''For the Catholic priest and writer, see

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'' 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

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was among Lord's clients.

Early life

Lord was born in

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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. He graduated from

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in 1814.

Career

Lord was a legal contemporary of Chief Justices

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and

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, Chancellors

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and

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, and Spencer, Wood,

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, 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.

was among Lord's clients. The firm operated until October 1994. In 1851 he delivered Yale University Phi Beta Kappa address.Daniel Lord, Phi Beta Kappa Address (1851).

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: * Daniel DeForest Lord (1819–1894), who married Mary Howard Butler (1823–1880), a daughter of

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, in 1844. After Mary's death, he married Elizabeth Riley. * John Crary Lord (1821–1873), who married Margaret Hawley (1825–1909), a daughter of Gideon Hawley, in 1846. * Phoebe Lucretia Lord (1823–1890), who married Henry Day in 1849. * James Couper Lord (1827–1869), who married Margaretta Hunter Brown (1829–1898), a daughter of banker James Brown of Brown Bros. & Co., in 1852. * Sarah Lord (b. 1829), who married Henry C. Howells in 1887. * Edward Crary Lord (1831–1892), who married Emily Maria

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(1842–1892), a daughter of Gerard William Livingston (grandson of Robert Livingston, 3rd Lord of

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), in 1864. * George DeForest Lord (1833–1892), a lawyer who married Frances Theodora Shelton, in 1877. Lord died at his home in New York on March 4, 1886. His death in 1868 was attributed to "paralysis". After a funeral held at Rev. Dr. Spring's Church at 35th Street and

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, he was buried at the

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on Second Avenue in New York.

References

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