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JAMES KENT
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Columbia University Sources: COLUMBIANA - From the file marked "James Kent": James Kent, "An Introductory Lecture to a Course of Law Lectures: Delivered November 17, 1794" (New York: Francis Childs, 1794); A copy of Kent's 1797 resignation letter; "Kent Hall is Well Underway," Columbia Alumni News (Nov. 8, 1909); An invitation to the opening of Kent Hall; Harlan F. Stone, "James Kent, Judge and Chancellor," Columbia Alumni News (Apr. 27, 1923); Program from Kent Centennial Celebration; Cover of Columbia Alumni News (Jan. 23, 1925); "Memorial Honors Kent, Law Pioneer," The New York Times (Oct. 16, 1938); Press release for 200th anniversary celebration of Kent's birth from John Hastings, Columbia University New Director (Aug. 8, 1963); "Columbia Honors Famed Jurist," Bergen Record (Aug. 12, 1963); "Ceremony in Honor of James Kent," The Putnam Courier (July 27, 1988).

Other Sources: "James Kent," American National Biography, 12:596-599 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); "James Kent," Dictionary of American Biography, 5:344-347 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); Julius Goebel, Jr., The History of the School of Law Columbia University (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955); John Theodore Horton, James Kent: A Study in Conservatism, 1763-1847 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969); Alfred Billings Street, The Council of Revision of the State of New York (Albany: William Gould, 1859)


Also of interest: Manuscript Collections, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds 398 items from Kent including correspondence with nineteenth century figures prominent in the legal and political fields and documents such as wills, deeds, invitations, certificates, and a box of Kent's legal opinions.

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