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William Rumsey was born at Bath, New York, a son of David and Jane (Brown) Rumsey.
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William Rumsey was born at Bath, New York, a son of David and Jane (Brown) Rumsey.
He attended schools in Steuben County, N. Y. , and then entered Williams College in the class of 1861. He was awarded his degree.
In April of his senior year Rumsey left college to become a first lieutenant on the staff of his uncle, Gen. Robert B. Van Valkenburgh of the New York militia. In October he was appointed adjutant of the 16t New York Light Artillery. Promoted to captain and then major, he served on the staff of Gen. William W. Averell. He was twice wounded, at Fair Oaks and at Moorfield, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Mar. 13, 1865, for gallantry in action. He wished to remain in the army after the war, but his father persuaded him instead to travel in the Orient and recuperate from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism which had resulted from wounds and exposure.
While abroad he was for a time secretary to General Van Valkenburgh, who was then the American minister to Japan. Early in 1868 he returned to America and began studying law in his father's office. Before the close of the year he was admitted to the bar. Favorable reputation came rapidly. When his father became a justice of the state supreme court, in 1873, William succeeded to his extensive practice; and in 1880, when his father retired from the bench, he was elected to the vacant justiceship, which he held continuously for twenty-one years. He was nominated by the Republicans for judge of the court of appeals in 1888, and was narrowly defeated.
After 1895 he sat on the appellate division of the supreme court (first and fourth departments) until 1901, when he resigned to engage in private practice in New York City. Besides his duties on the bench, he aided in formulating the code of civil procedure and the proposed code of evidence, from which experience grew his three-volume work, The Practice in Actions and Special Proceedings in the Courts of Record in the State of New York (1887 - 90). It immediately became the recognized standard on the subject. A second edition under the title, The Practice in Civil Actions in the Courts of Record in the State of New York under the Code of Civil Procedure, appeared in 1902-04. It was rendered valueless, however, by the civil practice act of 1920 which repealed the code on which the work was based.
Rumsey was deeply read in legal history. He possessed a phenomenal memory which enabled him to recall accurately the minute details of the development of legal principles. With such an equipment he was able to do his work without drudgery and in an amazingly short time. In general he was conservative; but he did not hesitate to develop--as in the case of Roberson vs. Folding Box Company (64 App. Div. , 30), which sustained a new common-law "right of privacy"--significant extensions of the law, which followed logically from principles already established.
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On February 1, 1877, Rumsey married Ella Moore of Brooklyn, N. Y. They had two daughters and a son.