Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Other service Concurrent with his federal judicial service, Richardson was the editor of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States from 1874 to 1891, as well as a professor of law at Georgetown Law from 1879 to 1894. Richardson was also a member of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Family Richardson's father was Daniel Richardson who practiced law and was Tyngsborough's postmaster, and his mother was Mary Adams of Chelmsford. Richardson was the descendant of Ezekiel Richardson who settled in Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Richardson's mother died in 1825 and her sister became his step-mother the next year. Works The Banking Laws of Massachusetts (Lowell, 1855) Supplement to the General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with George P. Sanger (Boston, 1860–1882) Practical information concerning the public debt of the United States: with the national banking laws (Washington, D.C., 1872) He prepared and edited: Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, 2nd ed. (1881) History, Jurisdiction, and Practice of the Court of Claims (United States) (1882–1885) References Sources External links 1821 births 1896 deaths 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges United States Secretaries of the Treasury Harvard Law School alumni Massachusetts lawyers American militia officers Massachusetts state court judges Judges of the United States Court of Claims Grant administration cabinet members United States Article I federal judges appointed by Ulysses S. Grant Pinkerton Academy alumni Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) Harvard College alumni