OF

JAMES IREDELL,

ONE OF THE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY

GRIFFITH J. McREE.

"Hereditary honor is accounted the most worthy; but reason speaketh in the cause of him who
hath acquired it."-Dean Bolton.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK: >

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

346 & 348 BROADWAY.

M.DCCC.LVII.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of
New York.

In Memory

OF THE

HON. JAMES IREDELL,

LATE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES,

ETC., ETC.,

THIS RECORD OF A FATHER,

WHOSE GENIUS HE INHERITED, AND WHOSE VIRTUES HE EMULATED;

IN MEMORY

OF HIM TO WHOSE PARENTAL CARE

I AM INDEBTED FOR THE GREATEST OF ALL BLESSINGS

AN ADMIRABLE WIFE,

THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

BY

GRIFFITH J. McREE.