He was admitted to the bar about 1842, began the practice of his profession in Peekskill, and soon afterwards entered into a partneiship with Calvin Frost, which lasted for many years. A number of years before the close of his life he went to New York and practiced there. Later he went to Haverstraw, and finally he returned to Peekskill. The following year he fell into the Hudson River from a dock in New York while preparing to board a steamboat for Peekskill, and contracted pneumonia therefrom, which resulted in his death, on June 7, 1873.

Mr. Ferris was a man of brilliant abilities, which became obscured to a degree by some unfortunate habits into which he fell. He was refined in his tastes, quick in his conceptions, emotional and sympathetic in his disposition, polished in his manners and graceful and effective in speaking and writing. He was a great reader, and was possessed of vast stores of information. He built up a large practice.

Leonard P. Miller who lived in New Rochelle for many years, and practiced somewhat in this county, was a man of rare ability as a speaker. He was a son of Nicholas Miller, a school-teacher, and afterwards, from 1845 to 1855, a hotel-keeper at New Rochelle. He graduated at Columbia College with a higla reputation as a scholar, especially in the classics, and was offered a professorship in Greek at that college. He was for many years a tutor in the family of John Hunter, of Hunter's Island, and educated the grandson, the present John Hunter. While in that position his unoccupied time was devoted to the study of law, under the instruction of W'illiara W. McClelan, and about 1850 he was duly admitted to practice. His time and attention were chiefly occupied with