New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . eWilliam C. Peckham, the well-known New York lawyer,who besides lieing eminently successful in his professionhas ])ul)lished more than one volume of poems, hasbeen instrumental in reforming and ]nirifying jjolitics, andhas erected the charming little building known as University Inn on Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for theconvenience of college men. It is seldom that a good poetmakes a good lawyer, and rarer still that the combination,when it exists at all, makes a practical business man. has broken this general r
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . eWilliam C. Peckham, the well-known New York lawyer,who besides lieing eminently successful in his professionhas ])ul)lished more than one volume of poems, hasbeen instrumental in reforming and ]nirifying jjolitics, andhas erected the charming little building known as University Inn on Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for theconvenience of college men. It is seldom that a good poetmakes a good lawyer, and rarer still that the combination,when it exists at all, makes a practical business man. has broken this general rule in many places, forbesides being a jioet, a lawyer, a reformer and collegephilanthropist, in his way, he is essentially a inan of affairsand he does everything well. Mr. Peckham was born inNewport, R. I., on February 7, 1849, and graduated fromHarvard College in the class of 1867, when at the age ofeighteen. Since then Harvard has not, and would not,graduate a man under twenty. He was what mav be termeda bright and aggressive student. He was first editor of the. WILLIAM G. Jlarvard Colle^^iaii, and of its successor, the Harvard Advo-cate, which is still the literary newspaper of the college. Someof the editors of college papers it was, Mr. Peckham notice-able among them, who eftected elective instead of compulsory attendance at chapel. Mr. Peckham also studied inHeidelberg, Germany, and won specialists certificates inthe years 68 and 69. He received the degree of the University Law School and was called to thebar in 1870. Previous to this he studied law in the officesof Joseph H. Choate and William Maxwell Evarts. .\sa lawyer Mr. Peckham will long be remembered in con-nection with the robbery of the Northampton NationalBank, which was looted of $2,000,000. It was the greatestrobbery on record. Mr. Peckham, in behalf of the bank,brought suit against various stock brokers and others whohad received some of the stolen securities, and alsodefended suits brou
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