[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He was born in Greenwich, Conn., and graduated from Yale College in 1842. He studied law in Bedford, and was, while pursuing bis studies there, the princi-pal of the old Bedford Academy for three years. His college classmates are many of them eminent men of the age. Chief Justice J. A. Peters, of Maine; Chan-cellor Runyon, of New Jersey; Judge Douglas Board-man, of New York; Rev. Dr. Hall, of Brooklyn; and Hon. Calvin Frost, of Peekskill, were among them. He entered into a law partnership with Hon. William H. Robertson, and they opened an office first in Mott Haven, removing to White Plains in 1865. Mr. Close-came to Croton Falls to reside in 1854. He married Miss Samantha B. Numan, of Glens Falls, N. Y., in 1846, and had three children — one son and two daugfa ters. One daughter only survives. His reputation for integrity and professional probity is second to none in the State. In 1868 he was elected supervisor of North Salem, which position he has filled in such an accept-able and honorable manner that he has held it succes-sively ever since and is the present incumbent. In addi-tion to these local honors, he held the office of register in bankruptcy in 1867, and for some twelve years there-after, and was appointed by Governor John T. Hoff-man, in 1873, one of the commissioners to draft