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Mitchill, Samuel Latham

clergyman, congressman, United States senator, author, was born Aug. 20, 1764, in North Hempstead, N. Y. He was a famous physician and man of letters of New York city who filled there a position very similar to that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston at a later day, the two men having many points of resemblance.

He was long a professor of chemistry in Columbia college. He was a representative in congress from 1801 to 1804; and again in 1810-13; and a United States senator in 1804-09. Among his writings are: Life of Tammany, the Indian Chief; Picture of New York; and Description of Schooley's Mountain.

MOAK, NATHANIEL CLEVELAND, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 3, 1833, in Sharon, N. Y. He was an Albany lawyer; and the author of Albany Penitentiary Statutes; English Reports; and English Digest.