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was Thp. Great Jiuby, a melodr-inia. first produced iu America at Daly's Theatre, New York cit\, in lyyS-itU. He wrote Life of Ten W(>£i)i<jtim (1888). He died in Paris, France, June 7, 1891). DALY, Charles Patrick, jurist, was born in New York city, Oct. '•)[. 181G: the son of a master carpenter who emip^rated from Omagh in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1814 and settled in New York city. He was educated in a parish school and upon the death of his father lie went to Savannah, Ga., where he served as a clerk. Be- coming discon- tented by reason of ill treatment he sliipped before the mast and followed the sea for three years. Upon re- turning to New York he was ap- prenticed to a quill manufacturer, and wliile serving his time devoted his evenings to study. His connection with a debating so- ciety led him to form the acquaintance of William Soule, a well-known lawyer, who induced him to take up the study of law, offering him a clerkship in his office and a salary of $100 the fir.st year. Within three years he passed a successful exami- nation and the seven-year rule being susjiended by the court, he was admitted to practice in 1839. He formed a partnersluii with Thomas L. McElrath, afterward a partner with Horace Greeley in the founding of the New York Tribune. In 1843 he was elected to the state assembly and declined a nomination as representative in the 29th congress in 1844. The same year he was ap- lX)inted judge of the court of common pleas, and was successively reapixiinted as his own suc- cessor until 1840 when the position was made elective and the voters continued him on the bench. In 1857 he was elected first judge and in 1871, when the term was lengthened to fourteen years, all parties placed his name on their respective tickets and he was unanimously elected, being obliged to retire in 1885 under the law of age limit. He served as chief justice of the court during the last twenty-eight years of his service. The bench and bar of New York made the occasion of his retirement a public ova- tion and presented him with approjiriate resolu- tions and the gavel he had so long wielded encaserl in gold and duly inscribed. Upon retir- ing from the bencli he establislied liimself in

chambers and had a large and lucrative practice. He was a friend and aavisor of the administra- tion during the civil war and was consulted on impurtaut legal state matters, including the ren- dition of Mason and Slidell, the Confederate com- missioners. He was lecturer on law in Columbia college, 18(30-75, president of the American geo- graphical society from 1866, an honorary member of the Royal geographical society ol London, Eng- land, of the Berlin geographical society and of tiie Imperial geograpliical society of Russia, and did much to promote exploration and polar re- search. He was also a member of the New York .state constitutional convention of 1867; of the New York historical society; of the Philosophical society of Pennsylvania; of the Century a.s80cia- tion, and of St. Patrick's society, of which he was president for many years. In 1895 he was chosen to respond on behalf of the delegates to the ad- dress of welcome to them by the president, the Duke of York, at the opening of the World's geograpliical congress at London, England. In 1860 Columbia college conferred on him the honorary degree of LL. D. He published: Histor- ical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York from 1623 to 1S46 (1855); Histoi-y of Naturaliza- tion and of Its Laics in Different Countries (ISQO); Are Southern Privateersmen Pirates? (1862); Origi- nal History of Listitutions for the Promotion of Ufi- fore the time of Mercator (1879); The Histot-y of Physical (Geography; and The Common Lair; Its Origin, Sources, Nature and Development, and What the Statu has done to Improve Upon It (1894). He died at Sag Harbor, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1899.

DALY, Joseph Francis, jurist, was born in Plymouth, N.C., Dec. 3, 1840; son of Denis and Elizabeth Therese (Dulfey) Daly, and grandson of Michael Daly of Limerick and of Lieut. John Duffey of Carlow. His fatiier was at first jjurser's clerk in the Britisli navy and afterward captain in the merchant service. He built and siiiled his own ve.ssels. and in 1836 became a dealer in lum- ber and a shipping merchant in Plymouth, N.C. He died in 1841 and subsequently his widow, with her two sons, Augustin, aged eleven, and Joseph Francis, aged nine, removed to New York city, where better educational advantages might be afforded the sons. Jo.seph, after his public school training, was admitted as a law .student to the office of S. W. and R. B. Roo.sevelt in 1855 and gained his diploma as attorney and counsellor-at- law in 186'2. On the retirement of the Messrs. Roosevelt in 1865 lie succeeded to the business.