HISTOUY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



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HON. JOSEPH G. HASTEN. 



Hon. Joseph G. Masten was a son-in-law of Dugald 

 Cameron, and a lawyer who attained to considerable dis- 

 tinction. He came to Bath about 1832, was admitted to 

 the Common Pleas, and practiced in partnership with Henry 

 W. Rogers. About 1836 he and Rogers removed to Buffalo, 

 where he afterwards became mayor of that city and justice 

 of the Superior Court. He was also a member of the Con- 

 stitutional Convention of 1867. He died in Buffalo about 

 1872. 



HENRY W. ROGERS, ESQ., 



came to Bath from Sidney Plains, N. Y., about 1827. He 

 taught school, read law with Hon. Henry Welles, and be- 

 came a partner with Hon. David McMaster, with whom he 

 practiced for some considerable time. He then formed a 

 partnership with Mr. Masten, and both practiced together 

 till they removed to Buffalo. Mr. Rogers now resides at 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. During his residence in Buffalo he 

 was collector of that port, and was also prosecuting attor- 

 ney, acting in the famous Rathbun case. 



VINCENT M. CORYELL. 



Vincent M. Coryell was admitted to the practice of law 

 in Bath in 1822, and was for a short time a partner of 

 Judge Welles. He subsequently became a Methodist cler- 

 gyman. Mr. Coryell was a son-in-law of Dugald Cameron. 



SCHUYLER S. STRONG, ESQ. 



Schuyler S. Strong, Esq., came to Steuben from Orange 

 Co., N. Y. In December, 1822, he formed a partnership 

 with Hon. William Woods, and in 1824 became associated 

 in practice with Hon. Edward Howell. He took a leading 

 part in the trial of Robert Douglas for murder at Bath in 

 1825. Some years later he removed to Springfield, 111., 

 where he died in 1843. He was a son-in-law of Gen. 

 Daniel Cruger, and Mrs. Strong is still living at Bath. 



Anson Gibbs, Esq., was also a practicing attorney at 

 Bath in 1820 and 1821. He removed to EUicottville, 

 where he was prominent as an attorney. 



John Cook, Esq., was also an attorney at Bath for 

 many years, and died there. He followed Daniel Cruger 

 as district attorney, being appointed Feb. 19, 1821. 



HON. S. H. HAMMOND. 



Hon. Samuel H. Hammond, who, for a time, was partner 

 with Mr. Campbell, was a man of very different mould and 

 temperament. Though gifted with rare powers he disliked 

 the routine and drudgery of a law-office, and books of 

 reference were his abhorrence. The scenes of nature, the 

 wild solitudes of mountain and glen, the sports of hunting 

 and fishing, were, on the contrary, his delight, and he often 

 found them so tempting a pastime as to seriously interfere 

 with anything like systematic attention to professional duties. 

 He was at times, and, it may be said, generally, eloquent as 

 an advocate, and was a graphic and rhetorical writer. He 

 was from temperament and habit better adapted to journal- 

 ism than to the law, and in the former sphere he is best 

 known and will, be longest remembered. He wrote many 

 beautiful and tender things both in prose and poetry, which 

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those who knew him best love to cherish as mementos of 



his genius. 



Mr. Hammond was a son of Lazarus Hammond, the 

 founder of Hammondsport. He was educated at Franklin 

 Academy, Prattsburgh. He began the study of law with 

 Gen. S. S. Haight, at Angelica, and finished in the office 

 of Cruger & Howell, at Bath. He was admitted in 1831. 

 After practicing for a time at Baldwinsville, N. Y., he re- 

 turned to Bath, and, in 1836, formed a partnership with 

 Hon. Robert Campbell, which lasted till 1842. The year 

 following he opened practice in Albany, and was there 

 elected district attorney. In 1853 he commenced editing 

 the Albany Reguter^ and closed his connection with that 

 paper in 185G. He afterwards practiced law in company 

 with Hon. William Irvine, of Corning, and in November, 

 1857, became a partner of A. P. Ferris, Esq., at Bath. In 

 1859 he was elected to the Senate from this senatorial dis- 

 trict. In 1864 he removed to Watertown, N. Y., where 

 he died in November, 1878. 



[For biographical sketches of Hon. George B. Bradley, 

 C. H. Thomson, Esq., E. D. Mills, and others, see History 

 of Corning.] 



HON. WASHINGTON BARNES. 



Hon. Washington Barnes was county judge of Steuben 

 County from 1860 to 1864. He settled quite early at 

 Painted Post; studied law with Thomas A. Johnson, of 

 Corning, and was admitted to practice in 1836. He after- 

 wards practiced law five years in company with Ansel J. 

 McCall, Esq., of Bath. He was a very earnest and conscien- 

 tious man in all his deaUngs, strictly honest and entirely free 

 from all the tricks and subterfuges by which professional 

 men and politicians of a different stamp too often seek 

 emolument and influence. He died in Bath in 1868. 



HON. G. H. M^^MASTER. 



Guy Humphries McMaster was born in 1829 ; prepared 

 for college at Franklin Academy, Prattsburgh, and in the 

 select schools of Bath ; graduated at Hamilton College, New 

 York, in the class of 1847; was admitted to the bar in 

 1852; elected county judge in 1863; re-elected in 1867, 

 and again in 1877. He wrote the " History of the Settle- 

 ment of Steuben County" in 1850, while a student-at-law. 



ANSEL J. McCALL, ESQ. 



Ansel J. McCall, Esq., has been a member of the Steu- 

 ben bar and in continuous practice at Bath since 1842. 

 He was born in the town of Painted Post (now Corning) 

 Jan. 14, 1816. After a preparatory course at Franklin 

 Academy, Prattsburgh, he entered Union College, and was 

 graduated in the class of 1838. He commenced the study 

 of law in company with Hon. David McMaster, at Bath, and 

 completed his clerkship in the office of Hammond & Camp- 

 bell, being admitted, and entering into partnership with 

 Washington Barnes, Esq., in 1842, with whom he con- 

 tinued to practice for a period of five years. He subse- 

 quently practiced several years in company with A. P. 

 Ferris, Esq. In 1843 he was appointed by Governor 

 Bouck surrogate of Steuben County, and held the office 

 till the new constitution came in force, Jan. 1, 1847. 

 Mr. McCall is a yeteran lawyer, and is not only well in- 



