Biography

12/01/1825 - 10/16/1898

KIRKPATRICK, John Milton, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, December 1, 1825 in Milton, Northumberland County, Pa.; graduated, Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College), 1846; law clerk, office of Edwin M. Stanton, Esq. (1846-1848); attorney (1848-1885); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1850, 1851, 1853); unsuccessful campaign, District Attorney, Allegheny County (1853); elected as a Democrat American to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1855 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1856 term; elected, select council, 2nd Ward, Allegheny City (1857); traveling orator; elected, District Attorney, Allegheny County (1862-1865); gubernatorial appointee, judge, Allegheny County (1868); elected, judge, Allegheny County (1869-1885, resigned); died, October 16, 1898 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.