Coffin, are treated of at length in another part of this work.

As we review the Westchester judges and lawyers, their records, professional and otherwise, we readily conclude that the county has been especially gifted in both. Its judges, at least in the past, have been learned, upright and faithful to duty. There is neither record nor tradition that any of them ever was guilty of corrupt or improper conduct in hi» position. Each has left the ermine unsullied.

The lawyers, as a class, have been exceptionally able, dignified, courteous, industrious, true to the interests of their clients and trusted counselors of th court. Many of them, as Benjamin Nicoll, Timoth Wetmore, Richard Morris, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Philip Pell, Richard Hatfield, John Strang- Peter Jay Munro, Edward Thomas, Martin S. Wil kins, Daniel D. Tompkins, William Nelson, Minot Mitchell, Richard R. Voris, Joseph Warren Tomp kins, Albert Lockw'ood, John J. Clapp, Jonatlia Henry Ferris, Amherst Wight, Jr., and Isaiah T Williams, were lawyers of unusual ability and high reputation. By their careers at the bar, they honored] the legal profession, and remain bright examples foi the emulation of their successors.

BIOGRAPHY.'

HON. OAVEN T. COFFIX.

Of the existing generation of public men, there is none who is more thoroughly identified with the public affairs of Westchester County than its present surrogate, Owen T. Coffin, who was born July 17i 1815, at Wa.shington, Dutchess County, N. Y. He is descended from an honorable ancestry, being sixth in the line from Tristram Coffin, who came from Devon-j shire, England, and was subsequently chief magis-| trate of the island of Nantucket. The energy of the ancestor has been impre.ssed upon his descendants, and their name is identified with many of the mosi importantbusiness enterprises of the country. Amon| the most conspicuous of these descendants was Isaa< Coffin, a gallant naval officer, who, previous to thi Revolution, was in the British service, and rising tc the rank of admiral, was knighted by his sovereignj