Reminiscences of Eustace Seligman : oral history, 1975

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family background, influences; New York, N.Y., childhood; education, Amherst College, 1910, law schools: Harvard, 1910-1912, Columbia, LLB, 1914; corporate law practice with Sullivan and Cromwell, 1914-1970; trusteeship, Amherst College, 1942-1972, impressions of Amherst presidents, fellow trustees; World War I experiences as Judge Advocate trying conscientious objector cases; philosophy of education; development of political views

Subjects

• Amherst College.
• Conscientious objectors.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Law partnership.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Practice of law.
• Seligman, Eustace.
• Sullivan & Cromwell.
• World War, 1914-1918.