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 . o allow the use of his name in1880 and 1884. During the latter years of his lifeMr. Tilden was probably the cliief figure in thedemocratic party, and his opinion was sought on allq
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 . o allow the use of his name in1880 and 1884. During the latter years of his lifeMr. Tilden was probably the cliief figure in thedemocratic party, and his opinion was sought on allquestions of state or national politics. His last im-portant expression of opinion was in a letter to J. , then speaker of the house, urging the ne-cessity of liberal appropriations for of coastdefences, that the seaboard of the country might besecured against naval attacks. He died at his coun-try bouse, Orevstone, near Yonkers, N. Y., A>ig. 4,1886, leaving a large part of his fortune of |5,000,0p0to found a free library in New York; but his heirs(he was a bachelor) contested the will, which wasbroken, after which the heirs contributed a muchsmaller sum to endow the library. Probably drew more wills disposing of large estates,than any man in the legal profession, biit when mak-ing his own, he did not succeed in avoiding legal ob-structions, which invalidated the instrument. A. campaign life of him was written by T. P. Cook(1876); his Writings and Speeches were editedby John Bigelow(2 vols., 1885). ROBINSON, Lucius, governor of New York(1877-80), was born in Windham, Greene Co., N. Y.,Nov. 4, 1810. After receiving a common-school ed-ucation, he was sent to the academy in Delhi, Dela-ware Co., N. Y., where he completed his began to study law, passed through an office, andin 1833 was admitted to the bar. Receiving the ap-pointment of district attorney was the first honorwhich fell to him, and in 1843 he was made masterin chancery for
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