Columns in Winter
The Peter Augustus Jay House (Rye, New York) during a snowstorm. Just 3 days after the temperature topped out at a springlike 67°F (19.4°C), a snowstorm again whitened the landscape. Peter Augustus Jay built the Greek Revival mansion in 1838. Jay was admitted to the New York State bar in 1797 and entered into a partnership with his cousin Peter Jay Munro. Among his cases, he defended the students who rioted during Columbia College's 1811 commencement exercises. He lost that case. In 1816, he was elected to the New York Assembly as a Federal Republican. There, he supported legislation for the construction of the Erie Canal and abolition of slavery in New York State. In 1821, as a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, he called for suffrage for free African-Americans. In 1832, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Harvard University--February 21, 2011
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