John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn. Letterbooks, 1853-1867.

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John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn. Letterbooks, 1853-1867.

Two letterbooks of an Albany attorney, 1853-59 and 1860-67.

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Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing, 1811-1877

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Pruyn was admitted to the New York bar (1831) and practised law in Albany. He was later director of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Company (1835-1845), and a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Rockwell was a graduate of Yale University (1822) and practised law in Norwich, Connecticut. He later served in the Connecticut senate (1839) and the U.S. Congress (1845-1849). From the description of Correspondence of John V.L. Pruyn and John A. Rockwell, 1833-1834. (Harvard Law Sch...