The lives and opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jesse Hoyt, counsellor at law, formerly collector of customs for the port of New York [electronic resource] : with anecdotes or biographical sketches of Stephen Allen, George P. Barker, Jacob Barker, James Gordon Bennett, Samuel R. Betts, Isaac W. Bishop, F.P. Blair, Walter Bowne, C.C. Cambreleng, Moses L. Cantine, J.I. Coddington, W.H. Crawford, Edwin Croswell, John W. Edmonds, Azariah C. Flagg, Lorenzo Hoyt, Jeromus Johnson, Isaac Kibbe, Cornelius W. Lawrence, Isaac Q. Leake, Charles L. Livingston, Edward Livingston, William L. Marcy, Mordecai M. Noah, Thaddeus Phelps, Elijah F. Purdy, Roger Skinner, Peter W. Spicer, Samuel Swartwout, Enos T. Throop, Henry Ulshoeffer, John Van Buren, Martin Van Buren, Prosper M. Wetmore, Campbell P. White, Levi Woodbury, Silas Wright, Samuel Young, and their friends and political associates / by William L. Mackenzie.