the leaders of the New York Bar Association and leading counsel in many important tax and corporation, especially railroad, cases. He drafted the Interstate Commerce Act at the request of the Senate Committee on Railroads; was counsel before the Interstate Commerce Commission in many of the most noted cases ever heard by it; and in the late case of Farmers' Loan and Trust Company v. New York and Northern Railway Company, he secured a reversal, by the New York Court of Appeals, of the judgment below, vindicated the rights of minority stockholders, defined the obligations of corporate directors and made the case a leading one in application of equity rules to corporate, especially railroad, management. Among minor items of his life's work he was editor, in 1867, of the New York Commercial Advertiser. Besides many articles contributed to periodicals and reviews in this country and Europe on social economics, American city administration, legislation, monopoly and railroads, he published "Representative Government and "Development of Political and Constitutional History of the United States; " was a voluminous contributor to Lalor's " 'Cyclopedia of Political Science and United States History," and wrote the introduction to Mongredien's "Wealth Creation.” He was a member of the Cobden and Athenaeum Clubs of London; of the Manhattan, Reform, Democratic, Nineteenth Century and Lawyer's Clubs of New York, and of the Latashguan Salmon Club and Blooming Grove Park Association of Pike county, Pennsylvania. Shortly after 1860 he married Miss Mathilde Elsberg, who, with a daughter, survives him. After a life's work, such as might well have filled a century, he was fresh in mind, hopeful and genial in disposition, young in vigor and not old in years when he passed away. Mr. Sterne was elected a member of the New York State Bar Association in 1889. |