Daniel Call (1765–1840)
Daniel Call succeeded Bushrod Washington as compiler of the Virginia Court of Appeals's published case reports.
Daniel Call was born on 5 May 1765 in Prince George County, Virginia. He studied law under George Wythe and opened a practice in Petersburg. In 1787 he married Elizabeth Taliaferro (Wythe's niece); she died six years later, shortly after the birth of their only child. In 1797 Call wed Lucy Nelson Ambler (1776–1846), the sister-in-law of John Marshall.
"Call, Daniel (1765-1840)," in Sara B. Bearss et al., eds., The Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Volume II, Bland-Cannon (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2001), 513–15.
"From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Call, 15 August 1799," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-31-02-0138. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 31, 1 February 1799 – 31 May 1800, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 165–166.]
"Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Call, 13 May 1820," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0551-0001. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 591–592.]
Richmond Enquirer, 22 May 1840, page 3, column 3 (Newspapers.com).
Daniel Call at Find a Grave.
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