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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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of Montreal. He has made asocial study of corporation law, and has become an authorityupon it. Among the noteworthy cases in which he has beenengaged, apart from that special line, were the litigation over theHammerstein theatrical enterprises, and the Flechter violin case,in which he was junior counsel. He was also the legal represen-tative of twelve leading New York banks in the matter of thefailure of the Commercial Bank of Selma, Alabama. Mr. Mayer is a member of the Harvard Law Association, theNew York State Bar Association, the Society of Medical Juris-prudence, the Harmonie Club, and the New York Bar Association. Mr. Mayer has entered into a new association of the practiceof the law, since October 1, 1898, with Addison Gk Ricand, thelatter gentleman being the former partner of the late Sol. C. Weill,formerly practising in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina,and at one time having as a partner the present Governor of theState of North Carolina, the Hon. Daniel L. Russell. i I
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HENRY MELVILLE AMONG the first colonists from Great Britain who settled-TX. at Charlestown, Massachusetts, was a family named Mel-ville, which name has since become widely spread and highlyhonored throughout the nation. From it in time descendedJosiah H. Melville, a typical New England farmer of theintelligent, thrifty, and progressive class that contributed somuch to the upbuilding not only of New England but of thewhole United States. He married Nancy R. Nesmith, a memberof the Nesmith family which had for many years been establishedat Londonderry, New Hampshire, and these two made theirhome at Nelson, New Hampshire, in the valley of the AshuelotRiver and within sight of Mount Monadnock. Mr. and Mrs.Melville could reckon among their ancestors at least a dozen menwho had fought in the various colonial wars, and at least tenwho had fought in the patriot army in the War of the Revolution. Of this parentage, and of such antecedents, Henry Melvillewas born, at Nelson, New Hampshire, on A

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