Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1832, Jan. 24 | Born, Salem, Mass. |
| 1852 | A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1854 | LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1855-1917 | Practiced law with the firm of Butler, Evarts and Southmayd (later Evarts, Choate, Sherman and Leon), New York, N.Y. |
| 1860 | A.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass |
| 1861 | Married Caroline Dutcher Sterling |
| 1869-1917 | Founder and trustee, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. |
| 1870-1917 | Incorporator, trustee, and at times vice president, chairman of the law committee and member of the executive committee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. |
| 1890 | Member, commission to revise the judicial system of New York |
| 1894 | President, New York Constitutional Convention |
| 1897 | Candidate for the United States Senate |
| 1899-1905 | United States ambassador to Great Britain |
| 1907 | United States ambassador and first delegate, International Peace Conference at the Hague, Netherlands |
| 1917, May 14 | Died, New York, N.Y. |