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 . lumes of Paigeand Barbours Reports (1830-49), and in the thirty-eight of Wendell, Hill, and Denio (court of errors)(1829-50). In 1832 Walworth, with Dr. Nott and B. , adjus
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 . lumes of Paigeand Barbours Reports (1830-49), and in the thirty-eight of Wendell, Hill, and Denio (court of errors)(1829-50). In 1832 Walworth, with Dr. Nott and B. , adjusted a dispute between Georgia and theU. S. supreme court. In 1835 he received the de-gree of from Princeton. In 1844 his namewas urged for the supreme court, and sent in byPresident Tyler, but not confirmed. He was twiceappointed chairman of a committee to codify thestate laws, in 1847 and 1849, but decUned. After,the abolition of his court in 1848 he gave his atten-tion only to chamber practice. His house, PineGrove, was for many years the frequent resort ofthe most eminent men of the state, and of not a fewfrom greater distances. The chancellor was a Presby-terian elder, long president of the state and nationaltemperance societies, a vice-president of the Bibleand Tract societies, and a member of the A. B. M. He published in 1864 the Hyde Genealogy,two volumes. He died at Saratoga Nov. 21, OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 57 ^?^NDALL, Samuel Jackson, statesman,member of congress and speaker of the house of rep-resentatives, was born in Philadelphia Oct. 10, was the eldest son of Josiah Randall, a notedlawyer of that city, and of Ann Worrell, daughterof Joseph Worrell, a prominent democratic politicalleader in the days of Jefferson. Young Randall ob-tained his preliminary education in the commonschools and in the University Academy in Philadel-phia, where he completed his education. From therehe went to the business establishment of Hallowell& Co., silk mercha
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