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Title: The New York genealogical and biographical record
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, Richard Henry, 1839-1926 Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909 Dwight, Melatiah Everett Morrison, George Austin, 1864-1916 Mott, Hopper Striker, 1854-1924 Totten, John Reynolds, 1856-1936 Pitman, H. Minot (Harold Minot), 1888- Ditmas, Charles Andrew, 1887-1938 De Forest, Louis Effingham, 1891- Mann, Conklin Maynard, Arthur S New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
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Publisher: New York, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Satterlee, Francis Le Roy, Necrology, 187
Seligman, Isaac Newton, Biographical Sketch, 321
Seligman, Isaac Newton, Necrology, 185
Sergeant John Griffin of Simsbury, Conn., 23
Settlers of the Colony of Rensselaers-
wyck, 1637, 365
Sir William Johnson, 389
Smith, Hon. Abel I., Biographical
Sketch, 105
Society Proceedings, 92, 200, 313
Some Descendants of Stephen Calkins
and Elder Brewster, 17
Special Notice, 91, 192, 320, 393
Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, 27, 124,
229
Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Cor-
rection, 393
The New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Societys Department
of Registration of Pedigrees, 87, 194, 311
The Salmon Records, 64, 154, 265
Tilje- Gerritzen - Letelier, Correction,
192
Tombstone Inscriptions, 377
Tunis Denise of Freehold, New Jersey,
1704-1797. 353
Utter Family, 379
Van Sickle Family, Additions, 84
Vital Statistics, 345
Ward of Connecticut. I. Widow Joice
Ward of Wethersfield, 262
Wendell, Evert Jansen, Necrology, 184
Whitaker, Epher, of Southold, Long
Island, Biographical Sketch, 117
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Joseph Choate


THE NEW YORK
GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
Vol. XLIX. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1918. No. I

HON. JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE.

AN APPRECIALTION BY CHARLES E. RUSHMORE OF THE
NEW YORK BAR.

It has been said of lawyers that their fame is local and tem-
porary, and that only those whose names are attached to some
enduring work as author or Judge are known to the generations
that succeed them. Occasionally, however, there comes a man
who, by virtue of some special quality highly developed, attracts
and holds a broader and more lasting grip on popular con-
sideration. Such a man was Joseph Hodges Choate.
He was pre-eminently an advocate, and his professional
career was a constant series of forensic triumphs that made him
for many years the most conspicuous figure in the legal profession
in this country. He had the faculty of forcing and holding at-
tention, and, in the discussion of complex questions of law, hi
smethods of reasoning were so direct, and his style of presentations
oo simple, that every proposition was grasped without effort, and
interest never flagged.


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