from his labors, except amid the habitations of the dead.

"In that silent resting place, we leave him to the rewards which are promised to the pure in spirit, the blameless in life, and the upright in heart."

DANIEL LORD.

His name intimately associated with the Bar of the State.-Lord Brougham's description of Percival applies to Mr. Lord.-Mr. Lord as a Counselor and Advocate.His Birth.-A Son of Dr. Daniel Lord.-Character of Dr. Lord.-His Heroic Conduct During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in New York, in 1798.-The Early Home of Daniel Lord.-His love for it.-Daniel Prepares for College.Studies the French Language.-His love of that Language continued through Life. Continues to Read French Authors.-Describes Voltaire in a Letter to a Friend. Enters Yale College.-Dr. Dwight.-The Books which Mr. Lord Read while in College.-His Love of the Bible.-Pleasing Incident on Board of a Steamboat.-Mr. Lord Believed to be a Distinguished Clergyman.-How the Mistake was Discovered.-A Pious Lawyer Found.-Mr. Lord Decides to Enter the Legal Profession.-Enters the Office of George Griffin as a Student.-Description of Mr. Griffin.-The Great Trial of the People v. Goodwin.-Mr. Griffin's Great Speech.-Scene at the Trial.-Mr. Lord Admitted to the Bar.-His Marriage. His Discouraging Prospects as a Lawyer.- Prosperity Slowly Commences.-Death of a favorite Child.-Its Effect on Mr. Lord.-Mr. Lord Continues his Struggles to Gain a Foothold in the Profession.-Mr. Lord and Charles O'Conor. Anecdote Related by Mr. O'Conor.-Mr. Lord at last Gains a High Reputation in the City Courts.-His First Case in the Supreme Court.-Mr. Lord as a Chancery Lawyer.-The Case of Grover v. Wakeman.-Argues it against Abraham Van Vechten and William H. Seward.-Lord Succeeds.-Case Appealed to Court of Errors.-Mr. Lord argues it in that Court against Samuel A. Talcott and Benjamin F. Butler.-Talcott and Butler described.-Mr. Lord again Succeeds.-Result of his Success.-Important Cases in which he was Engaged, described. Mr. Lord's Love of Literature.-Mr. Evarts a Student in his Office. -Anecdote of Mr. Evarts.-Mr. Lord's Habits.-His Domestic and Religious Character. He unites with the Brick Church in New York.-Remark of Rev. J. O. Murray. Mr. Lord Threatened with Paralysis.-Fears of his Family.-Touching Scene in his Family Devotion.-The Dreaded Hour.-Scene of his Death.

No name is more intimately associated with the bar of the State of New York than that of Daniel Lord no name calls up more pleasing recollections than his; for in him were blended those qualities which are admired by the man of business, the scholar, the lawyer, the judge, and all who venerate virtue, religion, and talent.

As Lord Brougham said of Percival, "He was a warm and steady friend, a man of the strictest integ

rity and nicest sense, both of honor and justice, in all the relations of society wholly without a stainthough envy might find whereon to perch, malice itself, even in the exasperating collisions of the bar, never could descry a spot on which to fasten."

As a counselor and advocate, his characteristic features were strength and originality of thought. His intellectual efforts brought with them, both in form and style, the stamp of his own mind and of mental independence. His mind was a well arranged legal library, where he could easily lay his hand upon whatever he desired. He was always strong before a jury, and in cases which called out all his faculties, he was eloquent, often impressive, occasionally ardent, though his ardor was rather the offspring of strong reason than the flow of imagination-the result of a strong prepossession of the justice of his case, than the power of sentiment or of ideality.

He made no claim to the external graces of the orator-no parade of learning. He did not enter any field of argument in the glittering panoply of science and erudition, wielding at pleasure all its arms; but like Hercules with his club, he used a single massive weapon familiar to his hand, smoothed and polished by frequent use, and that was the law. He entered the legal profession in the glow of youthful ambition, gradually winning his way to its highest honors,-in the meridian of his life a chieftain; in its decline a veteran-a champion with his armor on, still braced for the contest-moving triumphantly over that field of strife which he never abandoned for political distinction or the emoluments of office.

He was born at Stonington, Connecticut, on the second day of September, 1795. He was an only child of Dr. Daniel Lord, a physician of respectable attainments, but a man little calculated for the rough contacts and hard struggles of life. Dreamy and scholastic in his nature, with a book ever before him, he would forget his trials in the beautiful creations of

the poet-in the realms of science, or in the scenes presented by the historian, where monarchs, heroes, and martyrs are actors; and, therefore, though he acquired a competence, he never amassed riches.

In the year 1797, Doctor Lord removed to the city of New York, where he entered into a practice which promised to be lucrative; but at a period when his professional success began to have the appearance of certainty, he relinquished it, strange as it may seem, after having won public commendation for his heroic devotion to the sick during the prevalence of the yellow fever which raged so fearfully in New York in the year 1798.

The first victim of that appalling scourge was attacked on the 29th day of July, and died after a very short illness. Though his case was attended by most malignant symptoms, such was the healthiness of the city at the time, that his death excited no alarm. The deceased was a merchant whose store was in Front-street near Coenties-slip, and it was believed he was taken ill at his store. A few days after his death, several persons in that locality were attacked with the same sickness; but as their symptoms resembled a common cold, they did not regard the matter serious enought to call a physican. When at length medical aid was sought, they learned to their horror that they were suffering with the yellow fever, and beyond recovery. In a short time the disease spread to New-slip, Cliff-street, John-street, and other parts of the city; in some places not a family escaped its ravage; death, terror and misery reigned on every side. For a time it seemed as though the death angel was hovering over the city, and many fled from it as from the caverns of destruction.

At first, funeral processions followed one another in rapid succession; but at length this respect for the dead was abandoned, and they were hurried to the grave in carts and drays, with no ceremony what

ever.

Many of the physicians in the city, actuated by the love of life, fled to places of safety in the course of time many others were stricken down by the disease, leaving scarcely enough of the medical fraternity to attend to the sufferers.

Amid this pestilence, which indeed walked in darkness, Doctor Lord devoted himself to its victims with unwearied energy and calm fortitude. In the homes of the wealthy, in the abodes of poverty, by night and by day, he was constantly at the side of the suffering and dying. Around him flew the invisible arrows of death. Still he adhered inflexibly to his duty, bravely continuing at his post. With scientific observation he watched the effect of his prescriptions, carefully noting every phase of the disease; like a skillful general, valiantly resisting the attacks of his enemies, and preparing to repulse new onsets. He thus learned the nature of the disease and the mode of treating it,—and this knowledge subsequently became of immense value to his professional brethren.

At length the pestilence passed away, health and prosperity returned to the city, and Doctor Lord retired from the duties of his profession and engaged in the occupation of a druggist.

Mr. Lord's mother was a superior woman, who exerted an excellent influence over him, and he ever regarded her with affection and veneration.

For a time, the business affairs of Dr. Lord progressed favorably. His business, though not extensive, was sufficiently remunerative to enable him to educate his son, while it furnished him a respectable livelihood. But in the decline of his life, pecuniary difficulties overtook him, which swept away nearly all his property. Fortunately for him, his son, long before this, had entered the battle of life, and if his advance had not been brilliant, it was sure and certain; he had already won a competence, and he prepared a home for his aged parents, where,