The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . politics he was brought up a democrat, workedwith the Union party through the war, a liberal re-publican thereafter. In 1873 he was identified withthe party which nomina
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . politics he was brought up a democrat, workedwith the Union party through the war, a liberal re-publican thereafter. In 1873 he was identified withthe party which nominated Horace Greeley forpresident. He was a candidate for the assa^bly,and though defeated, ran several hundred ahead ofhis ticket. He has been well known in social life inBrooklyn for many years, and assisted in foundingthe Oxford, Montauk, and Brooklyn Gun clubs, andwas vice-president of the latter. He is also a mem-ber of the Hamilton club, Brooklyn club, Carltonclub of Brooklyn, of the Lawyers club of NewYork, the New York Law Institution, Brooklyn Barassociation. Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi clubsof New York, and of several other college societies,and of the society of the Sons of the Revolution, be-ing one one of the few real living sons of revolution-ary soldiers. He married, in 1868, Adelaide Eddy,daughter of Geo. W. Eddy, of Waterf ord, N. Y., a de-scendant of one of the early New England 124 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA
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