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SAMUEL H. HIGH, one of the most active and reliable of the younger members of the Montgomery county bar, located at No. 325 Swede street, Norristown, was born in that city July 16, 1875. He is the son of Harry S. and Flora B. (Lightcap) High, also of Norristown. They had five children born to them, four sons and one daughter, four now living: Mamie, wife of Henry L. Stiles, of Philadelphia; Harrison L., deceased; Walter L., of Philadelphia, secretary of the Reading Screw Company; Samuel H., of Norristown; Raymond, of Philadelphia.

The father is a carpenter and builder and has lived all his life in Norristown. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Trinity, in which he is an elder. He is very domestic in his tastes, and quiet and unostentatious in his manners. He was always an ardent Democrat but not an office seeker.

Samuel High (grandfather) was a lifelong resident of Montgomery county. He was a dry goods merchant on Main street for many years. He died in Norristown at an advanced age, and had three children. The maternal grandfather of Samuel H. High was Samuel Lightcap. He was a native of Pottstown, where he spent the early part of his life, and later removed to Milwaukee, after his wife’s death, and lived with one of his sons until his death, which occurred when he was upwards of seventy years of age. His wife was Mary Lightcap. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and had a small family.

Samuel H. High attended the public schools of Norristown, graduating from the high school in 1891. He then had a private tutor for one year, and entered Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, graduating in 1896 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then took up the study of law under William F. Dannehower, and was admitted to the bar July 1, 1899, and opened an office at once in Norristown. His present home is at Jenkintown, where he has lived the past few years.

Mr. High is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Trinity, Norristown. He belongs to Norristown Lodge No. 620, Free and Accepted Masons, and to the Jenkintown Lodge of Odd Fellows. Politically he is a Democrat, like all members of his family, but has never sought or held office.