Elisha Hampton Mulford ^{1 2}

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Elisha Mulford
Cyclopadia of American Literature
Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
The author of one of the most valuable contributions to political philosophy made in tis generation is a native and resident of Montrose, Pennsylvania. He was born November 19, 1833. His father, Silvanus Sandford Mulford, is a descendant of William Mulford, who emigrated from England to Southampton, Long Island in 1643.
Elisha received his preparatory education at Cortland Academy in Homer, New York, and entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1855. The year following he gave to the study of the law, in the office of his uncle, the Hon. William Jessup. He then became a student of theology in New York and at Andover, and his education was continued in Germany at Berlin and Heidelberg. This broad culture gave him a comprehensive view of politics and philosophy, and grounded his thoughts in the Catholic theology of the church.
In 1870, he published The Nation: the Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States. A "Students' Edition" appeared two years later. This work has been described by the Boston Advertiser as "not unworthy to be named with the Politics, the Republic, the Philosophic des Rechts, and the Spirit of Laws." Mr. J. Elliot Cabot, in Old and New, has also justly represented it as corresponding in the main with the idea Aristotle and Hegel, but "a more adequate representation than before of the meaning and functions of the State."
Mr. Mulford received in 1872 the degree of LL.D., from Yale College. In the winter of the same year, he gave a course of lectures on "The Relations of Politics and Jurisprudence," before the Law School of Columbia College.
He was the author of "The Nation" and "The Republic of God", published respectively in 1871 and 1881.

Elisha married Rachel P. Carmalt in 1862.¹