American jurist and educator, brother of the preceding; born in Rhinebeck, NY, on the 8th of September 1780; died in New York on the 30th of May 1858. After practicing law in Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York and Rhinebeck, he enlisted in the navy for a brief period during the trouble with France in 1798, and contributed to several papers of the day, and then settled down to active practice in Rhinebeck. There he was elected to the legislature. He was the author of school laws upon which the present New York laws are based, and was a promoter of river and canal navigation. He served as judge of the supreme court of New York from 1822 to 1829. In 1829 he was elected president of Columbia College, a position he retained until 1842. He was an active worker in the literary and historical societies of the city. He published Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1847), and numerous articles descriptive of early United States history, which are highly valued to-day.
