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1802 .- Robert Taylor, Jared Coffin, Jonathan Becraft, Claudius I. Delamater.
1803 .- Samuel Edmonds, William Slade, Thomas Whitlock, James I. Morrison.
1804 .- Thomas Whitlock, John Talman, James Nixon, James I. Morrison.
1805 .- Reuben Macy, Samuel I. Ten Broeck, Thomas Jenkins, Jr., Amariah Storrs.
1806 .- Samuel Edmonds, Jonathan Becraft, Oliver Wiswall, Michael M. Hallenbeck.
1807 .- William Slade, Oliver Wiswall, Michael M. Hallenbeck, Ezekiel Butler.
1808 .- Solomon Bunker, Oliver Wiswall, Ezekiel Butler, John El- ting.
1809 .- Cotton Gelston, Henry Dibblee, Claudius I. Delamater, Jona- than Becraft.
1810 .- Thomas Jenkins, William Coventry, Daniel Newbery, Michael I. Hallenbeck.
1811 .- Daniel Coffio, William Coventry, Seth Jeokins, Jonathan Race, Jr.
1812 .- Marshall Jenkins, William Slade, Ezekiel Butler.
1813 .- Thomas Power, Seth Morton, Charles Everts, Jared Fisk.
1814 .- Thomas Power, Seth Morton, Charles Everts, Thomas Whit- lock.
1815 .- John P. Jenkins, William Coventry, Stephen Gunn, Charles Everts.
1816 .- John F. Jenkins, John Elting, Stephen Gunn, Nicholas Ten Broeck.
1817 .- William G. Hubbel, Jobn Elting, Charles Everts, Seth Morton.
1818 .- William Coventry, William R. Macy, Nicholas Ton Broeck. 1819 .- William G. Hubbel, William Coventry, Michael M. Hallen- beck.
1820 .- William G. Hubbel, Fletcher M. Beckman, Juhn Elting, Charles Everts, Henry Relay, Direk Van Deusen.
1821 .- Fletcher M. Beekman, John P. Jenkins, Cornelius Benham, Dirck Van Deusen, Philip White, Henry Relay.
1822 .- Job B. Coffin, Ezekiel Butler, John Elting, Chester Bolding, Charles Everts, Thomas Whitlock.
1823 .- Fletcher M. Beekman, Joho Elting, William Wood, Robert H. Van Rensselaer, Henry Relay, William Nash.
1824 .- Ezekiel Butler, Fletcher M. Beekman. Cornelius Benham, Nicholas Ten Broeck, William Nash, Henry Relay.
1825 .- Fletcher M. Beekman, Ezekiel Butler, Cornelius Benbam, Nicholas Ten Broeck, William Nash, Silas Stone.
1826 .- Josiah I. Underhill, Ezekiel Butler, Cornelius Benham, Wil- liam Van Deusen, Seth Morton, John Haws.
1827 .- William G. Hubbel, Josiah I. Underhill, John Elting, William R. Macy, Silas Stone, William Van Deusen.
1828 .- Ezekiel Butler, Gayer Gardner, John Elting, William Van Deusen, William Nash, William R. Macy.
1829 .- Gayer Gardner, John Elting, Ezekiel Butler, William Van Deusen, Silas Stone, Charles Everts.
1830 .- Gayer Gardner, John Elting, Ezekiel Butler, Zephaniah Row- land, Solomon Wescott, Charles Everts.
1831 .- Jacob Traver, Robert MeKinstry, Cornelius Benham, Solomou Wescott, Zephaniah Rowland, Nicholas Ten Broeck.
1832 .- Robert A. Barnard, Cornelius Benbam, Jacob Traver, William G. Hubbel, Lewis Whitlock, Nicholas Ten Broeck.
1833 .- Charles Dakin, Charles H. Coleman, Cornelius Benham, Wil- liam G. Hubbel, Nicholas Ten Broeck, Lewis Whitlock.
1834 .- Amos Carpenter, Charles Dakin, Cornelius Benham, William G. Hubbel, Ansel Mckinstry, Hugh MeClellan.
1835 .- Amos Carpenter, Charles Dakin, Jonas H. Miller, William G. Hubhel, Frederick D. Gardner, Jacob C. Everts.
1836 .- William H. Coleman, Gayer Gardner, Jonas H. Miller, Hugh MoClellan, Henry Bessac, Ansel Mckinstry.
1837 .- William Hollenbeck, Jonas H. Miller, Allen Jordan, Lionel U. Lawrence, William E. Heermance, Joseph White.
1838 .- John Power, Israel Platt, Gayer Gardner, Lewis Little, Lionel U. Lawrence, Henry Hubbel.
1839 .- John Power, Israel Platt, Alexander Jenkins, Henry Hubhel, Benoni Brush, Lionel U. Lawrence.
1840 .- John Power, Alexander Jenkins, James Nash, Lionel U. Law- rence, Henry Hubbel, Benoni Brush.
1841 .- Alexander Jenkins, Lovett R. Mellen, Charles Paul, Lionel U. Lawrence, Benoni Brush, Abraham V. V. Elting.
1842 .- Charles Paul, Alfred Gifford, Peter S. Burger, William H. Coleman, Stephen W. Miller, John Westfield.
1843 .- Alexaoder Jenkins, Lovett R. Mellen, Charles Dakin, Stephen W. Miller, John Westfield, John Hardick.
1844 .- Alexander Jenkins, Charles Dakin, Philip K. Burger, Stephen W. Miller, Daniel Hoffman, John Westfield.
1845 .- Alfred Gifford, Peter S. Burger, Charles Paul, William Nash, Stephen W. Miller, Andrew Michael.
1846 .- Alexander Jenkins, Lovett R. Mellen, Peter S. Burger, Ste- phen W. Miller, William E. Heath, Joseph White.
1847 .- Darius Peck, Lovett R. Mellen, Peter S. Burger, Abrabam V. V. Elting, William E. Heath, Stephen W. Miller.
1848 .- Alfred Gifford, Lovett R. Mellen, Alexander Jenkins, Lewis Little, Hiram Gage.
1849 .- Alfred Gifford, Alexander Jenkins, Ichabod Rogers, Hiram Macy, Lewis Little, Stephen W. Miller.
1850 .- William H. Clark, Israel Platt, Alexander Jenkins, Hiram Macy, William Nash, Abel Bullock.
1851 .- George Barker, Alexander Jenkins, Alfred Gifford, Abel Bul- lock, Stephen W. Miller, Charles Mitchell.
1852 .- Robert B. Monell, Stephen Waterman, William H. Clark, Ahel Bullock, William Nash, Stephen W. Miller.
1853 .- George Barker, Charles Paul, Henry Hubbel, Wm. Nash, Abel Bullock, Lewis Little.
1854 .- Alfred Gifford, Stephen Waterman, Joseph White.
1855 .- William Nasb.
1856 .- Allen Reynolds.
1858 .- Alfred Gifford, Chas. Darling.
1859 .- Joseph White.
1860 .- Charles Darling.
1861 .- Henry llubbel.
1862 .- Joseph White.
1863 .- Charles Darling.
1864 .- Peter S. Burger. 1865 .- Joseph White.
1866 .- Charles Darling.
1867 .- Peter S. Burger, Jacob Traver.
1868 .- Casper V. H. Morrison.
1869 .- Denison Hedges.
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1870 .- Peter S. Burger.
1871 .- George L. Little.
1872 .- Denison Hedges.
1873 .- Charles Mitehell.
1874 .- Benjamin F. Deuell, George L. Little.
1875 .- Alexander W. Wilson.
1876 .- George L. Little, Benjamin F. Deuell, Alexander W. Wilson. 1877 .- George L. Little, Alexander W. Wilson, Thomas W. Power.
POLICE JUSTICES.
1854 .- James K. Van Ness.
1870 .- Elijah Payn.
1856-58 .- John Crissey.
1872 .- Myron Van Deusen.
1860 .- Robert B. Storm.
1873-75 .- John II. Overhiser.
1862-64 .- John B. Longley.
1876 .- Charles A. Baurhyte.
1866 .- John Crissey. 1876-78 .- John II. Overhiser.
1868 .- Robert B. Storm.
COMMISSIONERS OF EXCISE.
1873 .- Alex. W. Wilson, Maurice Woulfe, Allen W. Seaman. 1874 .- William R. Steel, Manfred A. Howard.
1876 .- Charles I. Winans. 1876 .- Abm. G. Voshurgh, Abijah C. Stevens, Thomas A. Beekman. 1877 .- Thomas A. Beekman, Abram G. Vosburgh, Abijah C. Stevens. 1878 .- Thomas A. Beekman, Abraham G. Vosbnrgh, Abijah C. Stevens.
CHIEF OF POLICE.
1873-78 .- Almon Snyder.
POPULATION.
The population of Hudson, as enumerated at different periods, has been as follows : in 1790, 2584; 1800, 3664; 1810, 4048; 1814, 4725; 1820, 5310; 1825, 5004; 1830, 5392; 1840 (with Stockport and Greenport off ), 5672; 1845, 5667; 1850, 6286; 1855, 6720; 1860, 7265; 1865, 7831; 1875, 8784. The assessed valua- tion of the city is given in the census report of 1875 as $5,102,280.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
HON. THEODORE MILLER,
one of the judges of the court of appeals of this State, is a native of Hudson, N. Y., in which city he was born on the 16th day of May, 1816. He is descended, on the paternal side, from a Holland family who came to this country in company with the Van Rensselaers, about 1650, and set- tled in Albany, N. Y. They afterwards moved to Clav- erack, Columbia Co., where their descendants have since resided.
His father, the late Cornelius Miller, was an eminent lawyer of his time, and had for his contemporaries and associates in practice Martin Van Buren, Elisha Williams, William W. Van Ness, and other prominent statesmen and jurists of that day. Born in Claveraek in 1787, he grad- uated at Columbia College, in the city of New York, and entered upon an unusually brilliant professional and public career, being an active politician, a fine orator, and a gen- tleman of liberal culture and of a wide range of expe- rience. During a portion of his professional life he prac- ticed law in partnership with Hon. Martin Van Buren.
At the time of his death, in 1822, he held the office of clerk of Columbia county,-an office at that time conferred by gubernatorial appointment, and indicative of the confi- dence and trust reposed in the recipient. He (Cornelius Miller) married Beulah Hathaway, daughter of John Hath- away, of Hudson, N. Y., a man of wealth and high social standing. The death of Mr. Miller at an early age closed a career of unusually brilliant promise.
His son, Theodore, inherited all his eminent qualities to a remarkable degree. Admitted to the bar early in life, with but little means at his command save a thorough edu- cation, an indomitable will, and a mind and habits well suited to his profession, by industry, hard study, and per- severance he gradually won his way to the front rank of his profession.
At the very outset of his legal eareer he was placed in circumstances well calculated to test not merely his abilities as a lawyer, but his courage, fidelity, and energy, and all the higher qualities of manly character. In 1843 he was appointed, by the old court of common pleas, district attor- ney for Columbia county, the principal theatre of the anti- rent conflict, which at that period involved the most serious local difficulties ever encountered by the judiciary. He was then young, and inexperienced in his profession in the higher courts, but the duties of his office as district attor- ney required him to confront this formidable insurrection against law and order, and bring to justice its perpetrators. So well did he perform his duties during this stormy and trying time in the criminal history of the county that he came out of the ordeal with unlimited approbation. Not only did he sustain the test of the grave and weighty re- sponsibilities which this critical state of affairs imposed upon him, but gained an experience and prestige which marked an era in his professional life.
From that time forward he successfully pursued the best walks of his profession industriously, energetically and ably performing its varied duties until, in 1861, he had estab- lished so high a character for devotion to his profession, ability in its practice, and integrity and purity as a man, that he was called by the appreciative voice of the Third Judicial district of the State to be the associate of Judges Peekham, Hogeboom, and Gould, as a justice of the Su- preme Court of the State of New York.
His ripe experience in all the various contested litigations into which a busy practice of nearly twenty years had thrown him had eminently fitted him for his new and responsible situation. This fitness was fully recognized and expressed in the popular vote by which his nomination on the Demo- cratic ticket was ratified at the polls. His county, which a year before had gone one thousand Republican, gave him about two thousand five hundred majority ; the city of Hud- son-polling about twelve hundred votes, and usually Re- publican-gave him over eight hundred majority, and this although a very able and estimable lawyer was a candidate against him. He was triumphantly eleeted, and carried to the bench the same habits of careful study and of pains- taking research which had characterized him at the bar. His opinions soon began to attract attention. They were logical, learned, and exhaustive, critical in analysis and comprehen- sive in reasoning. At the circuit he shirked no labor,
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slighted no cause. Kind and courteous to all, yet ever fearless and unswerving in following his convictions, he came to be regarded and cited as the model of an honest, upright judge. His administration was universally satis- factory and successful.
Speaking of the character of Judge Miller as a justice of the Supreme Court, the Albany Argus, of Oct. 3, 1870, says, " The young men of the bar found in him a judge who heard them patiently and respectfully, and from whose presence they went away satisfied that, whatever might be the fate of their cases, they had a fair and respectful hear- ing, and would have an honest, intelligent decision."
After eight years' service as justice of the Supreme Court, Judge Miller was re-elected in the fall of 1869 without opposition. In 1870, upon the reorganization of the courts under the new judiciary system, he was appointed chief-justice of the general term of the Third Judical de- partment, embracing some twenty-eight counties, with Jus- tices Potter and Parker as his associates. This brought him face to face with a professional constituency extending over half of the State.
In this new and responsible field the administration of Judge Miller won universal commendation. His ability and impartiality disarmed criticism, while under his admin- istration, with the heavy calendars of the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Judicial districts thrown upon them, there was scarcely one general term at which any suitor had not an opportunity to bring his cause on to argument. When speedy justice was not done, it was not the fault of the general term over which Judge Miller presided.
At the Democratic State convention, held in Syracuse, in the fall of 1874, Judge Miller was placed in nomination for judge of the court of appeals,-the highest and most important judicial tribunal of the State. It may be well here to remark that the court of appeals of the State of New York was organized under the new judiciary system in 1870, with Hon. Sanford E. Church, chief judge ; Wil- liam F. Allen, Martin Grover, Rufus W. Peckham, Charles A. Rapallo, Charles Andrews, and Charles J. Folger, asso- ciate judges. Thus composed, the court proceeded to busi- ness in July, 1870, and its labors thenceforward have been incessant, questions of great importance being submitted for final decision. Principles of law and of government reaching far into the future, and the establishment of pre- cedents which cannot be easily set aside, are continually arising for adjudication and settlement, and the decision of these questions, often involving great labor and learning, is the legitimate work of the court of appeals. Hence the great responsibility and labor of its bench. An idea of the extent and variety of the questions submitted for its deei- sion may be gathered from the fact that this court hears and decides more than six hundred cases annually. In a recent able historical review of the proceedings of this court we find the following remark : " Beyond dispute, the New York court of appeals stands to-day second only in importance, and at least equal in ability, to the chief na- tional tribunal at Washington."
Judge Miller was nominated to fill the first vacancy on the bench of the court of appeals, occasioned by the death of Judge Peckham. Ile was brought before the conven-
tion by a son of the late judge, Hon. Rufus W. Peckham, of Albany, who paid a just and eloquent tribute to the character and services of Judge Miller, which was responded to by his unanimous nomination. Judge Elias J. Beach, in seconding the nomination, said he thought it " peculiarly fit and appropriate that Mr. Peckham, a leading prac- titioner from the Third Judicial district, and a son of the late Judge Peckham, whose sudden death, so deeply lamented by the whole profession, had caused the vacancy in the highest court of the State about to be filled, should present the name of a man who should so fully meet the standard of excellence which his filial attachment must necessarily demand of one voluntarily sought as the official successor of his deceased father."
Upon his nomination, the leading papers of both political parties approved the action of the convention. Said the Albany Evening Journal, " During the services of Judge Miller upon the bench, he has discharged its duties with fidelity, integrity, and impartiality, in the highest degree creditable. His knowledge of the law is comprehensive, and the bent of his mind eminently judicial. The party could not do otherwise than recognize such conspienous merit."
The favorable opinions so unanimously expressed of Judge Miller's merits as a jurist were effectively indorsed at the autumn election by a majority of over fifty thousand in the State. In his own county his majority was about the same as that received at his first election to the Supreme Court in 1861, showing that, as a candidate for the higher judicial office, his popularity had not depreciated among those most intimately acquainted with him.
Ilis career in the court of appeals has been active and influential, and his labors unremitting. Enabled by his thorough training and discipline to dispose of a vast amount of work, he and his associates have succeeded in disposing of the accumulations on the docket, so that now, at each term, every case ready for argument can be heard and de- cided.
His opinions are found scattered through eighty odd volumes of Supreme Court reports, which have been pub- lished sinee he took his place on the bench, and some ten volumes of reports of the court of appeals, since his con- nection with the latter, settling grave and important ques- tions, which are cited and followed in every court and in almost every case. His opinions have been characterized by a competent critic as remarkable specimens of clearness and simplicity of style, without any straining at effect or indulgence in brilliant metaphor. His thoughts are crys- tallized in plain, forcible language, and his opinions abound in evidences of deep study and careful and comprehensive knowledge of the subject upon which they are rendered.
A distinguished judge, now deccased (Judge Strong), tersely summed up Judge Miller's qualifications thus : " He has one of the best balanced judicial minds in the State." Quick, active, both in faculty and temperament, he is at the same time calm and reflective. Being of a re- markably active mind, the rapidity with which he often reaches results is no evidence of a want of thoroughness or of a hasty judgment; on the contrary, his wide range of available information and mental activity enable him to
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generalize rapidly and at the same time accurately. One of the most marked peculiarities of his mental organization is his power of concentration, by which he is enabled to write and carry on a conversation at the same time.
Although an active and sagacious politician, especially in the early part of his life, he has always subordinated poli- tics to business, and accepted no office except in the line of his profession. A personal friend and associate of Mr. Van Buren, he affiliated with the Free-soil branch of the Democ- racy in 1848. At the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861 he earnestly espoused the Union cause, and deliv- ercd the first address made in Columbia county in favor of the vigorous prosecution of the war. He has always been a Democrat, and has adhered firmly to the principles of the party, but he has never been a mere partisan nor an office-seeker. Since the commencement of his judicial ca- reer he has participated but little in politics. Yet he is
middle of the seventeenth century, they emigrated to America ; some of them settling on the Hudson at King- ston and Rhinebeck, in which latter place the subject of this notice was born and was a merchant for many years. The earlier part of his life, up to forty-seven years of age, was spent at Rhinebeck, where he took a prominent part in the general affairs of the village and community, being one of the principal founders of the academy, and sup- porters of the Reformed Dutch church at that place.
On the 8th of December, 1830, Mr. Du Bois was united in marriage to Rachel A. Schryver, of Rhinebeck.
In 1851 he removed to Hudson, N. Y., where he re- sided till the time of his death, and was a successful financier and banker. In 1855 he first became connected with the Hudson River Bank as a director, and subse- quently, on the retirement of Judge Barnard, was chosen its president, which office he hield during the remainder of
STEPHEN AUGUSTUS DUBOIS.
the only citizen of Columbia county, since Mr. Van Buren, who has been elected to a State office.
Judge Miller married Alice E., daughter of Peyton N. Farrell, Esq., of Greenport, Columbia Co., N. Y. By this union he has had five children, two of whom are now living, viz .: Margaret Miller and Peyton F. Miller, who is a lawyer and engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Albany, N. Y.
While this brief sketch is being written (July, 1878), Judge Miller, with a portion of his family, is absent in Europe, seeking rest and recuperation from his exhausting labors.
STEPHEN AUGUSTUS DUBOIS
was born at Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N. Y., on the 21st of January, 1804. His ancestors were originally French Huguenots, who settled in Holland, whence, about the 27
his life. In his capacity of director and president of the bank he was tireless in his endeavors to promote its welfare.
Mr. Du Bois was a man of scrupulous honesty and integ- rity. He aided many men in their business by loaning them money on liberal terms, never exacting usury, but often taking less than legal interest. Possessing ample pecuniary resources, he was in his own way, and without caring to have his benefactions made public, liberal towards every proper objeet which commended itself to his sympa- thies and judgment. He was seldom, if ever, called upon in vain for aid to any worthy charity. He was warm- hearted and enduring in his friendship, kind and affection- ate in his family, and courteous and agreeable in his social and business intercourse. For these and other excellent qualities he was highly esteemed and respected by a large eirele of friends and acquaintances.
The entire life of Mr. Du Bois was passed at Rhinebeck and Hudson, except that in the year 1869 he spent six
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months in Europe. Joining his son, his only child, who had been studying in Paris, he visited Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, afterwards making a tour through England, Scotland, and Ireland, and returning home in November of that year. This was a great event in his quiet life, and one which he fully enjoyed.
Mr. DuBois died on the 31st day of December, 1869, and his remains were laid by the side of his beloved wife, in the family lot at Rhinebeck.
HON. JACOB W. HOYSRADT.
Among the active business men who have gained a prom- inent and influential place in the affairs of the city of Hud- son may be mentioned the gentleman whose name heads this brief biographical notice.
Mr. Hoysradt was born in the town of Ancram, Co- lumbia Co., N. Y., March 8, 1824. A portion of his early life was spent as a clerk in a general country store at Valatie, in this county, and also as a clerk in the city of Albany. In the spring of 1845 he commenced operations, in the employ of Mr. C. C. Alger, in the manufacture of pig iron, at Berkshire, Mass., in which capacity he remained about five years. The Hudson Iron Company being formed in 1849, he came in the spring of 1850, with Mr. Alger, to this city, and was associated with the latter in the manage- ment of the Hudson Iron Works till 1864-a period of fourteen years of active and successful experience, requiring talents and business qualifications of a high order. Upon the retirement of Mr. Alger, in 1864, Mr. Hoysradt was, by unanimous consent of the directors and stockholders, chosen general manager of the company, and has filled the position in a very efficient and satisfactory manner ever since. In 1868 he was elected president of the Hudson Iron Com- pany, which responsible office, together with the general supervision and direction of the business, he continues still to hold. It is sufficient evidence of Mr. Hoysradt's ability in these positions to say that under his efficient manage- ment the Hudson Iron Works have been prosperous, not- withstanding the great depression in this branch of manu- facture throughout the country generally since the panic of 1873. He is known as a thorough business man, and has been actively identified with most of the leading interests of the city since he came to reside here. Proba- bly no man has done more to build up the industrial and financial welfare of the place than has Mr .. Hoysradt dur- ing the period since he commenced operations in this city, and his character as a man and a citizen is in full accord with his eminent business qualifications and successes.
He has been an earnest Republican since 1856, and has taken an active part not only in local politics, but to some extent in the general political movements of the State and nation. In 1868 he was a delegate to the National Repub- lican convention held at Chicago, and was also a delegate to the National Republican convention at Cincinnati, in 1876.
In the fall of 1858 he was elected mayor of the city of Hudson, and served during the years 1859 and 1860. He was again elected to the same office in 1866, and served during the two following years. For eight years-from
1869 to 1877-he was postmaster of the city of Hudson, and resigned at the expiration of the latter time. For the. past two years Mr. Hoysradt has held the office of presi- dent of the Farmers' National Bank of Hudson,-a position indicative of the confidence reposed in his financial abilities by the directors of that institution.
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