. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. Yale in Pompey, N. Y , 1821 ; graduated Yale, 1841 ;studied law and was admitted to practice, 1844 ; locatedin New York City, 1844; firm of Kirkland & Birdseyeestablished, 1850; appointed Judge of the SupremeCourt, 1856; engaged in extended practice from 1858;died 1896. LUCIEN BIRDSEYE, Jurist, at one time Judgeof the Supreme Court of the State of New\ork, was born in Pompey, Onondaga county. New Yo
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. Yale in Pompey, N. Y , 1821 ; graduated Yale, 1841 ;studied law and was admitted to practice, 1844 ; locatedin New York City, 1844; firm of Kirkland & Birdseyeestablished, 1850; appointed Judge of the SupremeCourt, 1856; engaged in extended practice from 1858;died 1896. LUCIEN BIRDSEYE, Jurist, at one time Judgeof the Supreme Court of the State of New\ork, was born in Pompey, Onondaga county. New York, October lo, 1821, the third son of the Birdseye, Representative in Congress fromthe State of New York and Electa (Beebee) Birds-eye, daughter of Captain James Beebee of theRevolutionary Army. The family is of the bestConnecticut stock ; his great-grandfather, the Birdseye (Yale 1736) lived to reach his onehundred and fourth year, and preached and con-ducted divine service after he had passed the ageof a century. Lucien Birdseye was fitted for Col-lege at the .Academy in Pompey and, entering Yale,was graduated from that University in the Class of. LUCIEN BIRDSEYE 1841. On leaving College he commenced the studyof law in his fathers office at Pompey, continuingpreparation for the Bar in the office of Kirkland &Bacon, in L^tica, New York. In 1844 he was ad-mitted as an attorney, and the same year establishedhiinself in practice in .Albany, New York, where hewas admitted as Solicitor in Chancery and Coun-sellor-at-Law and in Chancery. For six years heremained in Albany, and in 1850, when his formerpreceptor, Mr. Kirkland, removed his business fromUtica to New York City, Mr. Birdseye accepted theinvitation to join him in partnership in that law firm of Kirkland & Birdseye was establishedthere, May i, 1850, and continued, with somechanges in its membership, for many years. In 70 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 1856 on the death of William Rockwell, Judg
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