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VOORHIES, John Stevens, publisher, born in New York city, 9 May, 1809; died in Brooklyn, New York, 19 November, 1865. He was a clerk for Oliver Halsted, who had established a law-book store in New York city in 1820, became his partner, and finally succeeded him in 1842, becoming well known as a publisher of legal works. He was specially kind to young lawyers in furnishing books on liberal terms, and great reliance was placed on his judgment and knowledge in the selection of law libraries, After his death his business was continued by the firm of Baker, Voorhies, and Co. He projected and published "Sedgwick on Damages" (New York, 1848); "Voorhies's Code of Civil Procedure" (New York, 1851); "Burrill's Voluntary Assignments" (1858); "Greenleaf's Overruled Cases " (1856); " Burrill's Circumstantial Evidence" (1856); "Abbott's Digest" (5 vols., 1860); "Cleveland's Banking Laws" (1860) ; and many other works.
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