Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . graphy and genealogy, andwas an authority in dramatic matters. His publi-cations include pamphlets on a wide range of sub-jects, many of them being exhaustive monographs,and he was a frequent lecturer before learned socie-ties and made public addresses. Columbia conferredupon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in i860,and for fifteen years he was Lecturer on Law in thatUniversity. He died in New York City, September1
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . graphy and genealogy, andwas an authority in dramatic matters. His publi-cations include pamphlets on a wide range of sub-jects, many of them being exhaustive monographs,and he was a frequent lecturer before learned socie-ties and made public addresses. Columbia conferredupon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in i860,and for fifteen years he was Lecturer on Law in thatUniversity. He died in New York City, September19, 1899. i UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 363 FISH, Nicholas Columbia 1867 — Harvard , in New York City, 1846; educated at privateschools in New York and Switzerland; graduatedColumbia, 1867; Harvard Law School, 1869; andadmitted to New York Bar; Second Secretary ofUnited States Legation at Berlin, 1871-74; First Sec-retary, 1874-77; Charg6 daffaires to Switzerland, 1877-81; Minister to Belgium, 1881-85; Presidential Elector,1896. NICHOLAS FISH, Lawyer and Diplomat, is anative of New York City and comes of oneof the best known families in the history of the. NICHOLAS FISH State. His father, Hamilton Fish, was one of themost prominent of American Statesmen prior toand during the period following the Civil \\ar, antlserved successively as Member of Congress, Lieu-tenant-Governor and Governor of New York State,United States Senator, and finally as Secretary ofState, in the conduct of which office he showedgreat skill and diplomacy during a very tryingperiod of our history. Hamilton Fish was a sonof Colonel Nicholas Fish, Aide-de-Camp to GeneralHamilton during the Revolution. Nicholas Fish isdescended through his mother, Julia Kean, from anold Revolutionary family, her father having been adelegate to the Federal Constitutional Conventionin 17S7. He received his early education in aprivate school at White Plains, later at a private school in Switzerland, and finall
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