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NATHAN WILLIAMS was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, December 19, 1773. He removed to Utica about 1797, and was the first lawyer to settle perma- nently in Utica. He was district attorney for the sixth district of the state from 1801 to 1803. He also served in the same capacity for Oneida county from 1818 to 1821. He was elected a representative in Congress in 1805, and was an assemblyman in 1816-18-19; was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1821, and was appointed judge of the circuit court in April, 1823, but resigned that position some years afterward, and removed to Geneva, N. Y. While re- siding there he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court. He died September 25, 1835.
OTHNIEL S. WILLIAMS was the son of Othniel Williams, and was born at Killingworth, Conn., November 22, 1813. He removed with his father to Water- ville, N. Y., in 1814, and to Clinton in 1820. In his fourteenth year he entered the sophomore class of Hamilton College, and graduated in 1831. For two years he was a tutor in the family of Mr. Gibson in Virginia. In the fall of 1836 he returned from Virginia, and was admitted as an attorney in 1837, and as a counselor in 1840. On September 6, 1843, he married Delia, the daughter of Professor Charles Avery of Hamilton College. For a time he was an instructor in modern languages in the college, and showed great proficiency in French, Spanish and Italian. Mr. Williams was appointed judge of the court of common
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pleas in 1846, and in 1847 he was made a trustee of Hamilton College. After the new constitution of the state was adopted in 1848 he was elected surrogate of Oneida county, and re-elected in 1852. In 1850 he was made the treasurer of Hamilton College, and retained this position until his death. In 1871 he received the degree of LL.D. During many years of his life he was identified with many public charities, business corporations and enterprises for the ad- vancement of his town and county. He was a promoter of the Utica, Clinton & Binghamton Railroad, one of its directors, its vice president, and for many years, and up to his death, he was its president. He took great interest in college affairs, and was one of the founders of the Alpha Delta Phi society. At a meeting of the Oneida county bar held after the death of Mr. Williams, Pro- fessor Theodore W. Dwight said of him, "He was not only honest, able and patriotic, but a good lawyer." Mr. Williams was a careful and painstaking lawyer, well versed in the principles of law, conscientious and fair in his prac- tice, and when called upon to render decisions as judge, surrogate or referee he did it intelligently, fairly, and was seldom reversed upon appeal. He died having the respect of the entire bar of Central New York.
JOHN C. DAVIES was born in Utica, January 19, 1858. He was educated in public schools and seminaries, and graduated from Hamilton College Law school. He was admitted to the bar, and opened a law office in Camden in 1879, where he has since resided. In 1885 he was elected to the New York Assembly. In 1894 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General by Theodore E. Hancock, Attorney General of the State; he held this position for five years. In 1898 he was elected Attorney General of the State and reelected two years thereafter. During his services as Attorney General many im- portant questions came up to be cared for in his department of the state. He was in close touch with Governor Roosevelt and Governor Odell, with whom he was associated as a state officer. He was nominated for justice of the Supreme Court in 1902, but was defeated in consequence of a division in the Republican party. In 1894 Mr. Davies was elected a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and served on important committees in that dis- tinguished body. In 1905 he was appointed a member of the State Gas and Electric Commission. Mr. Davies married Elma B. Dorrance, daughter of John G. Dorrance, of Camden, September 8, 1890, and they have five chil- dren: Margery Ellen, born September 26, 1891; Gladys Esther, born Jan- uary 16, 1893; John Dorrance, born October 1, 1896; Russell Johnson, born March 30, 1902; and Theodore Roosevelt, May 29, 1903.
WILLIAM E. SCRIPTURE, one of the justices of the Supreme court of the fifth judicial district, was born November 2, 1843, in Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., and was a son of Parker A. Scripture and Harriet Standish Snow. He was educated at Whitestown seminary and Hamilton college, studied law at the Albany Law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He then entered the office of Beach & Bailey in Rome as managing clerk. In 1868 he opened an office in Canastota in partnership with a Mr. Hutchins, but in the fall of that year he returned to Rome and commenced practice in that city. He afterward had as a partner Homer T. Fowler, and for a time he had as partners George
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H. Weaver, E. M. Pavey, and Oswald P. Backus. He at once acquired a large law practice, and was extremely successful in the trial of cases at the circuit. Any lawyer who had occasion to try a case against him found very soon he had an antagonist worthy of the steel of almost any person at the bar. His ability to grasp the facts and to present the salient ones to a jury was remarkable. His memory was excellent, and, without making copious notes of the evidence, he was able to recall every important fact in a case, even though it might take days or even weeks to adduce the evidence. He was appointed postmaster of Rome by President Harrison, and served until he was nominated for Supreme court in 1895. He was elected and served fourteen years, was renominated, but defeated through the influence of the corporations of the district. Since he ceased to be judge he has practiced his profession in Rome. He was married to Emma C. Goodwin in August, 1867, and has had seven children, May Stan- dish, Mina E., Ella G., Emma C., Ruth, Parker F., and William E., Jr., two of whom, Emma C. and Ruth are now dead.
PASCAL C. J. DEANGELIS was born in Holland Patent, January 27, 1850. He was the son of William W. and Elizabeth Burlingame DeAngelis, and grand- son of Pascal C. J. DeAngelis, one of the earliest settlers in the town of Tren- ton. His grandfather took part in the naval service of the Revolutionary war, was captured by the British and confined in Dartmoor prison. Young De- Angelis was prepared for college at Cary seminary, Oakfield, and entered Ho- bart in the class of 1871. He left Hobart and entered Cornell university in the same class, and graduated from that institution in 1871 with the degree of A. B. He then read law at Towanda, Pa., and was admitted to the bar in 1873. He was admitted in New York state in 1875, and commenced practice in Utica. He was for a time a law partner with William A. Matteson, under the firm name of Matteson & DeAngelis. He acquired a good practice, was counsel for some large institutions, and so commended himself to the public that in 1896 he was nominated and elected justice of the Supreme court. Judge De- Angelis was manager of the State Lunatic asylum, now the State hospital, for seven years, from 1886 to 1893; was one of the school commissioners of the city of Utica for two terms, 1900-1906. He married Annie, daughter of Wil- liam B. Jackson of Utica, and has four children: Pascal C. J .; Charles, Mar- shall and Annena.
In a class with these men who filled high official positions are many others who, perhaps, by reason of natural gifts, acquirements and conscientiousness were their equals, but who never sought, or, if they sought, never obtained high judicial office. Such were John G. Crocker, John H. Edmunds of Utica; G. Harrison Lynch of Rome, and others.
There was also a large class of lawyers who may be called all-round prac- titioners. They were well equipped in most branches of the law, and having a general practice they had no time, and perhaps no inclination to devote energy enough to any particular branch to excel in it and thereby gain fame. They chose to cover a large field and stand well in many branches of the practice. In this class of honorable men are: George W. Adams, Daniel Ball, Joseph R. Swan, Peter Davies, Alexander T. Goodwin, Richard McIncrow, Eaton J. Rich-
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ardson, Joel Willard, N. Curtis White, Robert O. Jones and Leslie W. Kernan of Utica; K. Carroll, Edward L. Stevens, Henry O. Southworth, Charles N. White of Rome; Walter Ballou and Leander W. Fisk of Boonville; George K. Carroll and Stephen Cromwell of Camden; Joseph S. Avery and James Mc- Cabe of Clinton; Sylas L. Snyder of Taberg; and Edwin Lamb of Waterville.
After entering the profession most men soon discover that some certain branch of the law suits them better than others, and they seek its pursuit. This has in the past, and will in the future, cause a large number to devote them- selves to what may be called the commercial side of the profession. These at- torneys never devote themselves to study sufficiently to become very learned in the law. They, instead, give their time to business transactions, becoming ac- quainted with men, and looking up law business, and in these pursuits they are very effective. Their advice is sought as to the expediency of purchasing prop- erty, making investments, entering into contracts, undertaking business enter- prises, but not often upon difficult questions of law. Foremost in this class was Orsamus B. Matteson, who, in his prime, was one of the most efficient business men that the city of Utica has ever known. It is probable that the largest com- mercial law business ever done by any firm in the county was by Matteson & Doolittle, of which partnership Charles H. Doolittle was the junior member. It was a popular saying of the day that "Matteson knew how to get the business, and Doolittle knew how to do it."
Then there were Edward Brayton, James W. Bond, George Clarence Church- ill, Charles M. Dennison, Henry A. Doolittle, Edmond A. Graham, Hiram Hurl- burt, Burton D. Hurlburt, Arthur B. Johnson, Nicholas E. Kernan, James F. Mann, Addison C. Miller and Andrew J. McIntosh. Among this number are some of the most esteemed citizens of the community. Some of them, by their capacity in grasping business propositions, accumulated fortunes in a legitimate way, and not by blind pools, illegal combinations of corporate interests, or ac- cidental success in speculation. Who would ask for better advisors in ordinary business transactions than Addison C. Miller or Nicholas E. Kernan? So might I ask in regard to others of the number who acted well their parts as business men.
In passing over the list, names suggest to us faces of those we once saw on our streets, but which no longer appear. They lived, as most men do, with- out accomplishing any great result, but some of them led conscientious and pure lives and are entitled to our lasting respect. There were William R. Anthony, Rufus C. Baker, Charles L. DeGeorgia, John D. Griffith, James F. Hurley, Mor- vin M. Jones, William J. Kernan, Rutger B. Miller, Jr., Eugene Stearns, Rich- ard Schroeppel, Elakin J. Stoddard, Isaac J. Tripp and J. Frank Rogers of Utica; James Parks, Stephen VanDresar, Joseph Porter and Delos M. White of Rome, and James W. Cummings of Clinton.
There has been during the last quarter century a class of lawyers among us which may be called sui generis. Among these were O. Arthur White, Patrick F. Bulger, Charles J. Everett, Thomas E. Kinney and David C. Wolcott.
We have had also another class of attorneys which may be called only trial lawyers. They were always at the circuit, and their business consisted largely
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of the trial of ordinary cases and of criminal practice. No circuit or trial term of a criminal court was held during their respective lives except that conspicu- ous among the members of the bar in attendance were Dexter E. Pomeroy, J. Thomas Spriggs of Utica; Milton D. Barnett, Daniel C. Pomeroy and Joseph I. Sayles of Rome. Of these, in ordinary trials, particularly for the defense, Mr. Spriggs easily outclassed the others. Possessed of a genial disposition, great shrewdness, and having a fair equipment of general acquirements, but little knowledge of the law, he was always a dangerous adversary before a jury. He possessed the power to discern quickly the weak points of his antagonist upon questions of fact, and used them to the very best advantage. For the plaintiff, or for the defense in a criminal case where the crime was murder or some other of great magnitude, Daniel C. Pomeroy ranked high in the class. He made no pretense of having a thorough knowledge of the law; he trusted this part of the practice to others, but in arousing the sympathies or prejudices of a jury he was ever effective. In presenting his case to the jury he was always inter- esting, and at times his speech rose to real eloquence.
From the fact that during the last thirty-six years four men have prac- ticed at the Oneida bar, who attained greater reputation than any others, we are constrained to class them by themselves. Three were United States senators, and the fourth a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Francis Kernan, Ward Hunt, Henry A. Foster and Roscoe Conkling.
A marked change has occurred in regard to the practice of the law within the last quarter of a century. Many questions which gave rise to litigation have been settled, and business men have become wiser in the present day than they were in the past in regard to litigation. Lawyers of the first class advise settlement wherever it is possible, and this has had a marked effect upon the number of cases litigated. Many years ago assault and battery and other like cases were tried at almost every term of the court. Now they are substantially unknown, and litigation over such matters has almost ceased. There has, however, been a large increase of litigation in a direction that was not fre- quent until recent times, i. e., damage suits against railroad companies and other large corporations. Many of these suits have little merit, and are fre- quently tried by lawyers who do not stand well at the bar. A new term has been invented to designate these lawyers, and they are known to the profes- sion as "ambulance chasers." As an illustration of the methods pursued by this class of lawyers one will suffice. A short time since a man was killed near Utica on the New York Central Railroad. He was a resident of Utica, and before his body was buried twelve lawyers called at the house and tendered their valuable (?) services to the widow in her great distress. The lawyers came from as far west as Buffalo, and as far east as Albany. This was so an- noying that it was found necessary to deny admittance to the house any man unless he was known to the family of the deceased. The presiding judge of the appellate division of the Supreme Court invariably, before a class is sworn in after examination for admission to the bar, warns them against this kind of law practice. It can be said of the bar of Oneida county that it can con- gratulate itself upon the fact that few of its members can be placed in this class. It can also be safely said of the bar of Oneida county that at the pres-
PHILO GRIDLEY Justice Supreme Court
MILTON H. MERWIN Justice Supreme Court
ALFRED C. COXE Judge of the United States Cir cuit Court, Second Circuit
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WILLIAM E. SCRIPTURE Justice Supreme Court
PASCAL C. J. DE ANGELIS Justice Supreme Court
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ent time, as well as in the past, it ranks among the foremost of the state both as to ability and moral worth. The members of this noble profession within our favored county have faithfully protected the rights of the plaintiff and de- fendant, and have endeavored, to the best of their ability, to have justice meted out to parties litigant. At the close of this year, there are within the county 207 practicing attorneys, who are located as follows: Boonville, 6; Cam- den, 6; Clinton, 1; Holland Patent, 2; Lee Center, 1; Remsen, 1; Rome, 40; Utica, 144; Vernon, 1; Waterville, 5.
HENRY J. COGGESHALL was born April 28, 1845, at Waterville; was educated in the Waterville seminary; studied law in that village, was admitted to the bar and commenced practicing there. He very early entered politics, and gave very little attention after that to his profession. He was at first assistant dis- trict attorney; was elected to the legislature in 1872; to the office of county clerk in 1879, and in 1883 was elected to the state senate, in which capacity he served for about twenty years, having been a member of the legislature longer than any other person who ever resided in Oneida county. He was a Republi- can, and was elected by that party except on one occasion. He was defeated for the nomination for senator in the Republican convention; bolted the con- vention; was nominated by the bolters; adopted by the Democratic party, and elected against Frederick G. Weaver, the regular Republican candidate. He was very successful in procuring the passage of bills concerning local affairs. He was personally friendly with his political opponents as well as with Repub- licans, and would do anything he consistently could for a resident of his dis- trict, whether friend or foe. He was one of the best platform speakers in the state, and his services were in great demand in every political canvass. He was eloquent and persuasive rather than argumentative, and had a view of humor that enabled him, if he so elected, to keep an audience in roars of laughter dur- ing an entire evening. He had not accumulated money, and died, virtually without means.
Following is a list of all the judicial officers from Oneida county from its organization to 1912:
CHIEF JUSTICES SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
John Savage, January 29, 1823.
Greene C. Bronson, March 5, 1845.
Samuel Beardsley, June 29, 1847. He served as puisne justice from Febru- ary 20, 1844.
JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
Nathan Williams, April 21, 1823. Samuel Beardsley, April 12, 1834. Hiram Denio, May 7, 1834. Philo Gridley, July 17, 1838.
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JUDGES OF COMMON PLEAS AND COUNTY COURTS
1798, March 22-Jedediah Sanger of Whitestown, first judge; Hugh White and David Ostram of Whitestown, James Dean of Westmoreland, and George Huntington of Rome, judges.
1801, January 28-Silas Stone of Lowville, judge.
1801, August 21-Messrs. Sanger, White, Dean, Ostram and Huntington, re-appointed, with Thomas Hart additional.
1802, March 13-Nathan Sage and Henry Coffeen of Redfield.
1803, March 31-Needham Maynard.
1804, April 3-Chauncey Gridley.
1804, July 3-Messrs. Sanger, Dean, Ostram, Huntington, Sage, Coffeen, Maynard and Gridley, re-appointed.
1805, February 15-Messrs. Sanger, Dean, Sage, Maynard, Ostram, Coffeen and Gridley, re-appointed ; March 25, Samuel Dill; April 8, Apollos Cooper, ad- ditional.
1808, March 22-Messrs. Sanger, Dean, Gridley, Sage, Dill, Cooper, re-ap- pointed, and Joseph Jennings and Jarvis Pike additional.
1810, March 5-Morris S. Miller, first judge; Jedediah Sanger, Henry Mc- Niel of Paris, Abram Camp of Whitestown, and Timothy W. Wood.
1813, February 23-Morris S. Miller, James Dean, David Ostram, Henry McNiel, George Brayton, Richard Sanger, Jesse Curtiss, Gerrit G. Lansing, Benjamin Wright, John Storrs and Peter Pratt.
1814, April 5-Messrs. Miller, Dean, Ostram, McNiel, Curtiss, Lansing, Wright, Storrs and Pratt re-appointed; and Levi Carpenter, Jr., and Frederick Stanley, additional.
1815, April 15-Morris S. Miller, Joseph Jennings, Solomon Wolcott, Prosper Rudd, Daniel Ashley, Peter Pratt, James S. Kip, Sherman Barnes, Thomas H. Hamilton, Asahel Curtiss, Charles Wylie and Joseph Grant.
1818, April 24-Messrs. Miller, Wylie, Grant and Hamilton, with Ezekiel Bacon additional.
1821, March 21-Messrs. Miller, Grant and Hamilton, with Truman Enos and Joshua Hathaway additional.
1823, February 3-Messrs. Miller, Enos, Hathaway and Grant, with Samuel Jones additional.
1824, November 22-Samuel Beardsley, first judge, in place of Morris S. Miller, deceased.
1825, March 9-Henry R. Storrs, in place of Samuel Beardsley, who de- clined the appointment.
1826, April 5-James Dean (son of former Judge Dean) in place of Tru- man Enos, who resigned upon his election to the state senate.
1828, February 5-Messrs. Hathaway, Grant and Jones, re-appointed.
1830, January 15-Chester Hayden, first judge, and Israel Stoddard.
1831, April 8-Reuben Tower of Sangerfield, in place of James Dean, whose term had expired.
1832, February 10-Nathan Kimball of Augusta, in place of Reuben Tower, resigned.
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1833, February 6-John P. Sherwood of Vernon, and Arnon Comstock of Western, in place of Messrs. Jones and Hathaway, whose terms had expired.
1835, January 23-Chester Hayden of Utica, first judge, and Israel Stod- dard, re-appointed.
1837, February 21-Nathan Kimball, re-appointed.
1838, February 2-Pomroy Jones of Westmoreland, in place of J. P. Sher- wood, resigned; and March 9, Arnon Comstock, re-appointed.
1840, February 2-Fortune C. White of Whitestown, first judge, vice Hay- den; and April 14, Seth B. Roberts of Rome, vice Stoddard.
1843, February 10-Chester Hayden and Amos Woodworth of Florence, vice Messrs. Kimball and Comstock, whose terms had expired, and Pomroy Jones, re-appointed.
1845, February 21-P. Sheldon Root of Utica, first judge, vice White; and April 14, Ebenezer Robbins of Lee, vice Roberts.
1846, May 12-Othniel S. Williams of Kirkland, vice Hayden.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Ward Hunt, September, 1872.
JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES
Alexander S. Johnson, October, 1875.
Alfred C. Coxe, 1903.
JUDGE OF DISTRICT COURT OF UNITED STATES
Alfred C. Coxe, May 4, 1882.
Clerks of the Circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of New York, and District court of the same district, resident in Oneida county. By an act dividing the Northern district the clerk of the United States Cir- cuit court was also made the clerk of the District court.
Augustus C. Boyce, from June 14, 1849 to August 1, 1870.
Charles Mason, from August 1, 1870 to his death.
William H. Bright, from June 30, 1879 to July 1, 1883.
William S. Doolittle, from July 1, 1883 to date.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Samuel Beardsley, 1823. Henry A. Foster, 1853.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
VanRensselaer Weaver, 1910.
JUDGES OF COURT OF APPEALS
Alexander S. Johnson, appointed November 4, 1851. Hiram Denio, appointed June 23, 1853. Hiram Denio, elected November, 1857. Ward Hunt, elected November 7, 1865.
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COMMISSIONER OF APPEALS
Ward Hunt, July 5, 1870.
Alexander S. Johnson, January 7, 1873.
JUSTICES OF SUPREME COURT
Philo Gridley, 1847.
William J. Bacon, 1853 and 1861.
Henry A. Foster, 1863.
Charles H. Doolittle, 1869.
Milton H. Merwin, 1874 and 1888.
William E. Scripture, 1895.
Pascal C. J. DeAngelis, 1907.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Samuel A. Talcott, July 8, 1819.
Greene C. Bronson, February 27, 1829.
Samuel Beardsley, January 12, 1836.
John C. Davies, November, 1898 and 1900.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Charles J. Everett, 1880.
John D. McMahon, 1892.
John E. Mason, 1899.
Louis M. Martin, 1900.
Everett E. Risley, 1909.
August Merrill, 1911.
COUNTY JUDGES
Jedediah Sanger, appointed 1798.
Morris S. Miller, appointed 1810.
Samuel Beardsley, appointed 1824.
Henry R. Storrs, appointed 1825. Chester Hayden, appointed 1830. Fortune C. White, appointed 1840.
P. Sheldon Root, appointed 1845. P. Sheldon Root, elected 1847. George W. Smith, elected 1859. Joel Willard, elected 1867. Alexander H. Bailey, elected 1871. William B. Bliss, elected 1874.
William B. Sutton, elected 1880. Isaac J. Evans, elected 1886. Watson T. Dunmore, elected 1892.
George E. Pritchard, elected 1904. Frederick H. Hazard, elected 1910.
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SPECIAL COUNTY JUDGES
In 1846 the constitution authorized special county judges. David E. Wager, elected 1852. George Harrison, elected 1855. Kiron Carroll, elected 1861.
George H. Lynch, elected 1867. William B. Bliss, elected 1870-1873.
Robert O. Jones, appointed to fill vacancy, 1874.
Robert O. Jones, elected 1875. William H. Bright, elected 1878. Daniel E. Wager, elected 1880. Isaac J. Evans, elected 1883. Watson T. Dunmore, elected 1886, 1889.
Rudolphus C. Briggs, elected 1892-95. George T. Davis, elected 1898-1901. Willis W. Byam, elected 1904-1907. Walter G. Shankenbury, elected 1910.
SURROGATES
Arthur Breese, March 19, 1798. Joshua Hathaway, March 23, 1808. Erastus Clark, February 23, 1813. Greene C. Bronson, April 13, 1819. Joshua Hathaway, February 19, 1821. Henry A. Foster, March 31, 1827. Alanson Bennett, January 12, 1831. Henry A. Foster, January 27, 1835. John Stryker, August 22, 1839. Othniel S. Williams, June, 1847. Henry M. Burchard, November, 1855. Joseph S. Avery, November, 1863-1869. Stephen H. VanDresar, November, 1877. William B. Bliss, November, 1883. William H. Bright, November, 1889. Henry W. Bentley, appointed 1894. Frederick M. Calder, November, 1894-1900. Michael H. Sexton, November, 1906.
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