Herring, Elbert
lawyer, jurist, was born July 8, 1777, in Stratford, Conn.
He was judge of the marine court of New York city from its establishment in 1805 till 1808, and a few years later was reappointed. He was the first register of the state of New York in 1812, an office which he held for five years. In 1832 he was appointed the first commissioner of Indian affairs. He died Feb. 20, 1876, in New York city.
HERRINGSHAW, THOMAS WILLIAM, journalist, publisher, genealogist, author, was born Jan. 27, 1858, on the eastern coast of Lincolnshire, England. He received his education in the national schools, at the Chicago athenæum, and the Chicago Union College of Law; and during 1875-79 he followed his trade of printer in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. In 1879 he founded the Farm, Field and Fireside, of which he was editor and sole proprietor; and when the Farm, Field and Fireside Publishing company was incorporated in 1880 he was made president. Having disposed of his interests in the above publication, he established a printing office in Chicago; and in 1884 founded the American Publishers' Association, of which he has always been president. In 1880 he married Mary Linna Jones of Lake county, Ill., and they have a family of three sons. He is the author of Home Occupations; Prominent Men and Women of the Day; Aids to Literary Success; and Mulierology; and he has edited and compiled a score of works, the most notable of which are Poets of America; Poetical Quotations; The Spalding Memorial; and Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography.