. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. PastRegent of the Royal Arcanum, President and lifemember of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, BOSTWICK, Charles Francis Columbia 1886, in Tuckahoe, N. Y., 1866; educated in publicschools; Columbia, 1866; (cum laude),1886; admitted to New York Bar, 1887; Lecturer inNew York University Law School, 1893-94; Profes-sor of Law with the subjects of Corporations andSpecial Statutory


. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. PastRegent of the Royal Arcanum, President and lifemember of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, BOSTWICK, Charles Francis Columbia 1886, in Tuckahoe, N. Y., 1866; educated in publicschools; Columbia, 1866; (cum laude),1886; admitted to New York Bar, 1887; Lecturer inNew York University Law School, 1893-94; Profes-sor of Law with the subjects of Corporations andSpecial Statutory Procedure since 1894; NewYork University, 1894, and engaged in the practice oflaw in New York City; served as a member of theSeventh Regiment N. G. N. Y. for thirteen years. CHARLES FRANCIS BOSTWICK, ,Lawyer, Professor of Law in the New YorkUniversity Law School, was born in Tuckahoe,Westchester county, New York, October lo, 1866,the son of Charles Coffin and Mary Frances Good-win Bostwick. He is descended from one of theoldest New England families which settled in Con-necticut before 1640. His great-great-grandfatherwas the Rev. David Bostwick whose portrait and. CHARLES F. BOSTWICK biography are given in Volume H. of UniversitiesAND Their Sons. He was educated in the publicschools of his native place, and entered Columbia,taking the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and his UNIVERSiriES AND rHEIR SONS 113 first law degree from Columbia Law School, aimlaudc, in 1878. He was admitted to the New YorkBar in 1S87, and immediately began the practicein which he has since achieved marked is at present a member of the firm of Bostwick,Morrell & Bates. In 1893, on the invitation ofDean Austin Abbott, a personal friend, he lecturedin the New York University Law School on SpecialStatutory Procedure, and in the following yearreceived the honorary degree of Master of Lawsand was made fifth member of the Law Faculty asProfessor of Corporations and Special Statutory


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