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him to become a candidate for office. So in when ill-health forced him to resign, and he 1842 he consented to run for the Legislature, died in 1876. and was elected by a large majority. But He was of a remarkable and dignified pre he had no taste for any other life than that sence, full six feet in height, tall, erect, and of a lawyer, and ever after declined any finely formed. He was not calculated to at candidacy for office except such as was con tract the crowd; his nature was moulded in nected with his profession. In 1844 he was too noble a form to delight in the society of made a member of the Constitutional Con any other than the intellectual and cultured. vention, in which body he exercised a master He rarely unbent himself from his dignity ful influence, and aided materially in direct and reserve, except with a few favored in ing and moulding its deliberations. In 1346 timates. But he was a grand man, of the the term of office of Chief-Justice Horn- noblest qualities, both mental and physical; blower expired, and all eyes were turned to he heeded the demands of the community wards Henry W. Green as the man, above upon him as a citizen, and was earnest in all others, fitted for the place. He was not many good works, especially those of a sub a popular man; his manners were austere, re stantial, enduring nature. The cause of edu pulsive to many for their severity; he was a cation received firm and decided support from moody man, at times genial and condescend him in many directions. He was largely in ing, at others repellent and severe, — so that terested in the success and in the affairs of his appointment was not due to any wave of his Alma Mater and in the Princeton Theo popular favor. He was eminently fitted for logical Seminary. For many years he was a the place of Chief-Justice. Not a breath tar Trustee of Princeton College, and for a long nished his fair name, he was of the strictest time previous to his death had been President integrity, he was a profound lawyer, a learned of the Board of Managers of the Seminary. jurist, of a quick, alert mind, capable of the Elias Boudinot Dayton Ogden was the son closest analysis, and able to grasp every of Aaron Ogden, who in his time was one of point involved in a suit, whether counsel had the most prominent citizens of New Jersey, referred to it or not. Many an astute law filling an important office in the Revolution yer, after arguing a case before the court, ary army, after the struggle of the Revolution imagining that he had exhausted argu becoming a lawyer of large practice, a United ment, was quite astonished and somewhat States Senator, and then Governor and mortified, that he had not discovered points Chancellor, besides occupying many other which the Chief-Justice, in his emphatic man less important positions. His son, who be ner, would state in his opinion. His de came an Associate Justice and who was cisions were regarded with great favor by generally known as Dayton Ogden, was born the bar, were rarely overruled by an appellate at Elizabethtown, as it was then called, in court, and have been frequently quoted with' 1800. He graduated from Princeton at the age of nineteen, and immediately began the commendation by English courts. His lan guage was clear and lucid and of the purest study of the law. He was licensed as an attor English, his sentences compact and forceful. ney in 1824, as a counsellor in 1829, and was made a serjeant-at-law in 1837, being the last His charges to juries were models, easily un lawyer in New Jersey who ever received that derstood and rarely antagonized. appointment. When he was licensed he se He remained in office for fourteen years, lected Paterson as the place where he pur two full terms, and then Governor Olden, one posed to practise, and immediately opened an of the wisest men who ever occupied the office at that place. Paterson was then a gubernatorial chair in New Jersey, elevated small struggling town, situate on the Passaic him to the position of Chancellor. He filled River near the falls on that stream. It was the Chancellor's place for nearly a full term,