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sity of New York. He was counsel for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a member of the Peace Congress at Washington, D. C., in 1861, and Governor Olden appointed him attorney-general of New Jersey, which position he held under Governor Marcus L. Ward, who, in December, 1866, appointed him United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of William Wright, of Newark, who had died, a sketch of whom was printed in the EVENING STAR of Monday last. In 1870 President Grant tendered to Mr. Frelinghuysen the appointment as American minister to England, which honor was deelined, and in 1875 he was elected to the United States Senate for a full term of six years. In December, 1881, after the death of Prosident Garfield, lie became secretary of state under President Arthur. It required the most delicate tact to fill the position acceptably at that time because of conditions in the Republican party when Garfield died, but Mr. Frelinghuysen held the responsible position with credit to himself, his native State, the administration and the nation. He died at his home in Newark, and after the funeral Chester A. Arthur said to the writer: "If my gifted friend had lived I believe he would have been elected President of the United States, and he would be a credit to the Republican party and our great country." In 1862 Princeton College conferred upon Mr. Frelinghuysen the degree of LL. D., and he was a trustee of Rutger's College, his alma mater, for thirty-three years. He was the foremost member of the New Jersey bar when it had in it some of the ablest lawyers in this country. As an orator he had few equals. In 1894 a bronze statue was erected in Military Park in memory of him. He left three sons, Frederick, George and Theodore, and three daughters, Mrs. Winthrop Gray, of New York; Mrs. Charles McCauley, wife of Colonel McCauley, of the regular army, and Miss Frelinghuysen, both of Washington, D. C. Frederick Frelinghuysen is president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Newark, was president of the old Howard Savings Institution, and as receiver for the Mechanics National Bank, which was wrecked in the early eighties, settled the finances of that concern satisfactorily. He married a daughter of the late Mr. an d Mrs. Thomas T. Kinney and has four clever young boys. George Frelinghuysen is president of P. Ballantine & Sons, and Theodore Frelinghuysen is treasurer of the J. & P. Coates Thread Company, of Massachusetts.