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FIELD

ried Jan.

1846,

1861 lie was appointed U.S. deputy sub-treas- urer in New Yoric city, and in 1863-65 was assist- ant secretary of tiie treasury at WashingtoB, D.C. He was collector of internal revenue in New York,

186.5-69, and judge of the 3d district court of New Y'ork city, 1873-74. "'"•"•KOi He was mar-

to Julia, daughter of Daniel Stanton of Stockbridge, Mass., and their son Maunsell Bradhurst, born Oct. 31, 1848, became a lieutenant in the U.S navy, and was married Oct. 35, 1877, to Louise Moore, only daughter of Boltis Moore Segee. He jjublished Adrian, or the Clonds of the Mind (with G. P. R. James, 1853); Poems (1869); and Memoirs of Many Men and Some Women (1874). He died in New York city, Jan. 24, 1H75.

FIELD, Richard Stockton, senator, was born in White Hill, N.J., Dec. 31, 1803; grandson of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was graduated at the Col- lege of New Jersey in 1821, studied law under his uncle, Richard Stockton, and was admitted to the bar in 1825. He represented his district in the state legislature and was attorney-general of the state, 1838^1. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1844. He was appointed by Governor Olden, U.iS. senator in November, 1863, to fill the unexpired term of John Renshaw Thomson, deceased, holding the office until the meeting of the state legislature, when James Walter Wall was elected to com- plete the term ending March 3, 1863. He made an able argument in the senate, maintaining that the right to suspend the writ of habeas cor- pus could only be exercised by the President and that congress had no such power. President Lin- coln appointed him U.S. judge for the district of New Jersey, and he held the office from Jan. 21, 1863, to May 35, 1870. He was a delegate to the Na- tional union convention of 1866 at Philadelphia. He took great interest in educational matters, was professor of constitutional law in the College of New Jersey, 1847-55, president of the board of trustees of the state normal school, 1855-70, and was the author of its reports to the state legis- lature. The College of New Jersey conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1859. He was president of the New Jersey historical soci- ety. Besides his contributions to the publications of the historical society, which included The Priirincial Courts of Neto' Jersey (1849), he pub- lished addre.sses: On the Trial of the Pev. William Tennent for Perjury in 1742 (1851); The Power of Habit (1855); The Constitution not a Compact be-

tween the Sovereign States (1861); On the Life and Character of Chief-Justice Hornbloicer (1865) and On the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln (1866). He died at Princeton, N.J., May 25, 1870. FIELD, Stephen Johnson, juri.st, was born in Haddam, Conn., Nov. 4, 1816; son of the Rev. David Dudley and Submit (Dickinson) Field. His paternal and maternal grandfathers were captains in the American Revolutionary army. He went to .Smyrna with his sister Emilia, wife of the Rev. Josiah Brewer, in 1829, and /f''^ ~ ■^

there had a varied ex- 6^ h |\

perience, including _^ i

shipwreck and nrinis- .,^ '' ," ^

tering to the sufferers _ j

from the plague and cholera. He became familiar with the oriental languages, spent three years in study and observa- tion, visiting Turkey, Greece, Armenia, and

the principal cities y \ i

of Asia Minor, and .,/^c^^-^ti^i^ J'£-c^&-<^ acquired a knowledge

of the spoken languages and religions of the countries visited. He •^as graduated at Wil- liams college in 1837, at the head of the class. He studied law in Albany, N.Y., and in New Y'ork city, in the office of his brother David Dudley, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. While pursuing his law course in Albany he had as an instructor John Van Buren, attorney- general of New York, and for a time he was an in,structor in the Albany Female academy. He was a law partner with his brother, 1841-48. He spent 1849 in Europe, accompanied by his venerable father, and went to Califoi-nia at the close of that year. He reached the embryo city of San Francisco with ten dollars and at the end of his lirst day that sum was reduced to a single dollar, when he presented a letter of intro- duction to a real estate agent, who advised liim to go to Vernon, and sold him sevei-al town lots there on credit. To reach it he took passage on a Sacramento river steamboat to the head of navigation, near the spot where Cajitain Sutter discovered gold. When the steamer reached that "town," finding it wholly submerged by a great flood, with the exception of a solitai'y house, he decided to go further on, and the fol- lowing day arrived at a landing known as Nye's Ranch, near the junction of Feather and Y^uba rivers. This place was called " Y'ubaville. " It had 1000 peo])le and one adobe house, and had been settled about eight days. They rechristened the town Marysville in honor of the only woman