Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . residentof the State board of public charities in 1873, presi-dent of the State prison association in 1874, andan active member of the New York Committeeof Seventy. On 30 Dec, 1873, Gov. Dix appoint-ed him a member of -the commission of appeals,which in 1874-5 aided the court of appeals toclear its docket. He is an associate editor of the American LawRegister, pub-lished in Philadel-phia, and severalof his contribu-tions have beenpublished sepa-rately, including Trial by Im-peachment (1867).In 1880 he wascounsel for fiveprofessors of An-dover theol
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . residentof the State board of public charities in 1873, presi-dent of the State prison association in 1874, andan active member of the New York Committeeof Seventy. On 30 Dec, 1873, Gov. Dix appoint-ed him a member of -the commission of appeals,which in 1874-5 aided the court of appeals toclear its docket. He is an associate editor of the American LawRegister, pub-lished in Philadel-phia, and severalof his contribu-tions have beenpublished sepa-rately, including Trial by Im-peachment (1867).In 1880 he wascounsel for fiveprofessors of An-dover theologicalseminary, againstwhom complaintst/^W*^ /%CJ?-^ojU—^ of heterodoxy hadfl -^ been made before the board of vis-itors, and his argument was published (Boston,1887). He has also published Charitable Uses,embodying his researches in the Rose will case,argued in New York in 1803 (2 vols., 1803), andother legal arguments, and wrote the first elab-orate report of the State board of charities, ex-hibiting the abuses of the poor-law system
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