Smith, Charles
lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 4, 1765, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became president judge in 1819 of the judicial district composed of the counties of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams; and in 1820 of the newly formed district court of Lancaster city and county. His later life was spent in Philadelphia. He was appointed by the legislature in 1810 to revise the laws of the state, and to frame a compilation of them, which he published with a Treatise on the Land Laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes.
He died March 18, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.