BIO: William H. MIDDLETON, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 330.
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  MIDDLETON, WILLIAM H., city solicitor of Harrisburg, was born in 
Newville, Cumberland county, Pa., January 25, 1861, son of William and 
Mary E. Middleton, the former a native of Cumberland county, Pa., the 
latter of Hagerstown, Md.  The father was born near Newville, in 1830, 
and removed to Harrisburg, where he has since been engaged in the 
manufacture of writing fluids.  For the past five years he has also 
conducted the mineral springs and summer hotel at Newville, Pa.  His 
children are:  William H.; Margaret, wife of Charles P. Lusk, coal, 
wood and ice dealer, of Harrisburg; Mollie, died in 1881, after 
reaching maturity, and two children who died in infancy.  The family 
attends the Lutheran church.  William H. when two years old removed 
with his parents to Harrisburg, where he has since been a continuous 
resident.  He was educated in the city schools, read law with Ex-Judge 
Thomas S. Hargest, was admitted to the Dauphin county bar, and was 
later admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Court, United 
States Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court, and since his 
admission has been engaged in a general practice at Harrisburg.  In 
1889 Mr. Middleton was elected a member of the school board, in which 
he served as chairman of the finance committee, and was re-elected to 
the board in 1892 and resigned.  In 1892 he was elected to the office 
of city solicitor and was re-elected in 1894.  He also was a notary 
public from 1886 to 1894.  Mr. Middleton was married, November 22, 
1888, to Laura L. Sherk, a native of Dauphin county, by whom he has one 
son, William S., born February 4, 1892.  Mr. and Mrs. Middleton attend 
the Presbyterian church.