A law license 176 years late for Ely Parker
Kathleen Sweet, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued a public statement on Friday on the…
The lawyer who literally wrote the legal terms for the end of the Civil War is finally a member of the New York State Bar, 130 years after his death
Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet,…
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial
On an October morning in 1825, Gov. DeWitt Clinton of New York stood at the head of a…