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JOSEPHI F. SABINE, son of William H. Sabine, the pioneer lawyer of Onondaga Valley, was born in March, 1814. He graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1836. He soon afterward began the study of law with the late James R. Lawrence at Camillus, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and entered into partnership with Mr. Lawrence. The firm removed to this city in 1839, and enjoyed a successful practice for a number of years. The Jerry Rescue trials came on before him as United States Commissioner. Mr. Sabine's health was not robust and for many years in the latter part of his life he spent his winters in the south and did not actively follow his profession. He engaged quite largely in real eseate operations, in which he was very successful. It has been said of him that " he was an excellent companion, a warm friend, a devoted churchman, and an exemplary man and citizen." He died at his residence on Warren street, June 4th, 1874.
NATHANIEL B. SMITHI was born in Farmer Village, N. Y., October 12, 1819. He early prepared himself for college and at the age of twenty-one years graduated from Hobart with high honors. He began the study of law in the office of Benjamin Johnson, in Ithaca, and finished with Judge Barto, at Trumansburg. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1844, and practiced with Judge Barto until 1855, when he removed to Syracuse. Two years later he formed a partnership with De Witt C. Markham, which firm continued until 1869, when his son, Cornelius W., was admitted, the style becoming Smith, Markham & Smith. It has been written of Mr. Smith that he "was a gentleman of very superior legal attainments and thoroughly conscientious. His counsels were never based on uncertainties, and he would sooner lose a client than deal in deception. He was exceptionally well versed in the laws of the United States and in the practice of the United States courts. His literary tastes were very refined and his great strength of mind enabled him to store it with the choicest of gleanings."
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Mr. Smith was for several years a member of the Board of Education and during his last term its President. He died in April, 1875.
JAMES NOXON, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Fifth Judicial Dis- trict, was born at Onondaga Hill, N. Y., in 1817. His father was B. Davis Noxon, who was a prominent member of the Bar of Central New York. The son prepared for college at Pomeroy Academy, and entered Hamilton in 1834. He remained two years, when he went to Union, where he graduated in 1838. He returned to Syracuse and studied law with his father. After his admission to the bar, he entered the firm of Noxon, Comstock & Leav- enworth, and subsequently became connected with that of Noxon & Put- nam. In 1843, he and his brother, B. Davis Noxon, Jr., formed a copartner- ship. Later he was a partner of Sidney T. Fairchild, of Cazenovia. He was a partner of George D. Cowles when elected judge. As a lawyer, Judge Noxon was prominent as a referee. He was elected State Senator from Onondaga in 1856 and re-elected in 1858. He was nominated for Supreme Court Judge, in September, 1875, to succeed Judge Morgan, and was elected in the November following for the full term of fourteen years by a large majority. Judge Noxon was estimated throughout this District, not as a great lawyer or jurist, but as a faithful, hardworking and conscientious judge. He was highly esteemed for his affability with members of the bar and all who were connected with his court; and his memory will stand as an ex- ponent of the mild rather than the severe method of administering justice. There are many things connected with his brief career on the bench which excite the liveliest sympathy of the bar, and it is safe to say that Judge Nox- on will be always remembered with kindness and respect.
WILLIAM JAMES WALLACE, was born April 14th, 1838, at Syracuse. His parents were E. Fuller Wallace and Lydia Wheelwright Wallace, who were among the earlier settlers of Syracuse. He was prepared for college with the view of entering Dartmouth, where his father was graduated, but having concluded to adopt the law as his profession, it was thought prefer- able that he should pursue a course of general preparatory studies under the instruction of the Hon. Thomas Barlow, of Canastota. Accordingly, he became a member of the family of that gentleman, and studied with him for three years before beginning the study of the law. After reading law for a year he entered the law school of Hamilton College, of which Prof. Theodore W. Dwight was then the preceptor. He was graduated and took his degree in 1858 and was then examined for admission to the bar, and was recommended for admission. The examining committee consisted of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, Hon. Ward Hunt and Hon. J. Wyman Jones. On this occasion he made the acquaintance of Senator Conkling, which in after years ripened into an intimate friendship that lasted until the death of Mr. Conkling. He commenced practice of the law at Syracuse on the day he
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became twenty-one years of age, in partnership with Hon. William Porter. Subsequently he had as law partners Levi W. Hall, William C. Ruger and Edwin S. Jenney. In 1873, he was elected Mayor of the City of Syracuse, running as the Republican candidate against Hon. Elizur Clark, the Demo- cratic nominee. In March, 1874, he was appointed by President Grant, United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, suc- ceeding Hon. Nathaniel K. Hall, of Buffalo, who was appointed to the place while Postmaster-General in the cabinet of President Fillmore. In April, 1882, he was appointed by President Arthur, United States Circuit Judge for the second Judicial District, comprising the States of New York, Ver- mont, and Connecticut, succeeding in that office Hon. Samuel Blatchford, who was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Since that time he has exercised the duties of that office. The de- gree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Hamilton College in 1876, and by Syracuse University in 1883. Judge Wallace married for his first wife Josephine Robbins, of Brooklyn, who died in 1874. In 1878, he married for his second wife Alice Heyward Wheelwright, of New York City.
ANSEL JUDD NORTHIRUP, the present County Judge of Onondaga county, was born June 30, 1833, near Peterboro, Madison county, N. Y. His father, Rensselaer Northrup, of Tyringham, Mass., was brought in 1805, while a child, by his parents to Madison county, into what was then a wilderness. Six generations of Mr. Northrup's ancestors, on both sides, were New Englanders. His maternal grandfather, Ansel Judd, after whom he was named, was one of the early residents of Watervale, Onondaga county. Mr. Northrup was brought up on his father's farm, taught school four winters, prepared for college mainly at Peterboro, and Oberlin, Ohio, and was graduated from Hamilton College in July, 1858. While in college, under Professor Dwight, he pursued law studies to some extent. In 1858-9 he studied law in Columbia Law School, in the first class instructed by the celebrated Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, and took the two years' course in one year. In May, 1859, he was admitted to the bar. He came to Syra- euse a month later, and except for a few months (at the opening of the war of the Rebellion) spent in Chicago, where he had some thought of establishing himself in his profession, he has ever since resided in this city. During his professional practice he has had for partners, at one time Charles E. Fitch, who afterward abandoned the law for journalism and is now United States Collector of Internal Revenue, residing in Rochester, N. Y .; then James Noxon, who became a Justice of the Supreme Court ; after- wards J. Page Munro, deceased, and lastly Frederick S. Wicks, still practic- ing in Syracuse.
In 1870, Mr. Northrup was appointed United States Circuit Court Com- missioner for the Northern District of New York by Judge Woodruff, and
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not long afterward he was made United States Examiner in Equity, both of which offices he still holds. He was elected County Judge in 1882, for a term of six years and re-elected (with no Democratic nomination against him) in 1888, for a second term. Since 1877, he has been one of the Trus- tees of. the Syracuse Savings Bank.
During the early period of his law practice, Mr. Northrup did some miscellaneous literary work and newspaper editorial writing, and he has at various times delivered lectures and addresses on literary and other subjects. In 1880, he wrote and published a bookentitled, "Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks, and Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan ; a Record of Summer Vacations in the Wilderness." This was followed, in 1881, by a second book, "'Sconset Cottage Life : a Summer on Nantucket Island."
Mr. Northrup has always been a Republican in politics, and as such he made many speeches during the two Lincoln campaigns He was the first Vice-President and afterward became the President of the Loyal League, a large patriotic association organized during the war of the rebellion. In religion he is a Presbyterian , and was lay Commissioner from Syracuse Pres- bytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church held at Sara- toga in May, 1890, celebrated for its, great debate on "Revision." An ad- dress by him on "The Powers and Duties of Elders in the Presbyterian Church," delivered before the Elders' Association of Syracuse Presbytery, and subsequently issued in pamphlet form, attracted much attention and has had quite a circulation.
In November, 1863, Mr. Northrup married Eliza S. Fitch, eldest daugh- ter of the late Thomas B. Fitch. He is a brother of Mrs. Dwight H. Bruce and Milton H. Northrup, of the Syracuse Courier.
GEORGE FRANKLIN COMSTOCK was born of Revolutionary ancestry at Williamstown, Oswego county, August 24, ISII. His father died while George was still young and left no means to provide his son with a liberal education. He was distinguished at an early age for his love of books and after teaching for a period, graduated from Union College in 1834. He taught for a year the Latin and Greek language in classical schools in Utica and moved to Syracuse in 1835. He studied law with the late B. Davis Noxon, a lawyer of great distinction in Central New York, and was admitted in 1837. He enjoyed a very successful practice for many years, and in 1874 was appointed by the Governor as Reporter of decisions of the Court of Appeals. He succeeded Judges Denio and Nicholas Hill in that appointment. He held this place three years during which he published four volumns of decisions of that court. In 1852, he was appointed by President Fillmore as Solicitor of the Treasury of the United States, but re- tiredfrom the office at the end of the (Fillmore's) administration, and re- sumedthe practice of law in the higher courts.
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In 1855, he was elected Judge of Court of Appeals and remained on the bench six years, during two of which lie was the Chief Justice. He was nominated for re-election by the Democrats in 1861 for same office, but was defeated. In 1867, he was elected delegate-at-large to a convention called for the revision of the State constitution. An especial effort was put forth to reorganize the Judicial system of the State, and especially the Court of Appeals. The Judge gave that work his especial attention ; a new judiciary article was framed, and was accepted by popular vote, while all other work of the convention was rejected. In politics Judge Comstock was a Whig, and later a Democrat. He mingled somewhat actively in political discussions before and after the war of the Rebellion, and lis views were decided and pronounced against the Republican party's measures and policy. He is still actively engaged in his profession, but only in its higher walks. Upon his private life no stain has ever rested, and as a citizen he is distinguished for the prominent part he has taken in the foundation and care of public buildings.
ROWLAND HILL GARDNER died in Syracuse, November 12, 1888. He was born in Plainfield, Otsego county, in January, 1810. Not long after his admission to the bar he came to Syracuse (May, 1843,) with Hamilton Burdick and they entered into partnership which continued twenty-seven years. In 1850, he was elected District Attorney, and during the later years of his life he was Indian Agent. Mr. Gardner was all his life an un- swerving Democrat in politics, and spoke in public for every Democratic presidential candidate from Andrew Jackson to Grover Cleveland. He was a ready speaker, with a keen and active sense of humor ; he was a hater of all sham, pretense and wrong and could employ invective in the most forcible manner, when occasion arose. While Mr. Gardner did not attain to great- ness as a lawyer, he carried with him to the last the respect and confidence of every member of the county bar .*
Members of Congress .- Many members of the bar of Onondaga county have held the office of Member of Congress, as is indicated below. In the year 1794, (Act of December 18, 1792,) Herkimer, Montgomery, Onondaga, Ontario, Otsego, and Tioga counties comprised one Congressional District. By the Act of March 23, 1797, Cayuga, Onondaga, Ontario, Steuben, and Tioga comprised the 10th District, and by the Act of March 30, 1802, Che- nango, Onondaga, and Tioga were made the 16th District. In the 9th Congress, Eri Tracy, of Chenango, was elected to represent the District. In the 10th Congress, Reuben Humphreys, of Onondaga, represented the 13th District. John Harris, formerly Sheriff of Onondaga county, was a
* For extended sketches of other members of the legal profession in Onondaga county, the reader is referred to the Biographical Department of this work. .
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member from the 14th District, and William Kirkpatrick, then Superintend- ent of the Salt Springs, represented the 11th District. Eri Tracy represent- ed the 16th District in the 11th and 12th Congresses (1809 to 1813.) In the 13th Congress, Hon. James Geddes represented the new District compris- ing Onondaga and Cortland counties. In the 14th Congress, (1815-16) Victory Birdseye was Representative; 15th, James Porter ; 16th, George Hall ; 17th and 18th, Elisha Litchfield ; 19th, Luther Badger ; 20th and 21st, Jonas Earll, jr. ; 22d, Freeborn G. Jewett; 23d, 24th and 25th, Wil- liam Taylor; 25th, Nehemiah H. Earll; 27th, Victory Birdseye ; 28th and 29th, Horace Wheaton ; 30th and 31st, Daniel Gott ; * 32d and 33d, Daniel T. Jones; 34th and 35th, Amos P. Granger; 36th and 37th, Charles B. Sedgwick ; 38th and 39th, Thomas T. Davis; 40th and 41st, Dennis Mc- Carthy ; 42d and 43d, R. Holland Duell ; 44th, E. W. Leavenworth ; 45th to 50th inclusive, Frank Hiscock, who was elected United States Senator in the winter of 1887-8 for six years; 51st to the present time, James J. Belden.
United States District Court, Northern District of New York. - The following have been officers of this Court, resident in this county: Joseph F. Sabine, United States Commissioner, 1850 ; James R. Lawrence, United States District Attorney, 1850; Ilarry Allen, United States Marshal. The first Deputy-Marshal was Peter Way, deceased ; William Cahill, appointed in his stead, followed by James H. Hinman, Fred Shug, Thomas H. Curry, William R. Adams, and William H. Shannon. B. Davis Noxon, United States Commissioner, appointed October 22d, 1867; William C. Ruger, United States Commissioner, appointed July 8th, 1858; Daniel F. Gott, Register in Bankruptcy, appointed May 10th, 1867; A. Judd Northrup, United States Commissioner, appointed March 22d, 1870 ; Daniel F. Gott, United States Commissioner, appointed April 2d, 1872 ; William J. Wallace, appointed Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York, April 7th, 1874, and appointed United States Circuit Court Judge of the Second Circuit comprising New York, Vermont, and Connecticut, April 6th, 1882, and is still in office.
Judges of the Court of Appeals .- The Judges of the Court of Appeals who have been residents of this county are as follows : Hon. Freeborn G. Jewett, Skaneateles, two years, elected June 7, 1847 ; Hon. George F. Com- stock, Syracuse, elected November 7, 1853 ; Hon. Charles Andrews, Syra- cuse, elected May, 17, 1870, fourteen years, was appointed by the Governor Chief Judge in place of Judge Folger, resigned November 19, 1881, and re- elected Associate Judge November, 1883, fourteen years ; Hon. William C.
* In 1822, Onondaga alone formed a District, continuing thus until 1832, when Madison county was made a part of the District-the 23d. In 1842, it Onondaga was again made a District by itself and so continued until the 36th Congress, when Cortland was united with it, as at present.
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Ruger, Chief Judge, elected, November 7, 1882, fourteen years ; Hon. Irving G. Vann, appointed January 1, 1889, on second division of Court of Appeals, from Supreme Court.
Accusres G. S. Atlas,-Born in Cazenovia, January 5, 1831 ; educated in Cazenovia Semi- nary, Albany Normal School, and Union College ; studied law at Brockport, N. Y., and was admitted at Rochester in December, 1857; practiced in Syracuse since 1860. He has been Justice of the Peace, Assistant U. S. Assessor, and Member of Assembly, 1868.
JAMES A. ALLIS .- Born September 13, 1840, in Cazenovia ; educated at the Syracuse High School and Union College ; studied law in Syracuse in 1870-74 ; admitted in Rochester in 1874, and practiced since in Syracuse and has been Justice of the Peace for several years.
CHARLES W. ANDREWS .- Born in Syracuse in 186t ; educated in Harvard Law School, grad- uating in 1932 ; studied in the office of Knapp & Nottingham, and was admitted to the firm in De- cember, 1886.
WILLIAM S. ANDREWS .- Born in Syracuse in 1353; educated at St. John's Military School and Harvard, graduating in 1880; studied also in New York, and admitted in 1882; now a member of the firm of Knapp, Nottingham & Andrews.
WILLIAM C. ANDERSON .- Born April to. 1830, in Otisco, Onondaga county, N. V .; educated at Onondaga Academy; studied his profession in the Law School at Poughkeepsie and in Camillus, N. Y .; admitted in Utica, January 7, 1857, and practiced in Jordan, Camillus, and since 1860 in Syracuse. He was Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in 1867-8-9, and Supervisor of the Seventh ward of Syracuse four terms.
CHARLES F. AYLING .- Born January 31, 1862, at Syracuse, N V .; educated in Syracuse; studied law with Kennedy & Tracy at Syracuse from 1579 to 1881, and at the Columbia College Law School until June. 1882 ; admitted at General Term, Rochester, October, 1$52 ; practiced in Syracuse ever since ; now a member of firm of Tracy, McLennan & Ayling ; member of Common Council of Syra- cuse during year 1890, occupying the position of Chairman of Finance during that year ; resigned public office in November, ISgo.
HIRAM H. BACON .- Was born in Rossie, N. Y., March 19, 1863; educated at Ives Seminary, N. Y., and University of Michigan ; studied law at Grayling, Mich., with M. J. Connine, and ad- mitted there; practiced in Onondaga county.
BINGHAM N. BAILEY .- Was born in the Town of Clay, Onondaga county, in 1$49 ; educated at Cazenovia Seminary; studied law at Syracuse and admitted in Rochester, October, 1874 ; prac- tieed since at Syracuse, N. Y .; was Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in 1877 and 187S, and dele- gate to last Judicial Convention.
HENRY BALDWIN .- Died August 22, 1863 ; was a soldier of 1512, agent for the Syracuse Com- pany, and the first Mayor of Syracuse; studied law with Thaddeus Wood and others ; admitted February 28, 1820.
CHARLES G. BALDWIN .- Born in Rushford, N. Y., August 30, 1846 ; educated in Hamilton College ; studied at the Law School in Hamilton College, and was admitted at the same place. He has practiced in Syracuse sinee 1874; of Baldwin & Kennedy.
DANIEL BOOKSTAVER .- Born December 19, 132s, in Montgomery, Orange county, N. Y .; edu- cated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J .; studied law in Montgomery, N. Y., from 1548 to 1350; admitted in Brooklyn. N. Y., in 1850; practiced in Dunkirk in 1850 to 1860, and since in Syracuse. He was Mayor of Syracuse in 1863 and 1864 ; now Superintendent of Section 6, Erie Canal.
THURSTON D. BREWSTER .- Born in Ellisburgh, Jefferson county, N. V., May 17. 1848 ; edu- cated in common schools ; studied Jaw in Syracuse, with D. F. Gott and HI. Hoyt, 1874-77, and was admitted in Syracuse, 1877 ; practiced in Syracuse since. He was Police Commissioner three years and Excise Commissioner three years.
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EDGAR F. BROWN .- Born in Yonkers, N. Y., June S, 1867; educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied law with Stone, Gannon & Pettit, and was admitted at Syracuse, May 2, IS90, and since practiced in Syracuse.
EDWIN S. BUTTERFIELD -Born December 17, 1840, in town of Bridgewater, Pa. ; educated at Yale College and studied law with Hon. Israel S. Spencer, and was admitted at Syracuse in Oc- tober, 1869, and practiced only in Syracuse ; makes a specialty of medical jurisprudence.
WILLIAM R. CHAMBERLIN .- Born in Saratoga county; studied law with Comstock & New- comb ; raised Co. B in the 122d Regiment in the late war, and went to the front as its Captain. Brevetted Major for honorable service, but resigned on account of illness. Provost Marshal of this district in 1864; has served as Judge Advocate of the National Guard, and as Assistant Adjutant- General ; prominent in politics and represented Geddes in Board of Supervisors ; has been a mem- ber of the firms of Hall & Chamberlin, Chamberlin & Knapp, and Chamberlin & Ayres.
JEROME L. CHENEY .- Born in Baldwinsville, June 18, 1363 ; educated at the Normal School in Cape Girardeau, Mo. ; studied with Goodelle & Nottingham, in Syracuse, and was admitted in Utica, June 2, 1884. He has practiced in Syracuse since.
JOHN G. CLIFFORD .- Born in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, January 26, 1841; educated at St. Ann's College, Canada ; studied law in Frederickton, Canada, 1859; there admitted as barrister, October, 1864 ; admitted member of Onondaga County Bar in 1890 ; practiced in Syracuse, N. Y.
GEORGE K. COLLINS .- Born in Spafford, Onondaga county; served as First Lieutenant in the 149th Regiment and participated in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, and brevetted Captain ; admitted to the Bar in 1867 and practiced in Syracuse since; is prominent in the G. A. R. and Royal Arcanum.
GEORGE E. CONGDON .- Born in Jacksonville, Tompkins county, N. Y., July 17, 1863 ; edn- cated in public schools at Trumansburg and Binghamton ; studied law in Auburn and Union College, and was admitted at Albany, in September, 1883. He has since practiced in Syracuse.
GEORGE R. Cook .- Born in Cazenovia, N. V .. June S. 1836; educated at the Yates Polytech- nic Institute in Chittenango, N. Y .. and Oneida Conference Seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y .; studied law in Chittenango and in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1858, 1859, and 1860 ; admitted in Syracuse, April 5, 1860 ; practiced in Syracuse until elected Surrogate of Onondaga county, in the fall of 1879, and was re-elected in 1385.
FREDERICK D. CUMMINGS .- Born in Preble, Cortland county, October 5, 1856 ; educated in Cortland Academy, Homer Academy, and Cornell University: studied law with Jenney, Brooks, Mar- shall & Ruger, and was admitted at Syracuse, May 3, 1389, and practiced since in Syracuse.
HOWARD PERCY DENISON .- Was born in l'arish, N. V., May 28, 1859; educated at the Wes- leyan University : studied law in Syracuse. N. Y., from 1385 to 1887, and was admitted in Syracuse, November 17, 1887, practicing since in Syracuse.
JAMES DEVINE .- Born in Navarino, Onondaga county, October 5, IS&S ; educated at the On- ondaga Academy and Syracuse University ; studied law in Syracuse, September, IS$3, to February, ISS6, and was admitted in Syracuse, February, 1836 ; practiced in Syracuse ; of Hoyt, Beach, Han- cock & Devine.
GEORGE DOBENY .- Was born in Syracuse. December 9. 1844 ; educated in the public schools of Syracuse ; studied law in Syracuse, 1963 to 1366, and was admitted in Syracuse in IS66 ; prac- ticed in Syracuse, being a member of the firm of Hiscock, Gifford & Doheny and firm of Hiscock, Doheny & Hiscock.
ROBERT E. DRAKE .- Born in Tully. Onondaga county, December 24, 1861 ; educated at the Normal School in Cortland and Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Mo. : studied law in Syra- case, and was admitted in syracuse. January 15, 1856, and practiced since in Syracuse.
CHARLES H. DETLL. - Ben in Cortland, N. Y., April 13. 150 ; educated in the Cortlandville Academy and Hamilton College : stured law at the Hamilton College Law School and in New York city, and was admitted in U tica, N. Y., in 1972. He practiced in New York city from 13;3 to 1880, and in Syracuse from 1890 to the present ; of Duell, Laas & Duell ; specialty, patent law.
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