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ARTHUR C. WADE, a prominent lawyer of Jamestown, N. Y., is a son of George L. and Jane E. (Pearson) Wade, and was born December 12, 1852, in the town of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, New York. His grandfather, George Wade, was a native and life-long resident of the town of Charlotte, where he was engaged in the occupation of farming. His marriage to a Miss Bowen resulted in the birth of eight children. Maternal grandfather Pearson was born in England, emigrated to America while yet in the vigor of life and located in the town of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, in 1828, where he finished his labors and died. At the time of his emigration to America, his daughter, the mother of Arthur C. Wade, was but eight years of age. George L. Wade (father) was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in the year 1823, emigrated to Chautauqua county when in early manhood and at present lives in the town of Ellington, where he operates a farm and carries on his trade of a mechanic. He is a republican in politics, a methodist in his religious views, and a warm supporter of religious enterprises. His marriage to Jane E. Pearson, resulted in the birth of seven children, five sons and two daughters: William, now living at Cherry Creek, this State; Jennie E., wife of Henry Irwin, a resident of Warren, Pa.; Charles E., of Pine Valley, Cattaraugus county, this State; Alfred E., a jeweler, conducting a business in Buffalo, N. Y.; John T., of Ellington, N. Y.; Lilian A., wife of Bert Willsie, a citizen of Cattaraugus county, this State; and Arthur C.

Arthur C. Wade received his elementary education in the common schools of his native county and later attended Ellington academy. Upon the completion of his education he took up the study of law with Theodore A. Case, of Ellington, with whom he remained one and one-half years. With this preliminary acquaintance of the law, in the fall of 1876, he entered the Albany law school and was graduated therefrom in May, 1877, and in June of the same year commenced the practice of law at the village of Ellington. Here he remained until January, 1883, when he removed to Jamestown, where he has since remained, being at present a partner of the legal firm of Cook, Fisher & Wade. Mr. Wade is still a young man in the midst of an active and successful professional career. He is a profound student of law, a hard worker, a skilled advocate and an eloquent pleader at the bar of justice. Aside from his legal qualifications he is a man of recognized worth and ability in the fields of politics and literature, being a political speaker of rare brilliancy and force. Personally he is a man of fine address, possessing many genial and social qualities, affable and well liked not only by the members of his profession but uniformly by the citizens of Jamestown.