. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. nd to him most of all wasdue the origin of the Mobile Board of Trade, andthe Mobile Bar Library. He never sought anyoffice, and more than once refused a seat on theState Supreme Bench. He was twice married, thefirst time to Anna M. Beers, in 1840, by whom hehad two daughters and two sons. He married Goodman in 1862, who survived him,dying in 1892. Mr. Hamilton was stricken withapoplexy in IVLarch 1885
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. nd to him most of all wasdue the origin of the Mobile Board of Trade, andthe Mobile Bar Library. He never sought anyoffice, and more than once refused a seat on theState Supreme Bench. He was twice married, thefirst time to Anna M. Beers, in 1840, by whom hehad two daughters and two sons. He married Goodman in 1862, who survived him,dying in 1892. Mr. Hamilton was stricken withapoplexy in IVLarch 1885, and never fully recoveredfrom this attack, dying at his home in Mobile onthe 2 2d of November, 1888. years a prisoner. His maternal grandfather,Severyn Bruyn, was a graduate of Princeton in theClass of 1803. The subject of this sketch receivedhis preliminary education at the public schools ofKingston, also attended a boarding school at New-port, Rhode Island. He graduated from Princetonwith the Class of 1867. He afterwards took acourse at the Columbia Law School in New YorkCity in the Class of 1879, and in the following yearreceived the degree of Master of Arts from Prince-. FORSYTH, Severyn Bruyn Princeton A B. in Kingston, N. Y., 1846; received his earlyeducation at the public schools of Kingston and at aboarding school in Newport, ; graduated Prince-ton, 1867; student at Columbia Law School in the Classof 1879. SEVKRVN BRUYN LORSYlH was born inKingston, New York, December 6, 1846, theson of James Christie and Mary (Bruyn) paternal grandfather, John Forsyth, came fromScotland in the early part of the nineteenth centuryand settled in Newburgh, New York. His malrrualgreat-gran<lfather was entered at Primeton but leftbefore graduating and entered the Colonia! Army asa Captain, raising and equipping his own Compan\.He afterwards served as Lieutenant-Colonel, wascaptured at Fort Montgomery, confined on tlicprison-shi]) Jersey, and was for more than t
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