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BLATCHFORD, SAMUEL, was graduated from Columbia College in 1837. Two years later he became private secretary to Governor Seward and military secretary on his staff. He studied law, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1842, and in 1845 became the law partner of Will- iam II. Seward at Auburn, N. Y. In 1854 he removed to New York City and became head of the law firm of Blatchford, Seward & Gris- wold. He was District Judge of the United States Court for the Southern District of New York from 1867 to 1878. from the latter date until 1882 was Federal Circuit Judge, and in March, 1882, was ap- pointed by President Arthur an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was born in New York City, March 9, 1820, and died in Newport, R. L., July 7, 1893.
ARNOLD, LEMUEL HASTINGS, head of the law firm of Arnold & Greene, of New York City, is also an officer of several corporations. He is President of the Fidelity Securities Company, successor to the Fidelity Loan and Trust Company, of Sioux City, la .; is a director and member of the Executive Committee of the Home Life Insurance Company, and is a director of the Equitable Seenrities Company. He is President of the Homeopathic Hospital of Brool lyn, and is a mem- ber of the Hamilton Club of that borough, and the Lawyers' Club and the Bar Association of New York. He was instrumental in securing a uniform system of examination for admission to the bar in this State, being the author of the law establishing a State Board of Ex- aminers, and being appointed a Special Committee of the City Bar Association to urge the measure before legislative committees. Hc was born in Providence, R. L., November 17, 1847, the son of Lemuel
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Hastings Arnold and Harriet Rebecca Sheldon, and the grandson of Lemuel Hastings Arnold, who was Governor of Rhode Island in 1831- 32, and subsequently a member of Congress. Jonathan Arnold, his great-grandfather, was a Revolutionary soldier, a Congressman, and founder of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Daniel Lyman, a Revolutionary sol- dier who afterward became Chief Justice of Rhode Island, was also his great-grandfather. During the Civil War Mr. Arnold's father removed to Brooklyn and engaged in the warehouse business, while the son, at fifteen years of age, entered the Pay Department of the Army. In 1870 he was graduated from the Columbia College Law School. He was attorney to Public Administrators Henry Alker, Algernon S. Sullivan, and Richard J. Morrison, of this city, prior to forming his present law partnership with Hon. J. Warren Greene, now a Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
MCCOOK, JOHN JAMES, member of the law firm of Alexander & Green. and enjoying a large corporation practice, is a Trustee of the American Surety Company, and a director of the Mercantile Trust Company, the Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety, the Sun Insurance Company, Wells, Fargo & Company, the New York Loan and Improvement Company, and the American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Company. He was born at Carrolton, Ohio, May 25, 1845. His father, Major Daniel McCook, was killed in the Civil War, in which Mr. McCook also en- listed at the age of sixteen, leaving Kenyon College to join the 6th Ohio cavalry. He was JOHN JAMES McCOOK. assigned to the staff of General T. L. Crit- tenden. and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, and Chickamauga, and those of the Wilderness campaign, being severely wounded at Shady Grove, Ga. He rose to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, though but twenty years old when the war closed. He was graduated from Ken- yon College in 1866, and from the Harvard Law School in 1869. He has received the degree of A.M. from Kenyon and Princeton, and that of LL.D. from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League, Tuxedo, and many other clubs.
McCOOK, ANSON GEORGE, lawyer, is President of the New York Law Publishing Company, and a trustee of the State Trust Company. He recruited a company of Ohio Volunteers, entered the Union Army as their Captain, was promoted to a Coloneley, and at the end of the war received the Brevet of Brigadier-General " for gallaut and meritorious services." From 1865 to 1873 he was Asses- sor of Internal Revenue at Steubenville, Ohio. Removing to New
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York, he represented this city in Congress as a Republican from 1877 to 1883. He acted as Secretary to the United States Senate in the 50th, 51st, and 52d Congresses. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, October 10, 1835, he visited California as a youth, but returned to Steubenville and studied law prior to the Civil War. He is the son of Dr. John McCook, and a cousin of John J. McCook.
JENNINGS, FREDERICK BEACH, was graduated from Williams College in 1872, from the Harvard Law School in 1874, from the New York University Law School in 1875, founded the law firm of Jen- nings & Russell, of this city, and subsequently became a member of his present firm of Stetson, Tracy, Jennings & Russell, well-known corporation lawyers. He is counsel of the Erie Railroad Company, and of other important corporations. He is President of the Charles- ton City Railway Company, President of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Docks and Improvement Company, President of the Long Dock Company, Vice-President of the American Trading Com- pany, Vice-President of the First National Bank of North Benning- ton, Vt., Vice-President of the Bennington and Rutland Railway Company, and a director of the Chicago and Erie Railroad. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Century, City, University, Racquet, Country, Delta Kappa Epsilon, New York Athletic, and University Athletic clubs, the City Bar Association, the Downtown Association, the New England Society, and the Williams College Alumni Associa- tion. He married, in 1880, Laura Hall, daughter of Hon. Trenor W. Park, and granddaughter of Governor Hiland Hall, of Vermont, and has a daughter and three sons, Percy Hall, Frederick Beach, Jr., and Edward Phelps Jennings. Born in Bennington, Vt., in 1853, he is the son of Rev. Isaac Jennings, the grandson of Dr. Isaac Jennings. and is descended from Joshua Jennings, who was born in England in 1620, and emigrated to Connecticut twenty-five years later.
GRAHAM, JOHN ANDREW, a resident of New York City from 1805 until his death in 1841, was a prominent practitioner in the criminal courts of the city, and acquired a large fortune. He was born in Southbury, Conn., in 1764, was admitted to the Connectient Bar in 1785, and subsequently practiced law for many years at Rut- land, Vt., where he was a leader in his profession. He visited Europe several times. In 1796 the University of Aberdeen conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. The late distinguished Colonel Jolin Lori- mer Graham, of this city, was his son by a second wife, Margaret, daughter of James Lorimer, of London, while the present Malcolm Graham, Sr., is his grandson. He was of the family of which the Dukes of Montrose are the heads. His grandfather, Dr. John Gra- ham, was graduated from the University of Glasgow, and early in
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the Eighteenth Century emigrated to Exeter, N. H., and practiced medicine. Later he studied theology, and was pastor of the church at Stafford, Conn., from 1723 to 1732, and of the church at Southbury, Conn., from 1732 to 1774. He married Abigail, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, D.D. Their son, Dr. Andrew Graham, father of John Andrew Graham, was a physician; for many years repre- sented Woodbury, Conn., in the General Court; was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety; was Surgeon in the patriot army at the battles of Danbury and White Plains, and was captured by the British during the action last mentioned and held until the close of the war. He married Martha Curtiss.
GRAHAM, JOHN LORIMER, long a leader of the bar of New York City as head of the firms of Graham, Noyes & Martin and Graham, Wood & Powers, which were especially conspicuous in connection with mercantile law, was also prominent in public life. He was the son of John Andrew Graham, of this city, and Margaret, daughter of James Lorimer, of London; was himself.born in London, March 20, 1797, and died in Flushing, L. I., July 22, 1876. Having studied law with Judge Tapping Reeve, of Litchfield, Conn., and John Anthon, of this city, he was admitted to the bar in 1821. In 1817 he had joined the State Militia, and in 1819 was appointed Aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor De Witt Clinton, with the rank of Colonel. In 1834 he was appointed Regent of the State University. From 1840 to 1844 he was Postmaster of New York City. In 1861 he accepted a confi- dential position in the Treasury Department at Washington. He founded a free scholarship in the University of the City of New York, of the council of which he was a member. He was a life director of the American Bible Society and a prominent member of many organi- zations. He married the youngest daughter of Isaac Clason, one of New York's notable merchants. A daughter survived him, with four sons-James, Clinton, Augustus, and Malcolm Graham.
GRAHAM, MALCOLM, since 1854, has been a member of the firm of Hartley & Graham, of New York City, dealers in firearms and ammunition. He is a director of the Remington Arms Company, and a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League, Century, Law- yers', Riding, Manhattan, New York Yacht. Atlantic Yacht, and Sea- wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, the Downtown Association and the Sons of the Revolution. He is also a member of the St. Andrew's Society and of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He married, first, Annie, daughter of George Douglas, of New York City. She died in 1873. In 1876 he married Amelia M., daughter of JJ. B. Wilson, of New York City. He has a daughter and two sons-Malcohu, Jr .. and Robert D. Graham. He was himself born in New Jersey, July 27, 1832, the son of the late Colonel John Lorimer Graham, of this
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city, eminent as a lawyer and in public life, and grandson of John Andrew Graham, also a New York lawyer, and of distinguished ancestry.
GRAHAM, MALCOLM, JR., eldest son of Malcolm Graham, well- known merchant of New York City, is himself a director and the Treasurer of the F. O. Pierce Company, paint manufacturers. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1890, and is a member of the University Athletic, New York Yacht, Lawyers', Princeton, Delta Phi, St. Andrew's Golf, Richmond County Country, and Staten Island Cricket clubs, and the St. Andrew's Society. He married Maud L. . Brightman.
DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL, railroad financier, lawyer, leader in the councils of the Republican party, eminent in social and public life, orator, and famous after-dinner speaker, is one of the most distinguished citi- zens of the United States. Graduating with high honors from Yale College in 1856 when twenty-two years of age, he identified himself with the Republi- ean party of which John C. Fremont was then Presidential candidate. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, and the same year elected a delegate to the Republican State Convention, from his home at Peekskill, N. Y. He won renown as a political speaker through- CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW. out the Ninth Congressional District during the Lincoln campaign of 1860, and being nominated for the New York Assembly the following year received a handsome majority in the Third District of West- chester County, which had been previously overwhelmingly Demo- cratic. Re-elected in 1862, he was mentioned for Speaker of the House. became Chairman of its Ways and Means Committee, and acted as Speaker a part of the session. In 1863 he received the Republican nomination for Secretary of State, made a brilliant canvass, and, despite the fact that Governor Horatio Seymour had swept the State
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at the head of the Democratic ticket the year previous, he was trium- phantly elected. He declined a renomination in 1865, and, removing to New York City, served for some time as Tax Commissioner. The papers had been made out for his appointment as Collector of the Port of New York when a quarrel between United States Senator Morgan and President Johnson altered the program. Appointed United States Minister to Japan by Secretary Seward, he resigned after holding the commission four weeks, his connection with the Vanderbilt railroad interests having already become such as to justify this decision. In 1872 he permitted his nomination as Lieutenant-Governor on the Horace Greeley ticket, suffering defeat with the great editor. In 1881,. when Senators Conkling and Platt endeavored to embarrass President Garfield by their resignations, Mr. Depew was the leading candidate before the Legislature for election to the United States Senate, being the choice of two-thirds of the Republicans of both houses, and only lacking ten votes of election on joint ballot. At the end of eighty-two days, following the fortieth ballot, in which he retained all his strength, he withdrew on account of the death of President Garfield, declaring that " the Senatorial contests should be brought to a close as decently and speedily as possible." In 18SI, with a Republican majority of nearly two-thirds in the Legislature, all factions united in offering him the vacant United States Senatorship from New York. He declined on account of his business engagements. One of the most formidable candidates for nomination to the Presidency in the Repub- lican National Convention of 1888, with a solid vote of the delegation of his own State, he withdrew in the interest of harmony, throwing his strength to Benjamin Harrison, who received the nomination. It is believed that his vigorous advocacy of the renomination of President Harrison, after Blaine developed the sudden rivalry which he had de- clared he should not do, together with his skillful leadership of the Harrison forces in the Republican National Convention of 1892, and eloquent presentation of the name of Harrison to the convention, turned the tide in favor of the renomination of the President. When Blaine resigned as Secretary of State in the sununer of 1892, President Harrison offered the post to Mr. Depew, but after a week's considera- tion the latter declined. In January, 1899, he was elected to the United States Senate by the New York Legislature.
His connection with the Vanderbilt railroad system began in 1866, when he became attorney to the New York and Harlem Railroad Company. He became general counsel to the consolidated New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company in 1869, and soon en- tered its directorate. In 1875 he became general counsel of the entire system, being also elected a director of each company composing it. In the reorganization of 1882 he was elected First Vice-President of the New York Central, and June 14, 1884, succeeded the late James Rutter as President both of this road and the West Shore. These
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positions he held until the system was still further compacted by the reorganization of the spring of 1898, when he resigned to accept the more responsible trust of presiding officer of all the boards of direc- tors of the affiliated corporations. In addition to forty-seven railroad corporations of which he is director, he is trustee or director of the Union Trust Company, the Mercantile Trust Company, the National Surety Company, the Western National Bank, the Schermerhorn Bank of Brooklyn, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Equit- able Life Assurance Society of the United States, the New York Mu- tual Gas Light Company, the Brooklyn Warehouse and Storage Com- pany, and several other corporations. He has been a trustee of Yale College since 1872, a regent of the State University since 1874, and is President of the New York Society of the Sons of the American Rev- olution, President of the St. Nicholas Society, was for seven years President of the Union League Club, and for ten years President of the Yale Alumni of New York. In 1887 Yale University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. His reputation as an orator and after-dinner speaker is national. Born in Peekskill, N. Y., April 23, 1834, he de- scends through his father from Huguenot ancestors who settled in New Rochelle, Westchester County, in the seventeenth century, and through his mother from Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
BANKS, DAVID, head of the famous law-book publishing house, which his father, the late David Banks, founded in 1801, is also Presi- dent of the Building, Inspector and Sanitary Surety Company, and Vice-President of the East River National Bank. Of the latter insti- tution his father was the first President. Mr. Banks was the last Cap- tain of the old City Guard, and is an honorary member of the organi- zation which perpetuates its memory. He is a Commander of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and was formerly Commodore of the Atlantic Yacht Club. He is a member of the Council of the New York University and a member of its Law, Library, and Building commit- tees. He is a member of the Union, New York, Manhattan, St. Nicholas, Lawyers', City, New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, and Ata- lanta Boat clubs, the Sons of the Revolution, and the societies of For- eign and of Colonial Wars. His yacht is the Water Witch. He was born in this city, December 25, 1827, and married Lucetta G., dangh- ter of the late Elias Plum, of Troy, N. Y. He has a daughter and a son, David Banks, Jr., the latter being his business associate.
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BARLOW, PETER TOWNSEND, member of the well-known law firm of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate, is the son of one of the founders of that firm, the late Samuel L. M. Barlow, and a daughter of Peter Townsend. He was born in this city, June 21, 1857; was graduated from Harvard in 1879, studied at the Columbia College
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Law School and with his father's firm, and has been in active practice since. He is a director of the Mount Sterling Railroad Company and the Witte Water Placer Company. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, University, Harvard, Racquet, and New York Yacht clubs, and the Downtown Association. In 1886 he married Virginia Louise, daughter of Edward Mathews, and has two sons-Edward Mathews and Samuel L. M. Barlow.
LORD. DANIEL DE FOREST. eldest son of Daniel Lord, the cele- brated commercial lawyer, who founded and was long the head of the New York law firm of Lord, Day & Lord, also became a prominent lawyer. He was born April 17. 1819, studied law with his father, and became a member of his firm. He was connected with a number of in- stitutions, and was one of the secretaries of the immense mass meet- ing in this city, April 20, 1861, to greet the heroes of Fort Sumter. Ile married, in 1845, Mary Howard, daughter of Benjamin F. Butler, one of the revisers of the code in this State, and Attorney-General in the Cabinets of Van Buren and Jackson, and sister of the present Will- iam Allen Butler.
LORD, DANIEL, the present head of the famous law firm of Lord, Day & Lord. is the eldest son of the late Daniel De Forest Lord, who was in turn eldest son of the eminent Daniel Lord. He was born in this city in 1846, was graduated from Columbia in 1866, and two years later was admitted to the bar and to the firm of which he is now senior member. He is a trustee of the United States Trust Company, and a director of the Fifth Avenue Trust Company and the Equitable Life Assurance Society. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League, University. Lawyers', New York Athletic, Rockaway Hunt, Lawrence, and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs. the Downtown Association. the City Bar Association, the Columbia Alumni Association, and the Sons of the Revolution. Ile married. in 1868, Silvie Livingston Bolton, and has a daughter, Fanny Bolton Lord. Ilis only son, Daniel Lord. died in 1893, having been grad- uated from Yale the previous year.
FOLSOM, GEORGE, lawyer. historical writer, and diplomat. was born in Kennebunk, Me., in 1802; in 1822 was graduated at Harvard; studied law and practiced at Saco and Framingham, Me., and Wor- coster, Mass., prior to 1837, and in the latter year became a resident of New York City. He was at one time Chairman of the American Antiquarian Society, and subsequently became President of the American Ethnological Society. He was a prominent member of the New York Historical Society, and published " Sketches of Saco and Biddeford," " Dutch Annals of New York," " Letters and Despatches
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of Cortez," " Political Condition of Mexico," and " Address on the Discovery of Maine." In 1844 he was elected to the New York Senate. By appointment of President Zachary Taylor, in 1850, he was for four years Chargé d'Affaires at The Hague. He died, in 1869, at Rome, Italy. He married, in 1839, Margaret Cornelia, daughter of Benjamin Winthrop, and a descendant of Governor John Winthrop.
George Winthrop Folsom, his son, was born in New York City, was graduated from Columbia College, and is a member of the Univer- sity, Century, and St. Anthony clubs, and the Columbia Alumni Association. He resides at Lenox, Mass. Margaret Winthrop Fol- som, his sister, became a member of the Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist, and established the St. John Baptist Foundation, which maintains a mission church and schools for girls in this city and on Long Island.
COOKE, WILLIAM GATES, was admitted to the bar in New York City, June 7, 1872, practiced law in that city until April, 1879, and since the latter date has practiced in Brooklyn. He was Counsel to the Kings County Board of Supervisors in 1884 and 1885, while in 1896 and 1897 he was Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of Brook- lyn. He is a member of the Union League and Crescent Athletic clubs of Brooklyn. He was born in Kingston, N. Y., June 6. 1851. and is the son of Erastus Cooke and Lucretia Root, daughter of Silas Gates and Deborah McDonald, and the grandson of Holden Cooke and Ruth Joslin. His paternal ancestor came over in the Mayflower. His maternal great-grandmother. Huldah Goffe, was descended from one of the judges who condemned Charles I., " Goffe, the regicide."
LOGAN, WALTER SETH, is the head of the law firm of Logan, Clark & Demond, and President of the Sonora and Sinaloa Irrigation Company. He is a member of many clubs of New York and Brook- lyn, as well as of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and enjoys high social position. He was graduated from Yale in 1870, from Harvard Law School in 1871, and from Columbia College Law School in 1872. Ile was designated by the Dean of the Har- vard Law School when the latter was applied to by James C. Carter to recommend a graduate for a delicate trust in connection with the celebrated Jumel ease. After an association of many years with Mr. Carter. he organized his present firm, with Salter S. Clark and Charles M. Demond. Ilis cases include the Chesebrough estate. Wirt Fountain Pen case, Phelps Estate litigation. and the water-right ir- rigation controversies in the southwest. He was born. April 15, 1847, in Washington. Litchfield County. Conn .. where his ancestors were among the early settlers. Ilis father, Hon. Seth S. Logan, was a prominent Democrat. He was for twenty years a member of the Connecticut Legislature, and held other State offices.
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BUTLER, WILLIAM ALLEN, is one of the most eminent of New York lawyers. He was long at the head of the law firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, and is now the senior member of the firm of Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse. He was made President of the American Bar Association in 1886, and in 1886 and 1887 was Presi- dent of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has long been regarded as a leading authority on admiralty law in the United States. Among his cases which have decided the maritime law of the country in important points may be mentioned those of the Pennsylvania (19 Wallace, 125), the Lottawanna (21 Wallace, 558), the Scotland (105 United States, 24), and the Montana (129 United States, 397). In all these cases the United States Supreme Court affirmed the interpretation of the law argued by Mr. Butler before that tribunal. He has been a member of the council of the University of the City of New York since 1862, and throughout this period has delivered an annual course of lectures on admiralty law before the Law School of the University. He has also distinguished himself in letters, both as a poet and writer of prose. While travel- ing abroad, from 1846 to 1848, he contributed sketches of " Out-of-the- Way Places in Europe " to the Literary World. " The Colonel's Club " was a humorous series in the same periodical. He wrote on " Cities of Art and the Early Artists " for the Art Union Bulletin. His poem, ." The Future " (1816), was followed by many others, contributed to the Democratic Review and other periodicals. " Barnum's Parnassus," a volume of poems, was issued in 1850. Seven years later the poetical satire, " Nothing to Wear," appeared anonymously in Harper's Weekly, and was reproduced in England, Germany, and France. "Two Mill- ions" was published in 1858, and the " General Average " a little later, while his collected poems were published in Boston in 1871. IIe has written two successful novels, " Mrs. Limber's Raflle " and " Do- mesticus." Among writings of another character are " The Bible by Itself " (1860), " Martin Van Buren " ( 1862), " Lawyer and Cli- ent " (1871), " Evert A. Duyckinek " (1879), and a history of the revision of the statutes of New York (1888). He was born in Albany, February 20, 1825. His father, Hon. Benjamin Franklin Butler, held the portfolio of Attorney-General in the cabinets of both Jackson and Van Buren. He was one of the most eminent lawyers of the State of New York, and one of the revisers of the statutes. William Allen Butler is a member of the Union League, Century, Grolier, and Lawyers' clubs, and the Association of the Bar. Ilis son, William Allen Butler, Jr., associated with his father in law practice, is Prosi- dent of the Lawyers' Club, as well as a member of the University and Princeton clubs and the Association of the Bar.
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