History of Saugerties, (Ulster County) New York United States of America

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James Newton Fiero, lawyer, was born at Saugerties, N.Y., May 23, 1847, son of Col. Christopher Fiero, aud grandson of Abram Fiero, M.D. He was prepared for college at Delaware academy and at Cherry Valley, N.Y., and was graduated from Union in 1867. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practised at Binghamton, then at Kingston, and from 1891 at Albany, N.Y. He became a lecturer on practice and pleading at the Albany law school in 1892, and in 1895 was elected dean of that institution. He was president of the Albany alumni association of Union college, a member of the committee on law reform of the state bar association, and in 1892 and 1893 president of the last named organization. Union conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1898. He published: Special Proceedings in the State of New York (1887); Special Actions (1888).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Irving Fisher, political economist, was born in Saugerties, N.Y., Feb. 27, 1867; son of the Rev. George Whitefield and Ella (Wescott) Fisher, and grandson of John and Almira (King) Fisher and of John and Catharine (Bozarth) Wescott. He was prepared for college at Smith academy, St. Louis, Mo., and was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1888, Ph.D., 1891. He studied in Berlin and Paris, 1893-94. He was tutor in mathematics at Yale, 1890-93; assistant professor of mathematics, 1893-95; assistant professor of political economy, 1895-98, and was elected full professor in 1898. He joined the Connecticut academy of arts and sciences in 1892; the British economic association in 1894; the American mathematical society in 1894; the American economic association in 1895, and was made an editor of the Yale Review in 1896. He was married, June 24, 1893, to Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Rowland Hazard of Rhode Island. He is the author of: Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices (1892); Yale Bibliographies (1893); Phillips and Fisher's Elements of Geometry (1896); Appreciation, and Interest (1896); Brief Introduction to Infinitesimal Calculus (1897); Bibliography of Mathematical Economies (1897); and contributions on Capital, Bimetallism, Statistics, Mathematical Economics and other subjects to Economic Journal, Yale Review, Quarterly, Journal of Economics, Bond Record, and other periodicals

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor