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William Curtis Noyes was born on August 19, 1805 in Schodack, New York, United States. He was the son of George and Martha (Curtis) Noyes and a descendant of James Noyes who came to New England in 1633.
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William Curtis Noyes was born on August 19, 1805 in Schodack, New York, United States. He was the son of George and Martha (Curtis) Noyes and a descendant of James Noyes who came to New England in 1633.
Noyes received a common-school and academy education, and at the age of fourteen years entered as a student the law office of Welcome Esleeck of Albany. Lacking a college education, he possessed the capacity to educate himself. He completed his studies in the office of Storrs & White of Whitesboro, was admitted to the bar as attorney in 1827 and as counselor in 1830.
Noyes practised law successively in Rome and Utica and became district attorney of Oneida County before his thirtieth year. In 1838 he removed to New York and rapidly advanced to the front ranks as an advocate.
Noyes gradually built up a remarkable library, valued at $60, 000, consisting of about five thousand law books and two thousand general works, all of which he bequeathed to Hamilton College on his death. He possessed a taste for miscellaneous reading and was a profound student of the law. His success as an advocate was enhanced by his exhaustive researches into the law and facts of his cases. He reduced his briefs to writing, memorized his speeches, and delivered them as though unpremeditated. In the "Huntington case" his masterly analysis of moral insanity secured the conviction of Huntington, a Wall Street broker on trial for forgery, who had set up a plea of insanity. Another notable suit was the Rose Will case, in which Noyes ably presented the history and doctrine of charitable uses.
He was defeated for the office of state's attorney general in 1857, though running ahead of the party ticket. He was a delegate to the Peace Conference in Washington (1861), where he labored to harmonize conflicting views between the sections. His unionist convictions are summed up in the title of an address, which he delivered in 1862 to support the Emancipation Proclamation: One Country! One Constitution! One Destiny! In 1857, with Alexander W. Bradford and David Dudley Field he was appointed to codify the state laws, and in this work engaged chiefly in the revision of the penal code, which he completed just before his death. Though the code was rejected in New York, it was adopted at a later date by several western states.
He was on the executive committee of the American Temperance Union, and was chosen president of the New England Society three days before he died.
Noyes's greatest triumph occurred in the suit of the Mechanics' Bank vs. New York & New Haven R. R. Co. In this trial in the New York court of appeals Noyes defended the stockholders of the railroad against the claim that they should be deprived of their holdings without compensation, because the transfer agent of the railroad had issued fraudulent stock to a third party.
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Noyes was a consistent Christian. For years he supported a home missionary without hinting of it to others.
Although Noyes was sincerely interested in public affairs and politics, he was never a politician in the ordinary sense. Originally a Whig, he became a Republican upon the dissolution of the former party (1856).
As a stanch Republican, he publicly attacked the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Fugitive Slave Law.
Noyes was twice married, first to Anne Tracy, who bore him three children, and second to Julia A. Tallmadge, to whom two children were born. He was survived by one daughter of each marriage.
