In 1825, having been found to wield a ready pen, he became associated with Simon Cameron, then State printer, as editor and reporter for the Pennsylvania Intelligencer, the Democratic organ of the administration, they doing all the English State printing, and employing a large number of hands. He continued to fill these positions till the election of President Jackson, in 1828, when he sold out his interest to his partner, and returned to practice again.

It should have been stated before that on the arrival of General Lafayette in Philadelphia, late in 1824, Governor Shulze, his secretary, and a cavalcade, went down to that city to invite the nation's guest to Harrisburg. Arriving at Norristown on Saturday evening, they laid over as the guests of Hon. Philip S. Markley, who was then one of our most prominent citizens, till Monday, when they proceeded on their mission, and in due time the General came to Harrisburg.

About the beginning of January, 1829, Frederick Smith, being Attorney General, appointed Mr. Krause his deputy for Dauphin county, which position he held about a year, until Governor Wolf took the chair of State, when he was super_ ceded, and he returned again to practice.

In 1835 he was nominated to the lower house of Assembly for Dauphin county, on the Whig ticket, and elected. During the ensuing session (1835-36) he voted to recharter the United States Bank as a State institution. This session was also distinguished for the widening of the free school system and an enlargement of public improvements then in progress. All of these measures had Mr. Krause's earnest support. From the close of his one year's legislative service till the nomination of David R. Porter for Governor, in 1838, he was practicing his profession and taking little interest in politics. He espoused the cause of Porter, however, who was "the best abused man in the State," and on his triumphant election Mr. Krause took editorial charge of the State Journal in the support of his administration. In the meantime he practiced law in Harrisburg till January, 1845, when, just at the close of the Governor's term, there occurred a vacancy on the bench of Montgomery and Bucks counties through the transference of Judge Burn

side to the Supreme Court. This post, unasked, was tendered to Mr. Krause, but before his acceptance could be certified Governor Shunk came into office and confirmed the appointment, though solicited by Krause's enemies to withhold it.. Judge Krause accepted the position, took his seat September 17th, 1845, and continued to occupy the bench of our district. acceptably, residing in Norristown, till the expiration of the term (1851), when the elective judiciary, under the Constitu-tion of 1838, was to go into effect. Prominent men of both parties tendered him the nomination before the people for the post, but being opposed on principle to an elective judiciary, Judge Krause positively declined, preferring to return to practice, which he did till the time of his death in June, 1871.

As a legislator and judge the subject of our notice was always distinguished for a bold and fearless discharge of what he regarded as right; and it may be recorded to his credit that not many of his rulings were reversed by the Supreme Court. Among the members of the latter Judges Gibson and Rogers. were his intimate friends. Whether as a legislator, judge, or citizen, he was a man of positive convictions, and did what he thought his duty; hence in his early political life he was often cast athwart party movements, thus seeming to lack political consistency.

Having thus given a rapid and imperfect sketch of JudgeKrause as a public man, it only remains to fill out the remain-ing incidents of his private life and those of his family.

As his name indicates he was German in genealogy, his. family coming from Prussia. German, in fact, was his vernacular, as his accent proved as long as he lived. In September,. 1825, he was married to Catharine Orr, a lady of much culture, who had long resided in Philadelphia. Their children still living are: Mary, intermarried with Dr. Mahlon Preston,. of Norristown; Frederica, wife of Dr. H. O. Witman, of Harrisburg; Anne; David, now Captain of the Fourteenth Infantry, who was during the rebellion appointed to a command: by Hon. Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War; William, the youngest, who was also appointed by Secretary Cameron, ever the fast friend of the family, to a cadetship at West Point. He

subsequently graduated with honor, and is now serving as a Lieutenant in the Third Infantry in the West.

In person Judge Krause was about the medium height, but lightly built, his whole exterior indicating a man in whom the intellectual and moral predominated over the animal and selfish. Few men had more suavity and winning manners or a kinder heart. Early in life he had entered the communion of the Reformed church, and continued a member while he lived. His early friendship with General Simon Cameron, his first partner, continued during his whole life, and the latter was in attendance at his funeral. One chapter of his life remains to be recorded. It has been stated that he was of Revolutionary lineage. Accordingly, when the rebellion broke out in 1861, there was no voice more bold or outspoken than his in denunciation of the secessionists who had drawn the sword for the propagation of slavery.

When Lee invaded our border in 1862, about the time of the battle of Antietam, he marched in the ranks to near Sharpsburg with a company hastily organized to assist in repelling 'the enemy, serving two weeks. Again, in 1863, when Governor Curtin called for "emergency men" to aid in driving back the invaders, he and a few more concerted a Sunday meeting at the court house in Norristown, and his voice with others was heard calling "To arms!" And when two companies were organized the next day, the old Judge's name, though in his sixty-third year, was booked as a private in Company I, Fortythird Regiment, in which the writer also served with him six weeks guarding mills on the Potomac. During this emergency call of Governor Curtin he performed every duty pertaining to the common soldier, kept up with "the boys" on the march, and was mustered out at Harrisburg with the regi

ment.

In 1862 the Republicans of our county were so impressed with Judge Krause's earnest loyalty that they nominated him for Congress, and he stumped the district in hearty defence of the Union cause, but the period being one of doubt and uncertainty as to the final issue of the war, he was not elected.

It only remains to say that being thus patriotic and unself

ish, and having often endorsed for friends to his hurt, he did not accumulate wealth. Shortly after coming to Norristown, however, he bought the "Whitby" house, on an eminence west of the town, which some years after he sold, and erected a cottage near the court house, where he died June 13th, 1871, in the seventy-second year of his age, universally respected. He was buried in Montgomery Cemetery. His consort survived him about four years.

The following resolution on his demise was unanimouslyadopted by the bar, accompanied by numerous feeling remarks:

Resolved, That in mourning the decease of this eminent member of our profession, we desire to record our sense of the virtues which adorned his character; that we esteemed him as a public-spirited and useful citizen; a man of kindly and generous impulses, ever ready to give aid in furtherance of benevolent works; whose genial nature and amiability of character endeared him to every circle into which he entered; and that we will ever remember him as an honest legislator, an upright judge, an able, conscientious lawyer, without guile, and without reproach.

DANIEL H. MULVANY, Esq.

And, breathing high ambition through his soul,
Set science, wisdom, glory in his view--Thomson.

Daniel H. Mulvany, a distinguished member of the Montgomery county bar, and the son of Thomas and Mary Mulvany, of Upper Merion township, was born November 12th, 1809. His mother was a Hitner. His paternal ancestry came from Ireland. Martha Davis, daughter of Arthur Davis, Esq., of Coot Hill, County Caven, a woman of great beauty and fine intellectual endowments, was his grandmother. She was intermarried with P. Mulvany, Esq. Daniel H. Mulvany received his early education under the care of Alan W. Corson and others. At the age of seventeen he went to Reading, where his scholastic course was continued for two years, at the expiration of which time he became a student in the law office of A. L. King, Esq., of that place, remaining there one

year. He returned to Montgomery county in 1829, and continued his legal studies with Hon. Philip Kendall, with whom he remained two years. He was admitted to the Montgomery county bar April 11th, 1831. Soon after his admission he became associated with the late Hon. John Freedley, who was then enjoying a very extensive practice. This arrangement

continued until near the time of the election of Governor Ritner, when his Attorney General appointed Mr. Mulvany the deputy for Montgomery county, which position he successfully filled until the election of Porter, who appointed G. Rodman Fox to supercede him.

During his official term a very remarkable case occurred. Six young railroad surveyors or engineers, some of them sons of wealthy and influential families in Philadelphia, were indicted for murder. George M. Dallas and other distinguished counsel were employed for the defence. It was a trial of intense nterest to the whole community. Mr. Mulvany felt his great responsibility as counsel for the prosecution, and, though a very young man, conducted his case so ably as not only to have the approbation of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth but also the commendation of the opposite counsel.

While holding this office he became extensively known, and had a large practice in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1837 he married Julia, daughter of Dr. Joseph Leedom, of Plymouth, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. She still survives him, and is living at Elmwood, the family mansion, in West Norristown. They had four children, all daughters: Eleanor, who died in childhood; Emma Louisa, intermarried with Dr. John C. Spear, Surgeon in the United States Navy; Julia Leedom, the third daughter, intermarried with Valentine H. Stone, United States Army, who, with her husband, died of yellow fever in 1867 at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, while he was in command of that post; Bertha Conover, the youngest daughter, died in Savannah, Georgia, in 1874, whither she had gone for her health.

Mr. Mulvany had fine intellectual endowments, a quick perception of the ideal and elegant, which at once gave him rank as a leading advocate at the bar. His temperament was