Person:Edwin Stoughton (2)

Descendants of Thomas Stoughton states Edwin graduated from Dartmouth College and became a lawyer. He left a large bequest to Dartmouth College. Edwin Wallace Stoughton STOUGHTON, Edwin Wallace (sto-ton), lawyer, born in Springfield, Vermont, 1 May, 1818; died in New York city, 7 January, 1882. He came to New York city when he was eighteen years old, and there studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1840 he became connected with important eases, including some famous patent trials, notably those of Charles Goodyear. He was engaged in the case of Ross Winans against the Erie railway company, and was counsel for the latter in the receiver cases in the United States courts in 1868. Mr. Stoughton was retained by William M. Tweed at the beginning of his legal troubles, though he took no active part in the defence; and he conducted the suit of the stockholders in the Emma mine litigation. During the administration of President Grant he published an elaborate letter in which he defended on constitutional grounds the president's use of the army in Louisiana. He was one of the party that, after the election of 1876, went to New Orleans to observe tile action of the returning board, and was a warm defender of Rutherford B. Hayes's title to the office of president, which he supported by argument as one of the counsel before tile Electoral commission. In October, 1877, he was appointed minister to Russia by President Hayes, and remained there until May, 1879, when he returned to the United States. The climate of St. Petersburg did not agree with him, and the seeds of disease that he contracted there finally caused his death. As a young man he attracted some attention by his contributions to " Hunt's Merchants' Magazine," but they were afterward discontinued He gave $15,000 to Dartmouth to found a museum of pathological anatomy, --- Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM

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