1811.
SELAH BREWSTER STRONG, eldest child of Judge Thomas S.
and Hannah (Brewster) Strong, was born in Brookhaven (L. I.),
N. Y., May 1st, 1792, and died at his country-seat, in Setauket,
L. I., Nov. 29th, 1872.
He studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar
in November, 1814. He subsequently removed his office to his
father's house, and in 1821 was appointed District Attorney of
Suffolk County, and held the position (with the exception of one
interval of nine months) for twenty years. In 1842 he was elected
to Congress, and served for one term. In 1847 he was elected,
under the new constitution, Judge of the Supreme Court of the
State of N. Y. for the Second District, drawing the short term of
two years. Two years later he was re-elected, and served for the
full term, until Jan., 1860. He was also a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1867.
Judge Strong married, Aug. 14th> 1823, Cornelia, daughter of
Dr. Richard TJdall, of Islip, L. L, who survives. They had six
sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest son graduated at this
college in 1855, and the next two surviving sons in 1864.
