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Peckham (RUFUS WILLIAM an American)

RUFUS WILLIAM, an American lawyer. He was born at Albany, N. Y., in 1838, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, serving for three years as district attorney of Albany co.

After a varied career as lawyer, he became in 1883 associate judge of the State Supreme Court, and, and, from 1886, of the Court of Appeals peals in New York, and finally, in 1895, of the United States Supreme Court. His judgments in the Addystton Pipe and other cases riveted national attention. He died in 1909.