Maunsell Bradhurst Field

March 26, 1822 (age 52)

New York, United States

Samuel Osgood, first Commissioner of the United States Treasury. After his graduation he began the study of law in New Haven and New New York John Jay. His health having failed, he visited Europe again in the spring of 1848, and a third time in the autumn of 1854, when he was solicited to fill the position of Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris, which he accepted. He was also subsequently for a short time attached to the United States. Mission in Spain. In 1855, Government. Horatio Seymour having appointed him a Commissioner for the State of New York, he was made President of the Board of United States Commissioners to the French Universal Exposition. And at the Exposition"s close was designated by the late Emperor Napoleon III with the cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor, for his eminent services. In August, 1861, he was appointed Deputy Sub-Treasurer of the United States in New York City. In October, 1863, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, which office he resigned June 15, 1865, on the failure of his health. He was then appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the 6th district of New York, which position he held until 1860, when he resumed the practice of the law. In December, 1873, Government. John Adams Dix appointed him to fill a vacancy in the judgeship of the 2nd District Court in New York City. He retained this office until January, 1, preceding his death. In 1851, he wrote, with General Рractitioner R. James, a romance called Adrian, which was published. In 1869 he published a small volume of poems, Trifles in Verse, and in 1873 a volume entitled Memories of Many Men and Some Women, which was very favorably received. He was also a frequent contributor to various magazines. Judge Field manifested his interest in Yale by serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Woolsey Fund, from its organization in 1871 until his death. By this marriage he had four sons, including author Julian Osgood Field. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

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Field was born in New York, March 26, 1822, and died in the same city, after a lingering illness, January 24, 1875. He was the eldest son of Moses Field and Susan Kittridge, daughter of Honorary

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Field graduated from Yale College in 1841.

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Samuel Osgood, first Commissioner of the United States Treasury. After his graduation he began the study of law in New Haven and New New York John Jay. His health having failed, he visited Europe again in the spring of 1848, and a third time in the autumn of 1854, when he was solicited to fill the position of Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris, which he accepted.

He was also subsequently for a short time attached to the United States. Mission in Spain.

In 1855, Government. Horatio Seymour having appointed him a Commissioner for the State of New York, he was made President of the Board of United States Commissioners to the French Universal Exposition. And at the Exposition"s close was designated by the late Emperor Napoleon III with the cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor, for his eminent services.

In August, 1861, he was appointed Deputy Sub-Treasurer of the United States in New York City. In October, 1863, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, which office he resigned June 15, 1865, on the failure of his health.

He was then appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the 6th district of New York, which position he held until 1860, when he resumed the practice of the law.

In December, 1873, Government. John Adams Dix appointed him to fill a vacancy in the judgeship of the 2nd District Court in New York City. He retained this office until January, 1, preceding his death.

In 1851, he wrote, with General Рractitioner R. James, a romance called Adrian, which was published.

In 1869 he published a small volume of poems, Trifles in Verse, and in 1873 a volume entitled Memories of Many Men and Some Women, which was very favorably received. He was also a frequent contributor to various magazines. Judge Field manifested his interest in Yale by serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Woolsey Fund, from its organization in 1871 until his death.

By this marriage he had four sons, including author Julian Osgood Field.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

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