Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1819, Oct. 20 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1852 | Married Teresa Bagioli (died 1867) |
| 1843 | Member New York assembly |
| 1846 | Admitted to the bar |
| 1853 | Became corporation counsel, New York, N.Y. |
| 1853-1855 | Secretary under James Buchanan, United States legation, London, England |
| 1856-1857 | Member, New York senate |
| 1857-1861 | Democratic representative in Congress |
| 1859 | Shot and killed Philip Barton Key, district attorney of the District of Columbia, over domestic affair |
| 1861-1867 | Served in United States Army during and after the Civil War as colonel Seventeenth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry and brigadier general and major general of volunteers; wounded and had leg amputated at Battle of Gettysburg |
| 1871 | Married Carmina Creagh |
| 1869-1874 | Minister to Spain |
| 1886-1888 | Chairman, New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga |
| 1888-1889 | Chairman, New York State Civil Service Commission |
| 1890 | Sheriff, New York, N.Y. |
| 1893-1895 | Democratic representative in Congress |
| 1914, May 3 | Died, New York., N.Y. |