Three Tales: Christine Van Amberg, Resignation, and the Village Doctor
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Maunsell Bradhurst Field was an American lawyer, diplomat, judge, and author.
Background
Maunsell Bradhurst Field traced his descent from Robert Field, a friend of Roger Williams, who, coming from Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, c. 1630, settled at Flushing, Long Island, in 1645. His father, Moses Field of New York City, and Peekskill, New York, married May 17, 1821, Susan Kittredge Osgood, daughter of Samuel Osgood, first commissioner of the United States Treasury.
Education
Maunsell B. Field received his early education at Peekskill, and in 1837 proceeded to Yale University, graduating in 1841, with the highest honors and delivering the valedictory.
On returning to the United States in December 1845, he studied law.
Career
Considerations of health delayed his choice of occupation, and in the spring of 1843 he undertook an extensive tour throughout Europe, Asia Minor, and Egypt. On returning to the United States in December 1845, he studied law and was admitted to the New York bar in January 1848.
During that year he again visited Europe, and on his return joined John Jay in practise in New York City. The law, however, did not appeal to him, and, being financially independent, he went to Europe again in the autumn of 1854, becoming temporarily secretary of legation to John Y. Mason, the United States minister to France, and visiting Madrid on a special mission to Pierre Soulé, United States minister to Spain.
He was nominated commissioner for the State of New York to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855, and served as president of the board of United States commissioners on that occasion, but declined a permanent appointment as secretary of legation which was offered him by President Pierce.
In 1861 he accepted the position of deputy assistant-treasurer of the United States at New York City, and fulfilled the duties of his office so efficiently that Secretary Chase in September 1863 promoted him to assistant secretary of the treasury at Washington, D. C.
On June 1, 1864, the assistant treasurership of the United States at New York City became vacant, and Chase strongly recommended Field’s appointment to the office. Field, however, had no political backing in New York and President Lincoln declined to make the appointment, saying he could not afford to quarrel with either of the two factions into which the Republicans of that state were at that time split.
This ultimately led to Chase’s resignation, and Field remained assistant secretary. The exigencies of the Civil War had made his position exceedingly onerous, and his health had materially suffered, so he resigned July 1, 1865, and President Johnson appointed him collector of internal revenue for the 6th District of New York, a position which he retained till 1869.
He had much literary ability, and was a close friend of G. P. R. James, collaborating with him in writing Adrian; or, The Clouds of the Mind ( 1852).
He prepared a French edition of the Annual Report for 1854 of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, entitled Les hommes rouges de l’Amérique du Nord (1855), and in 1869 published a small volume of poems. The best known of his works is Memories of Many Men and of Some Women (1874), being his own reminiscences written in a vivacious and charming manner.
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Personality
His legal equipment was mediocre, but as a civil servant he was earnest, efficient, and tireless, and enjoyed the complete confidence of his superiors.
Connections
He married, January 7, 1846, Julia, daughter of Daniel Stanton of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.