. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ative state, are unsurpassed for their picturesque-ness and truth. See her Life and Letters, byMary E. Dewey (New York, 1871).—ElizabethDwight, author, married Charles, a son of thefirst Theodore, and was well known as a wrote Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays, Lessons without Books, A Talk with my Pu-pils (New York, 1863), and Spanish Conquest.—The second Theodores son Theodore, lawyer, Albany, N. Y., 27 Jan., 1811; d. in Stockbridge,Mass., 9 Dec., 1859, was graduated at Columbia in1829, and admitted to the bar in May, 1833. Thef
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ative state, are unsurpassed for their picturesque-ness and truth. See her Life and Letters, byMary E. Dewey (New York, 1871).—ElizabethDwight, author, married Charles, a son of thefirst Theodore, and was well known as a wrote Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays, Lessons without Books, A Talk with my Pu-pils (New York, 1863), and Spanish Conquest.—The second Theodores son Theodore, lawyer, Albany, N. Y., 27 Jan., 1811; d. in Stockbridge,Mass., 9 Dec., 1859, was graduated at Columbia in1829, and admitted to the bar in May, 1833. Thefollowing fifteen months he passed in Europe, prin-cipally in Paris, as an attache to the U. S. embassyunder Edward Livingston. On his return he prac-tised law successfully in New York till 1850, whenfailing health forced him to desist for a time fromactive professional labor. President Buchanantendered him the mission to the Hague in 1857,and he twice declined the olliee of assistant secre-tary of state. In January. 1858, he was appointed .. U. S. attorney for the southern district of NewYork, which office he held till his death. He waspresident of the New York Crystal palace asso-ciation in 1852. Mr. Sedgwick was a frequentcontributor to periodicals and newspaprrs. andpublished Memoir of William Livingston (NewYork, 1833); What is Monopoly?(1835); State-ment re New York Court of Chancery (ls:;s);Thoughts on the Annexation of Texas, a seriesof papers in opposition to that measure (INHi:Treatise on the Measure of Damages, or an In-quiry into the Principles which govern the Amountof Compensation in Suits at Law (1847); TheAmerican Citizen: a Discourse, at Union College (1847); and Treatise on the Rules which govern theInterpretation and Application of Statutory andConstitutional Law (1857; 2d ed., enlarged, withnotes by John Norton Pomeroy, 1874). He editedthe political writings of William Leggett (2 York, 1840).—The third Theodores son, Ar-thur (Jeorge, lawyer,
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