New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . udied law in the office of R. H. Huntley, Esq., and attended the law lectures at the Columbia College LawDepartment, from which he received the degree of Master ofLaws. He was called to the bar in May, 1865, and almostimmediately went to Europe and studied for a year in thefamous Cerman University of Heidelberg. Returning to »,New York in 1867 he resumed his law practice and towardsthe close of the year he was offered and declined theDemocratic nomination for member of the Assembly. In1867 he was appointed Law Clerk of the S
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . udied law in the office of R. H. Huntley, Esq., and attended the law lectures at the Columbia College LawDepartment, from which he received the degree of Master ofLaws. He was called to the bar in May, 1865, and almostimmediately went to Europe and studied for a year in thefamous Cerman University of Heidelberg. Returning to »,New York in 1867 he resumed his law practice and towardsthe close of the year he was offered and declined theDemocratic nomination for member of the Assembly. In1867 he was appointed Law Clerk of the Supreme Court Deputy County Clerk, a position he held until1870, when he was elected District Court Judge, and soontook an active part in ojjposition to the Tweed ring. In1877 he was nominated by Anti-Tammany organization forJustice of the Marine Court and would have been electedbut for the treachery of those employed to distribute hisballots. In 1881 he was nominated for the State Senate inthe Tenth District, and though a Democrat was elected, the. JOSEPH KOCH. District being strongly Republican. He was both activeand useful in the Senate and in 1883 called attention tothe devastation of the Adirondack Forest, filing anelaborate report on the subject. He was chairman of manyimportant committees while in the Senate. At the close ofhis senatorial term he once more resumed professional workand practised until ajijxiinted Commissioner of the Depart-ment of Docks by Mayor Crace in 1885. He was sub-secjuently elected Chairman ot. the Commission. He hasalmost from the beginning of his career been identified withthe public schools of the city, and is a man of strongliterary tastes. He has translated from the German,Schillers William Tell. Goethes Faust, from theSpanish the greater ])art of Don Quixote, and from theFrench of Moliere and Racine. He is member of the Man-hattan Club, the Harmonic Social Club, the Progress Club,the Liederkranz Club, the .\rion Club and the
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