After graduating at Yale College, in 1824, he was commissioned aid-de-camp toGovernor De Witt Clinton, with the title of colonel, which post he soon relinquished, and from 1826 spent four years in Europe, traveling extensively and pursuing legal studies in Edinburgh.
I Upon his return he entered the office of Peter A, Jay, then a well-known lawyer in New York. For a number of years afterward he resided in Albany and
I Rensselaer County, but the last twenty years of his life were spent at his home at Manursing Island, near Rye, Westchester County. He died in New Y'ork, November 13, 1872.
He inherited from his distinguished father many noted characteristics. Conspicuous among these was a true simplicity. Free from all pretension and eminently unselfish, he found his happiness in a life of retirement and in unobtrusive but earnest endeavors to do good. A genuine sympathy with works of Christian
^ benevolence was another inherited trait. He was an
I attentive observer of the great and philanthropic movements of the day and a most liberal supporter of every worthy cause whose claims were brought to his notice.
■ A man of noble impulses and clear convictions, he was no less decided in the rebuke of injustice and iniquity that in the approval of that which was good.
The uprightness and elevation, the kindliness and generosity of his nature, his fine intellectual gifts and
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high culture, and with all an unaffected humility, the fruit of true religion, made him the marked example of a Christian gentleman.