Identifier: newyorkmetropoli00spra_0 (find matches)
Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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rary newspaper of the college. Someof the editors of college papers it was, Mr. Peckham notice-able among them, who eftected elective instead of compulsory attendance at chapel. Mr. Peckham also studied inHeidelberg, Germany, and won specialists certificates inthe years 68 and 69. He received the degree of LL.B.from the University Law School and was called to thebar in 1870. Previous to this he studied law in the officesof Joseph H. Choate and William Maxwell Evarts. .\sa lawyer Mr. Peckham will long be remembered in con-nection with the robbery of the Northampton NationalBank, which was looted of $2,000,000. It was the greatestrobbery on record. Mr. Peckham, in behalf of the bank,brought suit against various stock brokers and others whohad received some of the stolen securities, and alsodefended suits brought against the bank in the same matter.Many of the suits were carried to the Court of Appeals inAlbany and the Supreme Court in Washington, and he was 5° NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS.
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51 invariably sucressful. He has been retained in all the suitsagainst the New York Elevated Railroad, and, in fact, hisforte is railroad litigation, though he, with his partner, Mr.Tyler, engages in general civil litigation. Mr. Peckhanf isindependent in politics. He has been for six years acolleague of George W. Curtis and Carl Schurz on the com-mittee that managed the independent part of the Clevelandcampaign of 1884, and was Chairman of the New JerseyMugwumps in the same year. Notwithstanding themansbusy life he has found time to indulge in sports of whichhe is fond, and is a crack shot and excellent fisherman.He is member of the Lawyers Club, Bar Association, ReformClub,Common wealth Club and Newjersey Historical Society. GRAEME MONROE HAMMOND, M.D. Tliis is an epoch in the medical history of the countrywhen specialists are taking the front place in the profession.Dotted here and there we find among the most successfulphysicians and surgeons those who have made a specialstudy of

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