Douglass Boardman
Douglass Boardman (October 31, 1822 – September 5, 1891) was an American jurist and lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of New York and as Dean of Cornell Law School. Biography Boardman, the youngest in a family of twelve children, was born in Covert, Seneca County, New York, on October 31, 1822. The first three years of his college course were spent at Hobart College, and he graduated from Yale College in 1842. On graduation he began the study of law in Ithaca, New York, and after a brief residence in Trumansburg, in the same county, he returned to Ithaca in July, 1846, and made that place his home for the rest of his life. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1845, and his first public office was the District Attorneyship of Tompkins County, which he held for two or three years from January, 1848; and for four years from January, 1852, he was County Judge and Surrogate. For ten years from January, 1856, he practiced law in partnership with the Hon. Francis M. Finch. In the fall of 1865 he was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of New York for a term of eight