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 . e White House, the bridebeing given away by President John Quincy Sanford died in Flushing, N. Y., leaving a son,Edward, who became well-known as a contributorof prose an
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 . e White House, the bridebeing given away by President John Quincy Sanford died in Flushing, N. Y., leaving a son,Edward, who became well-known as a contributorof prose and verse to the magazines of his time andas an editorial writer on the staffs of New York andBrooklyn papers. He died in 1876. Mr. Sanforddied Oct. 17, 1838. KENT, James, chancellor of the state of NewYork, was born at Fredericks, Putnam Co., N. Y., *July 31, 1763. His grandfather, Elisha Kent, was agraduate of Yale, and a Presbyterian minister atPhilippi, N. Y., where he died in 1776, and hisfather, Moses Kent, also a graduate of Yale, was alawyer and surrogate of Rensselaer county. Jameswas one of the founders of the Phi Beta Kappa So-ciety at Yale College, from which he was graduatedinl781. Having decided upon the law, heenteredtheoffice of EgbertSenson, and was admitted to thebrrin 1785. He practiced law in Poughkeepsie, whe ?he rose early in the morning and devoted his leisu: j 56 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. time to the study of the classics and modern lan-guages. He was sent to the New York assembly in1790 and 1792, and, having meanwhile removed toNew York city, was again elected in 1796. He wasnominated for congress in 1793 as a federalist, butwas defeated. Shortly after settling in New Yorkcity he was appointed professor of law at ColumbiaCollege, a position which he held until 1798. Hisability was recognized by such men as Hamilton andJay, with whose political piinciples Kent was in fullsympathy, and in 1798 Jay, thengovernor of New York, appoint-ed him a justice of tlie
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