DALY
DALY
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was Thp. Great Jiuby, a melodr-inia. first produced
iu America at Daly's Theatre, New York cit\,
in lyyS-itU. He wrote Life of Ten W(>£i)i<jtim
(1888). He died in Paris, France, June 7, 1891).
DALY, Charles Patrick, jurist, was born in
New York city, Oct. '•)[. 181G: the son of a master
carpenter who emip^rated from Omagh in the
county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1814 and settled in
New York city. He was educated in a parish
school and upon the death of his father lie went
to Savannah, Ga.,
where he served
as a clerk. Be-
coming discon-
tented by reason of
ill treatment he
sliipped before the
mast and followed
the sea for three
years. Upon re-
turning to New
York he was ap-
prenticed to a quill
manufacturer, and
wliile serving his
time devoted his
evenings to study.
His connection
with a debating so-
ciety led him to form the acquaintance of William
Soule, a well-known lawyer, who induced him to
take up the study of law, offering him a clerkship
in his office and a salary of $100 the fir.st year.
Within three years he passed a successful exami-
nation and the seven-year rule being susjiended
by the court, he was admitted to practice in 1839.
He formed a partnersluii with Thomas L.
McElrath, afterward a partner with Horace
Greeley in the founding of the New York Tribune.
In 1843 he was elected to the state assembly and
declined a nomination as representative in the
29th congress in 1844. The same year he was ap-
lX)inted judge of the court of common pleas, and
was successively reapixiinted as his own suc-
cessor until 1840 when the position was made
elective and the voters continued him on the
bench. In 1857 he was elected first judge and in
1871, when the term was lengthened to fourteen
years, all parties placed his name on their
respective tickets and he was unanimously
elected, being obliged to retire in 1885 under the
law of age limit. He served as chief justice of
the court during the last twenty-eight years of
his service. The bench and bar of New York
made the occasion of his retirement a public ova-
tion and presented him with approjiriate resolu-
tions and the gavel he had so long wielded
encaserl in gold and duly inscribed. Upon retir-
ing from the bencli he establislied liimself in
chambers and had a large and lucrative practice.
He was a friend and aavisor of the administra-
tion during the civil war and was consulted on
impurtaut legal state matters, including the ren-
dition of Mason and Slidell, the Confederate com-
missioners. He was lecturer on law in Columbia
college, 18(30-75, president of the American geo-
graphical society from 1866, an honorary member
of the Royal geographical society ol London, Eng-
land, of the Berlin geographical society and of
tiie Imperial geograpliical society of Russia, and
did much to promote exploration and polar re-
search. He was also a member of the New York
.state constitutional convention of 1867; of the
New York historical society; of the Philosophical
society of Pennsylvania; of the Century a.s80cia-
tion, and of St. Patrick's society, of which he was
president for many years. In 1895 he was chosen
to respond on behalf of the delegates to the ad-
dress of welcome to them by the president, the
Duke of York, at the opening of the World's
geograpliical congress at London, England. In
1860 Columbia college conferred on him the
honorary degree of LL. D. He published: Histor-
ical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York
from 1623 to 1S46 (1855); Histoi-y of Naturaliza-
tion and of Its Laics in Different Countries (ISQO);
Are Southern Privateersmen Pirates? (1862); Origi-
nal History of Listitutions for the Promotion of Uf<e.-
ful Arts by Industrial Exhibitions (1864); When vcas
the Drama Introduced in America (1864); Reports
of Cases in the Court of Common Pleas, City and
County of New York (13 vols., 1868-87); First Set-
tlement of the Jews in North America (1875, revised
1893); What We Knoto of Maps and Map making l>i-
fore the time of Mercator (1879); The Histot-y of
Physical (Geography; and The Common Lair; Its
Origin, Sources, Nature and Development, and What
the Statu has done to Improve Upon It (1894). He
died at Sag Harbor, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1899.
DALY, Joseph Francis, jurist, was born in Plymouth, N.C., Dec. 3, 1840; son of Denis and Elizabeth Therese (Dulfey) Daly, and grandson of Michael Daly of Limerick and of Lieut. John Duffey of Carlow. His fatiier was at first jjurser's clerk in the Britisli navy and afterward captain in the merchant service. He built and siiiled his own ve.ssels. and in 1836 became a dealer in lum- ber and a shipping merchant in Plymouth, N.C. He died in 1841 and subsequently his widow, with her two sons, Augustin, aged eleven, and Joseph Francis, aged nine, removed to New York city, where better educational advantages might be afforded the sons. Jo.seph, after his public school training, was admitted as a law .student to the office of S. W. and R. B. Roo.sevelt in 1855 and gained his diploma as attorney and counsellor-at- law in 186'2. On the retirement of the Messrs. Roosevelt in 1865 lie succeeded to the business.
