American lawyer and author, born at Belleville, NJ, on the 8th of December 1819. He was educated at Union College; studied law at Kinderhook, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He practiced successively at Lafayette, IN; Kinderhook, NY, and Troy. In 1852 and again in 1856 he was chosen a member of the legislature. His published works include The Indiana Justice: A Treatise on the Jurisdiction, Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in Civil and Criminal Cases (1846); Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions under the New York Code of Procedure (1852); Lives of the Chief Justices of the United States (1854); Practice in the Supreme Court of New York in Equity Actions (1860–61); besides monographs, published at different times in the Democratic Review, on Calhoun, Robespierre, Danton, Oliver Cromwell, Carnot and others. He was killed in a railroad accident at East Albany on the 6th of March 1863.
