A History of Cleveland and Its Environs Volume 2; Biography (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...war, the latter as an officer. Mr. Rockwell's mother was descended from William Brewster, who was the elder and religious head of the Plymouth Colony and went with the first load of colonists in the Mayflower. Her immediate relatives were among the best families of Brooklyn and Flatbush. Major Duffield, one of her ancestors, was a surgeon in General Washington's staff. William Rockwell, Sr., was also a lawyer, a graduate of Yale College with the class of 1822. He studied law at Sharon, Connecticut, and while in practice at Brooklyn served as United States District Attorney and afterwards was a justice of the Supreme Court of New York for the Second Judicial District, which office he was holding at the time of his death. After his death his wife Susan became the wife of Rev. William P. Strickland and moved to Bridgehampton, Long Island, where Mr. Strickland was pastor of a Presbyterian church. She died in 1877. The old Prince homestead stood on Fulton Avenue near Duffield Street, the farm covering a large area in the heart of the present business section of Brooklyn. Mr. William Rockwell was graduated Ph. B. from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University with the class of 1874 and studied law in the Columbia Law School, from which he received his law degree "in 1877. He was admitted to the New York bar in that year and at once began practice. He was a member of the bar of New York City from 1877 until 1898. Mr. Rockwell became a member of the Seventy-first Regiment New York National Guard in 1891, and was twice called out for active duty, at first during the Switchmen's strike at Buffalo in 1892, and in 1895 was on duty during-the Brooklyn street car strike. At the beginning of the Spanish-American war he enlisted and saw active service at Sant...