOMAS MELLON. [ 5 1
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HONORABLE THOMAS MELLON. The subject of this sketch is one of the oldest and best known citizens of Pittsburgh. He was born February 3, 1813, at Camp Hill. County Tyrone, Ireland, and when five years old accompanied his parents to America, settling in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. From that time until he was twenty years old he lived upon the farm, working in summer, studying in winter, and by his fondness for study making it clear that he should enter some profession rather than remain upon the farm. Accordingly he was sent to the Classical School at Monroeville, Allegheny county, conducted by the Rev. Jonathan Gill, and later matriculated in the Western University of Pennsylvania, then situated on Third street. Pittsburgh. Here he graduated in the class of 1837. Two years before his graduation he began to read law with Judge Shaler, a leading attorney of the day. and in December of 1838 he was admitted to the Allegheny County Bar. While a student in the University, he brought to his work the same painstaking care, intensity of application and discrimination of judgment which characterized him in all his after life and made it so eminently successful; and when, at the opening of the college term after he had finished his course, a temporary vacancy occurred in the Latin department, young Mellon was. by reason of his accurate and thorough scholarship, chosen to fill the position. Ever afterwards he declared that his experience in the professor’s chair was of incalculable benefit to him. For some months he served as managing clerk of the Prothonotary’s office, and in June, 1839. he began the active practice of the law. His office was on Fifth avenue and Market street, and from the beginning he enjoyed a remarkable lucrative practice. In 1858 Ins intense labors began to tell upon his health, and his friends both at the bar and on the bench, prevailed upon him to become a candidate for a judgeship recently created in the Court of Common Pleas No. 1. and he was elected. He discharged the duties of this [ 6 ]
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