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Seeking a portrait of John Lansing Wendell. Wendell, born in Albany on January 2, 1785, of Dutch ancestry, was educated in Albany and Cambridge, New York. He studied law in his brother Gerritt's law office prior to admission to the bar. While in Cambridge, he served as Judge of Washington County in 1821 and 1823. In 1828, Judge Wendell became the fourth official Reporter of New York, publishing 26 volumes of the Reports by 1841. In addition to publishing the New York Reports, he published a digest of Supreme Court cases (1836) and edited editions of Starkie's Law of Slander (1843) and Blackstone's Commentaries (1847). An active member of the community, John Wendell was one of the incorporators of the Washington Library; a founding member of the Cambridge Washington Academy, serving on the board of trustees as secretary from 1815 to 1825 and treasurer from 1815 to 1821; and secretary of the Washington Bible Society in the State of New York from its inception in Washington County in 1813. Judge Wendell died in Hartford, Connecticut, on December 19, 1861.
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