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Pierrepont, Edwards

lawyer, jurist, was born March 4, 1817, in North Haven, Conn. He was judge of the New York supreme court from 1857 to 1860; and in 1862 was made a member of the military commission for the trial of prisoners of state. He was United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1869-70. He was appointed attorneygeneral of the United States in 1875. In 1876 envoy extraordinary he was appointed and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. He died March 6, 1892, in New York city.

PIERREPONT, EDWARD WILLOUGH- BY, public official, author, was born in 1860 in New York. He was charge d'affaires at Rome at the time of his death. He was the author of From Fifth Avenue to Alaska. He died in 1885.