[35] Mr. Gillett was a neighbor, a friend, and the authorized biographer of Silas Wright. His letter is only interesting as another illustration of the diversities of opinion among the spectators, about the first thing to do when the neighbor's house is on fire.
The letter of Mr. Tilden to Judge William Kent first appeared in the Evening Post in 1860, and was republished in the New York World in 1863.
[36] Mr. Taylor was appointed Harbor Master of New York, in Jan'y, 1873, by Governor Hoffman.
[37] Mr. Hogeboom was a lawyer in Hudson, Columbia County, of which county Mr. Tilden also was a native.
[38] A lawyer from Watertown, Mass., who settled in New York city, and was the author of Several Studies of the Federal Constitution, of The Last Years of Daniel Webster, and The Law of Copyright. In the Civil War his sympathies were with the insurgent States. He died in 1894.
[39] Martin Van Buren had died in July, 1862.
[40] Mr. Eames took the first honors of his class at Harvard University; studied law in New York; married the eldest daughter of Judge Campbell, then Surrogate of New York city. On the election of Polk he took up his residence in Washington, and during the Civil War was much employed by the government in the Supreme Court, as counsel of the Navy Department, in resisting illegal claims.
[41] The difference in the amounts received by General Grant and the amounts subscribed was doubtless cash from the donors whose names were withheld.