His ability as a lawyer, his thoroughness, 1 his keenness in detecting the salient point, and, above all, his judicial temperament, the proprietor of the Chronicle can speak most uncjualifiedly, because he has known Mr. Mills as a fellow law student and a partner in the practice of the law for eight years. In the law school he ranked among the very brightest, keenest, hard-working men, and his record at the Westchester bar is one full of honor."

Only three of the judges of the present Supreme Court have been Westchester men, viz. : tlie late William M. Scrugham, of Yonkers;' Abraham B. Tappan, of Fordham, who is now living, and .Jackson 0. Dykman, the present incumbent.

Judge Dykman- was born in the town of Patterson, in Putnam County. His great-grandfather, .Joseph Dykman, settled in what is now the town of Southeast, in that county, and became a captain in the Continental army in the Revolutionary War.

His early life was the uneventful career of a boy in the country, attending the common school of the neighborhood and working on a farm. In this man-

Sh'c history of that town.

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ner he obtained sufhcient education to enable him to teach a common school at a very early age. He pursued this occupation until he commenced the study of the law in the office of the Hon. William Nelson, then a prominent lawyer at Peekskill, Westchester County, who manifested a lively interest in his advancement, and gave him generous aid. After his admission to the bar, he settled in Cold Spring, Putiuini County, where he was shortly after elected school commissioner, and subsequently district attorney of the county.