. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ex officio on the Board of Governmentof Kings College, now Columbia, and in 1774 re-ceived from that institution the degree of Doctor ofLaws. He also took an active interest in the de-velopment of this College, founding there the Try-onian Professorships. In 1778 he resigned theGovernorship of New York and returned to Eng-land being promoted to a Major-Generalship in thatyear and became Lieutenant-General in 1782.
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ex officio on the Board of Governmentof Kings College, now Columbia, and in 1774 re-ceived from that institution the degree of Doctor ofLaws. He also took an active interest in the de-velopment of this College, founding there the Try-onian Professorships. In 1778 he resigned theGovernorship of New York and returned to Eng-land being promoted to a Major-Generalship in thatyear and became Lieutenant-General in 1782. Hedied in London, February 27, 178S. McNULTY, Albert Columbia 1861, 1864Born in New York City, 1840; educated at ChurchillsMilitary School, Sing Sing, N. Y. ; graduated Colum-bia, 1861 ; Columbia Law School, 1864; practised lawone year in New York City; in the insurance businessthere since 1865. ALBERT McNULTY, Business Man, was bornin New York City, April 5, 1840, the son ofAlbert and Augusta Rebecca (Sackett) received his early education in private schools,and went from Marlborough Churchills MilitaryBoarding School, Sing Sing, New York, to Columbia,. ALl:lja graduating from the .Academic Department in his return from the South, where he went as amember of the Seventh New York Regiment at theopening of the Civil War, he became a student atthe Columbia Law School, graduating in 1864 anddelivering the Valedictory .\ddress. He began thepractice of law in the office of Judge Blatchford inNew York, but remained in the profession only oneyear, or until the death of his father in 1865, whenhe succeeded to his extensive insurance i, 1867, Mr. McNulty married Mary Knee-land, grand-daughter of the Rev. John McVickar,, for more than fifty years a Professor in Colum-bia. He has had nine children, seven of whom areliving, two having died in 1888. 232 UNIVKRSiriES AND THEIR SONS SKIDMORE, John Drake Columbia 1849, 185
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