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Halsted was a prominent lawyer in New Jersey and friend of Samuel Seward. SSS laments that he has no "Job S. Halsted" to help him with an investment opportunity in Tioga in 18311114SSS_WHS1.

"He was admitted to the bar in 1795, and as counselor in 1798, and shortly after his admission he removed to Newton, N.J., where for nearly half a century he practiced his profession and performed the duties of a good citizen with exemplary faithfulness...In 1832, as a member of the National Committee, he cordially joined in nominating Henry Clay for the Presidency, and he remained to the last an earnest friend and advocate of the Statesman of the West. He died April 13, 1844. His wife was Ann McIntire, who was born at Coleraine, near Londonderry, Ireland, March 7, 1782, came to Philadelphia with her widowed mother married June 10, 1805. She died Sept. 28, 1838."

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Halsted was a prominent lawyer in New Jersey and friend of Samuel Seward. SSS laments that he has no "Job S. Halsted" to help him with an investment opportunity in Tioga in 18311114SSS_WHS1. "He was admitted to the bar in 1795, and as counselor in 1798, and shortly after his admission he removed to Newton, N.J., where for nearly half a century he practiced his profession and performed the duties of a good citizen with exemplary faithfulness...In 1832, as a member of the National Committee, he cordially joined in nominating Henry Clay for the Presidency, and he remained to the last an earnest friend and advocate of the Statesman of the West. He died April 13, 1844. His wife was Ann McIntire, who was born at Coleraine, near Londonderry, Ireland, March 7, 1782, came to Philadelphia with her widowed mother married June 10, 1805. She died Sept. 28, 1838."
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