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Stetson (FRANCIS LYNDE an American)

FRANCIS LYNDE, an American lawyer, born at Keeseville, N. Y., in 1846. He graduated from Williams College in 1867 and from the Columbia Law School in 1869. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and engaged in practice in New York as a member of the firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell, and became one of the bestknown lawyers in the United States, appearing as counsel in many important litigations. He was also well known in political life and took a leading part in many reform movements in New York.

He was a director of several railways STETSON 1919, he resigned from Government and financial institutions. He died in the War Council; in April, 1918, second