Daniel Lord Explained

For the Catholic priest and writer, see Daniel A. Lord

Daniel Lord (September 23, 1795 – March 4, 1868) was a prominent New York City attorney. His firm was eventually joined by his son-in-law Henry Day and son Daniel Lord Jr. to form Lord Day & Lord. John Jacob Astor was among Lord's clients.

Early life

Lord was born in Stonington, Connecticut September 23, 1795. He was a son of Phebe (Crary) Lord (1773–1847) and Dr. Daniel Lord (1767–1845). His father, a doctor, moved the family to New York City while Lord was a toddler.^[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1814.^[2]

Career

Lord was a legal contemporary of Chief Justices Thomas J. Oakley and William Alexander Duer, Chancellors Reuben H. Walworth and James Kent, and Spencer, Wood, Ogden Hoffman, Stevens, Hill, and Bradford.

In 1818, Lord opened his firm as a solo practitioner. By 1848, he was joined by his son-in-law, Henry Day, and son, Daniel Lord Jr., to form Lord, Day & Lord. John Jacob Astor was among Lord's clients.^[3] The firm operated until October 1994.^[4]

In 1851 he delivered Yale University on Phi Beta Kappa address.^[5]

Personal life

On May 16, 1818, Lord was married to Susan DeForest (1799–1879), a daughter of Lockwood DeForest and Mehitabel (Wheeler) DeForest. Together, they were the parents of:^[6]

• Daniel DeForest Lord (1819–1894), who married Mary Howard Butler (1823–1880), a daughter of Attorney General Benjamin Franklin Butler, in 1844. After Mary's death, he married Elizabeth Riley.^[6]
• John Crary Lord (1821–1873), who married Margaret Hawley (1825–1909), a daughter of Gideon Hawley, in 1846.^[6]
• Phoebe Lucretia Lord (1823–1890), who married Henry Day in 1849.^[6]
• James Couper Lord (1827–1869), who married Margaretta Hunter Brown (1829–1898), a daughter of banker James Brown of Brown Bros. & Co., in 1852.^[6]
• Sarah Lord (b. 1829), who married Henry C. Howells in 1887.^[6]
• Edward Crary Lord (1831–1892), who married Emily Maria Livingston (1842–1892), a daughter of Gerard William Livingston (grandson of Robert Livingston, 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor),^[7] in 1864.^[6]
• George DeForest Lord (1833–1892), a lawyer who married Frances Theodora Shelton, in 1877.^[2]

Lord died at his home in New York on March 4, 1886.^[8] His death in 1868 was attributed to "paralysis".^[1] After a funeral held at Rev. Dr. Spring's Church at 35th Street and Fifth Avenue, he was buried at the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue in New York.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Book: Memorial of Daniel Lord. 1869. D. Appleton. All.
2. Book: of 1854 . Yale University Class . Record and Statistics . 1896 . 95 . 5 May 2022 . en.
3. Book: George Whitney Martin. Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1870-1970. 1970. Fordham Univ Press. 978-0-8232-1735-9. 24–.
4. News: Hoffman . Jan . Oldest Law Firm Is Courtly, Loyal and Defunct . 5 May 2022 . . 2 October 1994.
5. Daniel Lord, On the Extra-Professional Influence of Pulpit and Bar: An Oration ... July 30, 1851 (1851).
6. Book: DeForest . Emily Johnston . A Walloon Family in America: Lockwood de Forest and His Forbears 1500-1848 . 1914 . Houghton Mifflin . 308 . 978-0-608-32165-3 . 5 May 2022 . en.
7. Book: Mott . Hopper Striker . The New York of Yesterday: A Descriptive Narrative of Old Bloomingdale, Its Topographical Features, Its Early Families and Their Genealogies, Its Old Homesteads and Country-seats, Its French Invasion, and Its War Experiences Considered in Their Relation to Its First Religious Society, the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, Organized in 1805. Incorporated in 1806 as the Church at Harsenville . 1908 . Putnam's . 384 . 5 May 2022 . en.
8. News: LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; Adjournment of all the Courts--Remarks of Messrs. Evarts, Stoughton, Benedict, Van Cott, and Judges Barnard, Blatchford, slosson, Brady and Others. DEATH OF DANIEL LORD. . 5 May 2022 . . 6 March 1868.
9. News: Obsequies of the Late Daniel Lord. . 5 May 2022 . . 8 March 1868.