Daniel Lord

For the Catholic priest and writer, see Daniel A. Lord

Daniel Lord (September 23, 1795 – March 4, 1868) was a New York City attorney. His firm was eventually joined by his son-in-law Henry Day and son Daniel Lord Jr. to form Lord Day & Lord. John Jacob Astor was among Lord's clients. He graduated from Yale College in 1814.

Career Lord was a legal contemporary of Chief Justices Thomas J. Oakley and William Alexander Duer, Chancellors Reuben H. Walworth and James Kent, and Spencer, Wood, Ogden Hoffman, Stevens, Hill, and Bradford. The firm operated until October 1994.

In 1851 he delivered Yale University on Phi Beta Kappa address.

Personal life On May 16, 1818, Lord was married to Susan DeForest (1799–1879), a daughter of Lockwood DeForest and Mehitabel ( Wheeler) DeForest. Together, they were the parents of:

Daniel DeForest Lord (1819–1894), who married Mary Howard Butler (1823–1880), a daughter of Attorney General Benjamin Franklin Butler, in 1844. After Mary's death, he married Elizabeth Riley. in 1864. His death in 1868 was attributed to "paralysis".