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An American novelist, son of Chancellor Walworth; born in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1837; died in New York city, June 3, 1873. Abandoning the law for literature, he became connected with The Home Journal, and subsequently wrote many novels and romances. He was shot by his son, who was acquitted on the ground of insanity. He wrote: "Mission of Death"; "Lulu" (1860); "Hotspur" (1861); "Warwick" (1868); "Beverly" (1873); and two posthumous works, "Married in Mask" (1888) and "Tahara" (1888). He had completed a "Life of Chancellor Livingston"; and was writing "Lives of the Chancellors of New York State".