FIELD
FIELD
to Submit, daughter of Capt. Noah Dickinson,
an officer under Putnam in the French and In-
dian war and also in the war of the Revolution.
He was ordained April 11, 1804, as pastor of the
Congregational church at Haddam, Conn., and
served that congregation for fourteen years. He
resigned his charge in 1818 and made a missionary
tovir tlirough the wilderness of western New
York, under direction of the Missionary society
of Connecticut. He was installed pastor of the
church at Stockbridge, Mass., in August, 1819, as
successor to Dr.Stephen West, and remained there
eighteen years. He returned to Haddam in 1836
and was pastor of his old congregation until 1844,
when they divided and he took charge of a new
church formed at Higganum, and in 18.")1 retired
from the ministr}-. He passed his declining
years at Stockbridge, Mass. He served for a time
as vice-president of the Connecticut historical
society, and was also a corresponding member of
the Massachusetts anl Pennsj'lvania historical
societies. He visited Europe in 1848 with his son
Stephen. Williams college conferred on him the
honorary degree of D.D. in 1837. Of his seven
sons, six lived to maturity and gained national
fame — David Dudley, lawyer; Jonathan Edwards,
legislator; Stephen Johnson, jurist; Cyrus West,
merchant; Matthew, civil engineer, and Henry
Martyn, author. He published: History oj the
County of Bprkshire (1839); History of the County
of Middli'sf'x (1839); History of Pittsflehl (1844);
and (h-m-dloyy of the Brainard Family (1857); be-
sides numerous sermons and addresses. He died
in Stockbridge, Mass.. April 1.5, 1867.
FIELD, David Dudley, lawyer, was born in Haddam, Conn., Feb. 13, 1805; son of the Rev. David Dudley and Submit (Dickinson) Field, and giandson ol ( 'apt Timothy Field and of Capt. Noah Dickmson, officers m the American army dur- ing the Revolution. He was graduated at Williams in 1825 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1828. His labors in the di- rection of law reform largelj' influenced li'U'islation in his
- i'li'pted state and
, .sliaped constitutional amendments. He
was a member of the commission on prac- tice and procedure in
- ^<;^^jj<- 1847 that formed the
y code of jirocedure
introduced in February, 1848, and enacted into law their first report in April, 1848, and the entire code of civil and criminal procedure in
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four instalments completed January, 1850. Most
of the .states of the union followed New York in
adopting this system, and England and the Eng-
lish colonies, including India, made it the basis
of new judicature acts. Field's criminal pro-
cedure was also adopted by the legislatures of at
least half the states. In 1857 he was appointed
by the state of New York the head of a commis-
sion to prepare a political code, a penal code and
a civil code designed to supersede the unwritten
or "common" law. The work of the commis-
sion was completed in 1865, and covered the en-
tire province of American law. The penal code
was adopted by the state, and other states drew
largely from the civil code, California and Dakota
adopting the entire scheme. In 1866 at a meet-
ing of the British association for the promotion
of social science he introduced a scheme for the
revision of the general law of nations. In 1872
he presented to the social science congress the
result of seven years" labor devoted to the formu-
lation of his " Draft Outlines of an International
Code, which attracted the attention of jurists
and was translated into French, Italian and Clii-
nese. This plan, which included the settlement
of disputes between nations by arbitration rather
than war, resulted in the formation in 1873 at
Ghent of an institute of international law, an
association formed to promote the principles of
arbitration and to reform and codify existing
laws, and Mr. Field was made its first president.
He was originally a Democrat, but when the
question of the perpetuation of slavery became
uppermost as a political issue he supported the
Republican party in 1856, 1860 and 1864. In the
electoral dispute of 1876 he again took part with
the Democrats and was a representative in the
44th congress to fill a vacancy caused by the elec-
tion of Representative Smith Ely as mayor of
New York city. In 1890 he presided at the great
peace convention in London. He published:
Letters on the Meform of the Judiciary System ( 1839);
Tlie Reorganization of the Judiciary (1846); What
Shall be Done with the Practice of the Courts?
Shall it he Wholly Beformedf Questions Addressed
to Lawyers (1847); The Electoral Votes of 1876:
Who should count them, vihat should be counted and
the remedy for a wrong count (1877); Suggestions
Sespecting the Revision of the Constitution of New
Tork (1867); Draft Outlines of an International
Code (1872, 2ded., 1876); Speeches and Arguments
before the Supreme Cotirt of the United States, and
Miscellaneous Papers (3 vols., 1884): and American
Progress in Jurisprudence, prepared for the Colum-
bian Exposition in Chicago (1893). He died in
New York city. April 18, 1894.
FIELD, Edwin Stanton, musician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 6, 1869; son of Charles Jacob and Claire Sarab Jaoe (West) Field. He
