Identifier: volumecommemorat00durs (find matches)
Title: A volume commemorating the creation of the second city of the world : by the consolidation of the communities adjacent to New York harbor under the new charter of the City of New York
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Lawyers Accountants Physicians
Publisher: New York : Republic Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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nd many class honors. He taught Latin and Greekat Monticello Academy for a year, and removing to New York studied law,and wrote Court Eeports and special articles for the Tribune. In 1879 hewas admitted to the Bar and entered the law firm of Cornelius A. Eunkle,counsel for the Tribune, to which position he succeeded on the death of Mr.Eunkle in 1888. In April, 1888, he tormed a partnership with Charles G.Bennett, which continued for six years. In 1894 the firm became Sackett <feMcQuaid. It is now Sackett, Bacon & McQuaid, the junior members of thefirm being Selden Bacon and William A. McQuaid, both Yale men. Mr.Sackett still contributes occasionally to the editorial columns of the Tribune,and has published a valuable little work on the law of libel for the use ofnewspaper men. He has never been a candidate for public office, but hastaken an active part in all reform movements in the municipal affairs of NewYork. He was one of the organizers of the Cornell Club, its President in
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The Bench and Bar of New York. 303 1896 and 1897, and lias been untiring in bis efforts for its success. He wasalso one of the organizers of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. ColonelSackett is an active and influential member of many social organizations, suchas the University, City, and Hardware Clubs, the Association of the Bar,American Geographical Society, Society of the Sons of the American Eevolu-tion, New York Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, ofwhich he is State Attorney, and Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association. Heresides at the Hotel Manhattan in the winter season, and in the summer atMamaroneck, N. Y. In 1886 Colonel Sackett married Elizabeth Titus, ofBrooklyn. Henry W. Scott, the distinguished advocate, judge, jurist and author, is inthe most literal sense of the term, a self-made man. He is the son of CalebLongest and Charlotte Templeton Scott, and is a native of Sangamon County,Illinois. His father was an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, Steph

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