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 | | Robert Magaw, whose name appears second, was colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania regiment during the Revolution. |
 | | His distinguished son, Robert J. Walker, United States Senator from Mississippi, elected in 1835, and Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk, was born at Northumberland in 1801, and probably rose to as high political position as any other native of Northumberland county. |
 | | Samuel Roberts, who qualified as deputy attorney general for Northumberland county, July 16, l800, resided at Sunbury, and practiced in the courts to some extent prior to that date, was born in Philadelphia, September 8, 1763, and admitted to the bar of that city in 1793. |
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