He removed to Morrisania shortly after the settlement of the new village, about tliirty years ago, and opened a law-ofticc where he continued successfully the practice of his profession up to the winter of 1877, when he was compelled to give up business on account of a paralytic stroke. He was an old-school type of a Christian gentleman, highly resi)ected in all the walks of life, and active in the true interests of the society and community in which he lived. He was intimately acquainted with, and highly respected by. the men who were first connected with the growth and prosperity of Morrisania, such as Nicholas McGraw, Jordan L. Mott) Gouverneur, Henry and William H. Morris, Robert H. Elton, Hon. Silas D. Giftbrd and many others and was well known throughout the county. He was naturally of a retiring disposition, and altliough often urged to accept i)ul)lic otHce, he refused. He continued an invalid from 1S77 lo his death, which occurred December 25, 1883, at the homestead in which he had resided for more than twenty-five years. He left two daughters and one son, W. Stcbbins Smith, who is a member of the bar, in active practice, particularly

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Westchester. Mr. Smith studied law in the office of his father and attended the Columbia College Law School, from which institution he received his diploma, and was admitted to the bar June 12, 1871.

KDWAKD TRAFFORD LOVATT.

Mr. Lovatt was born May 22, 1850, at Newark, N. J. His father was .John Lovatt and his mother Mary Ann Lovatt. He was the eldest of six children. Educated both in the ordinary English branches and in the classics in the public schools of that city, he graduated with high honors at the Public High School when he was but fifteen years old, receiving his diploma on July 21, 186').