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A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton
A nineteenth-century court stenographer and compiler, he is remembered for preserving major Civil War-era legal and political proceedings in print. His surviving works offer a direct window into the language and tensions of public life in New York at the time.
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Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton
About the author
Born in Ireland on July 12, 1828, Adolphus Frederick Warburton later settled in New York, where he built a career as a stenographer. Contemporary records describe him as well known in that work, and note that he was still serving in the Superior Court shortly before his death.
Warburton is best known today through publications that captured important public events of his era. Among them are Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy and Loyal Meeting of the People of New-York, works that preserve courtroom argument, public speeches, and the political atmosphere of the Civil War period.
He died in New York on July 18, 1888, after a short illness. Though not widely known as a literary author in the usual sense, his books remain valuable for readers interested in American history, law, and the spoken record of the nineteenth century.