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

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

the management of several large estates, viz. : the Hunter, Overing, Van Cortlandt and other estates. He bore a conspicuous part in several of those noted ejectment suits, in which the title of large tracts of land held under patents in Ulster, Sullivan, Greene and Delaware Counties were tested.

About 1850 he was married to a daughter of the late Captain Josiah Le Count, and had one son, John

H. , who is now a prominent lawyer in New York City. As a speaker, he was brilliant and captivating.

A devoted adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he was ordained as a lay preacher, and on several occasions ])reached eloquent sermons to large audiences. He died at New Rochelle, October 16, 1876, at the age of fifty-two. Although he did not participate largely in the general practice of law, owing to his special engagements, and so did not become as widely known in the county as a lawyer as some others; yet he was a man of superior qualities, and well deserves to be I'emembered.