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trict. Judge Eccleston died in 1860, and Brice
John Goldsborough of Dorchester County was ap-
pointed in his place, to hold until the next election,
and was later elected.

It was fortunate for Judge Bartol that the ten-
year term on which he started in 1857 was to
carry him through the vicissitudes of the Civil
War. He was a careful, even-tempered man,
with a good mind, and a broad comprehension
of the law; and he was a satisfying judge. He
had graduated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania,
with honors, and was especially well trained in
ancient languages and literature; and it is always
remarked of him that throughout his later life
he kept up his skill and reading in that domain
to an unusual degree. The first seven years of
his professional career he spent at Denton, Caro-
line County, and then he removed to Bel Air,
Harford County, and later to Baltimore County
and City. Early in his practice he had gained
an unusual position among lawyers by his
professional ability and careful judgment, and
had come to be much used as an arbitrator. And
when in 1851 Albert Constable, of Cecil County,
who had-been a busy practicing lawyer, had been
elected judge of the sixth judicial circuit, includ-
ing Baltimore, Harford and Cecil Counties, and
it had become necessary to have a special judge sit
in the many cases in which he had been employed
as attorney, and so, was disqualified as a judge,
the local bar united in a unanimous request that
Bartol be made the special judge. And Governor
Ligon, in 1857, appointed him to the Court of
Appeals without any solicitation.