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18-493: The awards stem from the Society's wish to establish a permanent reminder of the "noblest human qualities as expressed and followed in the life of its first president, Algernon Sydney Sullivan; and to do so in a manner which will perpetuate the influence of such a man, not so much as an individual but as a type." Specifically, each awarding institution seeks recipients with Sullivan's ideals of heart, mind, and conduct as evidenced by

36-562: A lawyer of New York City. Sullivan died December 4, 1887. In 1926 The New York Southern Society established the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award which is presented to undergraduate seniors at colleges and universities across the eastern United States. The participating institutions present the award as determined by a vote of the faculty. After the New York Southern Society closed its doors,

54-719: A partner in Sullivan & Cromwell in 1879. In 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate (a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama), Philippe Bunau-Varilla , hired him to lobby the US Congress to build a canal across Panama , and not across Nicaragua , as rivals would have it. Cromwell showed that Nicaragua had an active volcano. On June 19, 1902, three days after senators received stamps showing volcanic activity in Nicaragua they voted for

72-513: A spirit of love for and helpfulness to others, who "excel in high ideals of living, in fine spiritual qualities, and in generous and unselfish service to others. When the institution makes the Student Award, it appoints the recipient as its representative to bear its standard before the world." The Award consists of a copper medallion, an engraved certificate, and the biography of Algernon Sydney Sullivan . Recipients were chosen yearly from

90-447: A younger brother named Jeremiah C. Sullivan who, in addition to his legal career, also had a successful military career in both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army . Algernon Sullivan was educated at Hanover College and Miami University , graduating in 1845. While a law student, about the age of twenty, he made a tour of Indiana, in advocacy of taxation for the maintenance of public schools. After studying law in his father's office, he

108-459: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Algernon Sydney Sullivan Algernon Sydney Sullivan (1826–1887) was an American lawyer noted for his role in the business law firm Sullivan & Cromwell . Algernon Sydney Sullivan was born in Madison, Indiana on April 5, 1826, son of Jeremiah Sullivan (1794–1870) and Charlotte Rudesel (Cutler) Sullivan. He was named in honor of

126-721: The British politician, Algernon Sidney . His father was a lawyer, held the rank of Major in the War of 1812, and became a member of the Indiana legislature in 1821. Jeremiah Sullivan was also a judge of the criminal court of Jefferson County, Indiana , and of the Indiana Supreme Court (1837 - 1846). His grandfather, Thomas Littleton Sullivan, the son of an Irish barrister, emigrated from Charleville, County Cork , Ireland , in 1791, to Augusta County, Virginia . He also had

144-643: The Panama route for the canal. For his lobbying efforts, he received the sum of $ 800,000. (about 30 million USD today). After the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was ratified, Cromwell was paid another $ 2,000,000 (about 70 million USD today) – at the time, the highest amount ever paid to a lawyer. By 1907, he was a member of the Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York , one of around 13,000. One of his main pro bono activities

162-583: The awards were continued by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation and grew to include many institutions throughout the country, such as Campbellsville University , in Campbellsville , Kentucky , which awarded one of its first two honors to the physician Forest Shely, who was a CU trustee from 1954 until his death in 2010. William Nelson Cromwell William Nelson Cromwell (January 17, 1854 – July 19, 1948)

180-549: The court in the trial of any question of law and fact with which it had to deal." He was a Whig in politics until 1856, when he became a Democrat , in which party he remained until his death. Sullivan was concerned with the affairs of charitable organizations and of the First Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the American and New York State Bar associations, many social and scientific clubs, and

198-592: The establishment of the Award in other institutions, and for the disposition of the fund provided for that purpose. By 1934, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award was being presented to deserving individuals at thirteen colleges throughout the South. In 1936, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation began distributing scholarships at four of those institutions. This award -related article

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216-441: The firm of Sullivan, Kobbe & Fowler was dissolved and he formed a partnership with William Nelson Cromwell , under the name of Sullivan & Cromwell, which firm name is still retained by the successors to his business. Judge Bookstaver, of New York, in speaking of him, said: "He was always welcomed by the court in any case in which he appeared, because it was felt that his learning, ability, and absolute truthfulness would assist

234-584: The graduation class of each institution, which also had the privilege of honoring one non-student conspicuously helpful to and associated with the institution in its effort to encourage and preserve a high standard of character. The award was first given by the New York Southern Society in honor of prominent New York lawyer, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, at Peabody College in Nashville, now part of Vanderbilt University . That success led to

252-580: Was admitted to the bar in 1848, and for eight years practiced in Cincinnati, Ohio . In 1857, Sullivan moved to New York City , and soon took a prominent position as a lawyer. He was retained to defend the officers and crew of the Confederate schooner Savannah, the first vessel to be captured during the Civil War, who were on trial for their lives on the charge of piracy. From 1870 to 1873 Sullivan

270-659: Was an American attorney active in promotion of the Panama Canal and other major ventures especially in cooperation with Philippe Bunau-Varilla . He was born and raised in Brooklyn , New York, in an Episcopalian household, by his mother, Sarah M. Brokaw, a Civil War widow. His father, John Nelson Cromwell, died in the Battle of Vicksburg . He worked as an accountant for the attorney Algernon Sydney Sullivan , who paid for his education at Columbia Law School and made him

288-404: Was assistant district attorney for New York City, and upon leaving that office he formed a partnership with Hermann Kobbe and Ludlow Fowler. In 1875, he was appointed public administrator, during which he instituted many reforms, reducing the charges upon estates administered, and, in spite of pressure, retaining in his service efficient assistants of a political party different from his own. In 1878

306-477: Was helping the blind. Another was the founding of "the Society of Friends of Roumania" in 1920 under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Marie of Romania . Under his tutelage, the New York-based Society promoted numerous exchanges between the two countries and published the distinguished Roumania – A Quarterly Review . This article about an American businessperson born in the 1850s

324-535: Was the first president of the Southern Society of New York. In 1851, he was married to Mary Slocum Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who died in the same year. He was married again, in 1855, to Mary Mildred Hammond Sullivan, an influential civic leader and philanthropist in New York City. She was the daughter of George W. Hammond of Winchester, Va. She survived him with one son, George Hammond Sullivan,

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