while at work on the final volume. Active in the affairs of his alma mater, he was elected president of the New York association of Cornell alumni in 1882 and was twice the candidate of New York and other alumni for trustee of Cornell in 1882 and 1883, during the alumni agitation for new methods in university management. He was elected a member of the Aldine and Cornell clubs in New York. He lectured on early American history and made addresses before the New York Historical Society, the New York library club and the Wyoming, Pennsylvania Commemorative Association. In 1883, he married Virginia Isabel, daughter of Alexander Stanton and Sarah Ann Forbes of New York City. She died in January 1899. In her memory, he published, anonymously, Virginia Isabel Forbes the year after her death. He did not remarry. Halsey's brother, Frederick Arthur Halsey, graduated from Cornell in 1878 with a degree in mechanical engineering, authored articles and books about engineering, with an emphasis the metric system, and was editor of the American Machinist. Frederick's daughters were Marion S. and Olga S. Halsey. Works Two Months Abroad (1878) An introduction to Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679, with his American Descendents to the Eighth and Ninth Generations, by Jacob LaFayette Halsey and Edmund Drake Halsey (1895) Virginia Isabel Forbes (1900), a memoir of his wife The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614-1800, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901 American Authors And Their Homes, Personal Descriptions And Interviews, J. Pott & Company, New York (1901) The Pioneers of Unadilla Village, 1784-1840 (1902) Our Literary Deluge And Some of Its Deeper Waters (1902) The World's Famous Orations (with William Jennings Bryan) (ed., 10 volumes, 1906) The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose (with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge) (ed., 10 volumes, 1909) Great Epochs in American History, Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (ed., 10 volumes, 1912) Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (Project Gutenberg) (ed., 10 volumes, 1914) The Literary Digest History of the World War, compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others (10 Volumes, 1919–20) Sources James H. Pickering (Michigan State University), New York in the Revolution: Cooper's Wyandotté, Published in New York History, Vol. XLIX, No. 2 (April 1968), pp. 121-141 Guide to the Halsey Family