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HON. THOMAS J. BALDRIGE, judge of the Common Pleas Court of Blair County, has
been identified with the legal profession of this county since 1895, and was
born April 5, 1872, in Hollidaysburg, Pa., a son of Howard M. Baldrige, a
prominent attorney of Blair County.
     Judge Baldrige received a common school education and then attended
Andover. & Bucknel University, and after spending some time on the government
engineer corps, took a special course in law at the University of
Pennsylvania.  He was admitted to the bar of Blair County in 1895, and has
been located at Hollidaysburg, Pa., in the practice of the profession since
that time, and in January, 1910, was appointed common pleas judge to fill the
unexpired term of the late Judge Bell, and has made a most favorable
impression on the Bench.
     Judge Baldrige is religiously a member of the Baptist church of which he
is one of the board of trustees.