FTP, give the name shared by four brothers, one of whom was the father of the transatlantic cable, and went by the first name Cyrus.
One man in American history with this last name was a reverend who authored travel books like From the Lakes of Kularney to the Golden Horn, but is best remembered as the longtime editor of The Evangelist, a New York-based periodical. Another man with this last name was counsel for Jay Gould and James Fisk during the Erie Railroad cases in 1869 and defended Boss Tweed, but is more famous for creating a namesake code of civil procedure in 1848 in New York to unify legal knowledge. That man's brother was a Supreme Court justice who issued dissents in Munn v. Illinois and the Slaughterhouse Cases defending liberty of contract - he'd been appointed to the Court by Abraham Lincoln after having been Chief Justice in California. Yet another fellow by this surname was a financier who funded the artistic expeditions of Frederic Church. FTP, give the name shared by four brothers, one of whom was the father of the transatlantic cable, and went by the first name Cyrus.
One man in American history with this last name was a reverend who authored travel books like From the Lakes of Kularney to the Golden Horn, but is best remembered as the longtime editor of The Evangelist, a New York-based periodical.
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