Studies In New York After: SEABURY, Samuel, American lawyer and judge: h. New York, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1873; d. East Hampton, N.Y., May 7, 1958. His investigation of corruption in New York City government earned him a national reputation as a foe of boss rule and champion of honest city administration. The son of Rev. William Jones Seabury ant' a great-great-grandson of Samuel Seabury, who was the first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, he was educated by his father and in New York private day schools. The New York Law School conferred on him the LL.B. degree in 1893; he continued his studies during a postgraduate year and was admitted to the bar in 1894.
29. Photographic News, vol. 4 (1860), p. 13.
30. Ibid.
31. "Flashes from the Slums," The New York Sun, February
12, 1888.* 32.Ibid.
33. Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York (New York: Charles Scrib-ner's Sons, 1890).
34. Jacob A. Riis, Children of the Poor (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1892), pp. 77-82.
35. Quoted by Jean Adhemar, "Emile Zola, Photographer," in Van Deren Coke, ed., One Hundred Years of Photographic History (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975), p. 4.
36. Photo-Miniature, no. 21 (December 1900), p. 396.
37. Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, 20 vols. plus 20 portfolios (New York: Published by the author, 1907-30).
Late in 1838, Gray went to Europe and visited leading botanists in Scotland, England, France Italy, Austria, and Germany. He examined many of the dried specimens of American plants in European herbaria, gaining knowledge that helped him in continuing his studies in New York after he returned to America in 1839. |
