VERPLANCK, Daniel Crommelin, member of congress, born in Dutchess county, New York, in 1761; died near Fishkill, New York, 29 Marcia, 1834. He received a good education, served in congress from 17 October, 1803, till 3 March, 1809, and was first judge of the court of common pleas for Dutchess county, from 11 March, 1828, till 16 January, 1830. He took great interest in agriculture. His estate at Fishkill had been in the possession of the family since 1682, and the house, which was erected several years later, is still standing. It is a one-story building of stone and wood in the Dutch style. This place was the headquarters of Baron Steuben at one time, and in it Colonel Lewis Nicola proposed to make Washington a king. (See illustration.)--His son, Gulian Crommelin, author, born in New York city, 6 August, 1786; died there, 18 March, 1870, was graduated at Columbia in 1801, being the youngest bachelor of arts that ever received his diploma from that college. He afterward studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in New York city. Soon afterward he went to Europe, where he passed several years in travel. On his return he took an active part in state politics, and became a member of the legislature in 1820. In 1821 he was appointed professor of the evidences of revealed religion and moral science in the Protestant Episcopal general theological seminary, New York city, and retained this chair four years. He was a member of congress from 1825 till 1833, was a member of the state senate in 1838-'41, and was for many years president of the board of commissioners of emigration, he was one of the vestrymen of Trinity church, New York city, a governor of the City hospital in 1823-'65, and vice-chancellor of the State university from 1855 till his death. For many years Mr. Verplanck was president of the Century club, and prominent in the annual conventions of the diocese. He published an anniversary discourse on the early European friends of America (New York, 1818); "The Bucktail Bards: containing the State Triumvirate, a Political Tale; and the Epistles of Brevet Major Pindar Puff," being political pamphlets chiefly aimed at De Witt Clinton, mayor of New York city (1819); "Proces Verbal of the Ceremony of Installation" (1820) ; "Address before the American Academy of Fine Arts" (1824); "Essays on the Nature and Uses of the Various Evidences of Revealed Religion" (1824); "Essay on the Doctrine of Contracts" (1825); "Discourses and Addresses on Subjects of American History, Arts, and Literature" (1833) ; "Shakespeare's Plays, with his Life, with Critical Introduction and Notes" (3 vols., 1847); and several college orations, the best known of which is " The American Scholar," delivered at Union college in 1836. He prepared also for fifteen years nearly all the annual reports of the commissioners of emigration, and with William C. Bryant and Robert C. Sands, edited the "Talisman," an annual, which continued three years, beginning with 1827. These volumes, containing some of the choicest productions of their authors, were republished in 1833 with the title of "Miscellanies first published under the Name of the ' Talisman.' "--His cousin, Isaac A., jurist, born in Coeymans, Albany County, New York, 16 October, 1812; died in Buffalo, New York, 16 April, 1873, was graduated at Union in 1831, studied law, and began practice in Batavia, New York, in 1834. He went to Buffalo in 1847, was elected a judge of the superior court of that city in 1854, and twice re-elected, and by the choice of his associates was made chief. As a member of the convention of 1867-'8 he assisted materially in the revision of the state constitution.