SELDEN, Samuel Lee, jurist, born in Lyme, Connecticut, 12 October, 1800" died in Rochester, New York, 20 September, 1876. His ancestors settled in the colony of Connecticut in 1636. He began to practise law in Rochester in 1825, was chancery clerk and first judge of common pleas in Monroe county for many years, and in 1847 was elected justice of the superior court. In 1856 tie was elected judge of the court of appeals, which place he resigned in 1864.-His brother, Henry Rogers, jurist, born in Lyme, Connecticut, 14 October, 1805; died in Rochester, New York, 18 September, 1885. In 1825 he removed to Rochester, New York, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1830o tie began practice in Clarkson, Monroe County, but returned to Rochester in 1859; and was reporter of the court of appeals in 1851-'4. He was a Democrat, but, being opposed to the extension of slavery, aided in the formation of the Republican party, and in 1856 was its successful candidate for' the lieutenant-governorship. He attended tile Republican national convention at Chicago in 1860, and concurred with his colleagues from New York in advocating the nomination of William H. Seward, but acquiesced in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. In July, 1862, Mr. Selden was appointed a judge of the court of appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, and he was afterward elected for a full term, but resigned in 1864. In 1872 he attended the Cincinnati convention that nominated Horace Greeley for the presidency, and, though opposed to this course, reluctantly supported him in his canvass. He published "Reports, New York Court of Appeals, 1851-'4" (6 vols., Albany, 1853-'60).