He studied law with William Nelson, in Peekskill, and after being admitted to practice, was engaged in a number of cases in which Nelson was employed on the other side, and the intellectual combats between the two are yet remembered, by some of the old members of the bar, as having been the occasion of brilliant displays of legal abilities on both sides. Although a brilliant and able man, he seemed averse to business. Had it not been for this fault, it ia thought that he would have obtained a very prominent position at the bar. He died about 1831.
From about 1820 to 1850, Richard R. Voris was the leading advocate of the county. His family was of Dutch origin, and settled at Jamaica, L. 1. He was.
1 Cothren's " History of .\ncient Woodbury, Coun.," vol. i. page G41. He was the grandfather of Chauncey M. Depew
in early life, a merchant in New York City, and after being successful for some time, met with reverses and failed. Then he studied law with McDonald, at one time of the firm of McDonald & Ward. He began the practice of law at Sing Sing about 1820, and continued it there till his death, in 1852. He left a widow and two children, -- Elizabeth L., who became the wife of Marlborough Churchill, and Edgar M., who was for many years a successful physician at New Rochelle.
Richard R. Voris was district attorney for several years before the Constitution of 1846.