They have two children, Jessie and Stanley, both now living with their jjarents at Marble Hall.

Judge Gifford lives in the village of Tuckahoe, in the town of East Chester, in a mansion known far and wide as "Marble Hall." It stands upon the site of the home of Stephen Ward, a prominent Revolutionary hero, who was surrogate of the county and a citizen of character and influence. This locality was the scene of a sanguinary conflict between the contending forces in the Revolution, when Ward's house was burned.

The present incumbent, Isaac N. Mills, of East Chester, was chosen at the election of 1883 to succeed Judge Gifibrd, and is the present county judge. The following sketch of Judge Mills is taken from the)l| Mount Vernon Chronicle of October 19, 1883, and is inserted in this chapter upon the sole responsibility of the editor :

" It is unnecessary for us to tell the people of the town of East Chester who the Republican nominee for county judge is ; but in order that those outside of our town who do not know him may be able to fully realize his fitness for the office he seeks, the following sketch of his life may prove useful :

" He is a descendant, on his father's side, from a family of farmers, of moderate means, who have resided and filled farms in the town of Thompson, Windham Co., Connecticut, prior to the Revolutionary War. On his mother's side, he is descended from a family of Rhode Island Quakers, residents of that State for many generations, to a branch of which family General Greene, of Revolutionary fame, belongs. Mr. Mills was born in the town of Thompson, Conn., September 10, 1851, and is, therefore, thirty-two years of age. At the age of seventeen he decided to become a lawyer and entered the Providence Conference Seminary, at Greenwich, R.