Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . o practise at Ball-ston Centre, and soon became a distinguishedmember of the bar. He was a commissioner tosettle disputes concerning titles to lands in themilitary tract of Onondaga county in 1797, andabout 1800 removed to Albany, which he repre-sented in the legislature of 1804. He was a leaderof the Federalist party in congress from 1809 till1813; a member of the New York assembly from1814 till 1817, and its speaker in 1814; first judgeof the court of common pleas of Dutchess countyfrom 1817 till 1823, and judge of the second judi-cial circuit co
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . o practise at Ball-ston Centre, and soon became a distinguishedmember of the bar. He was a commissioner tosettle disputes concerning titles to lands in themilitary tract of Onondaga county in 1797, andabout 1800 removed to Albany, which he repre-sented in the legislature of 1804. He was a leaderof the Federalist party in congress from 1809 till1813; a member of the New York assembly from1814 till 1817, and its speaker in 1814; first judgeof the court of common pleas of Dutchess countyfrom 1817 till 1823, and judge of the second judi-cial circuit court from 1827 till his resignation,about 1831. He received the degree of LL. D. fromColumbia in 1833.—His son, James, jurist, b. inPoughkeepsie, N. Y., 23 April, 1823; d. there, 11Sept., 1884, received his early education in Pough-keepsie, and in 1838 was graduated at the head ofhis class at Columbia. He then studied law inPoughkeepsie, was admitted to the bar there, andat once began active practice in his native place, EMPARAN ENAMBUC 353. soon taking a prominent position in the Poughkeepsie received its charter, he was elected its first mayor, holding the office fromApril, 1854, to January, 1855, when he resigned to accept the of-fice of justice ofthe New Yorksupreme courtfor the secondjudicial was appointedpresiding judgeof his district in1862, and judgeof the court ofappeals in his termclosed. Pie thenresumed the practice of lawin Poughkeepsie,but removed toNew York cityin 1870. He wasa vice-presidentof the UnionLeague club anda warm support-er of the Union<3ause during the civil war, having taken a promi-nent part in organizing the first regiment sent fromDutchess county. He was one of the founders ofthe New York bar association, and a member ofthe committee of seventy, so largely instrumental inthe overthrow of the Tweed ring in 1870. From1862 till his death he was president of the Mer-chants bank of Poughkeepsie. Judge Emott wa
Size: 1275px × 1960px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidappletonscyc, bookyear1888
