John Oliver Halstead Pitney
John Oliver Halstead Pitney was an American lawyer from New Jersey.[1]
Author Kim Isaac Eisler described him as a New Jersey blue-blood.[1]
His father and older brother Mahlon Pitney were also lawyers.[2] Mahlon would eventually serve on the United States Supreme Court.[1] He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.[3] He graduated from Princeton Law School, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1884.
He Great-grandfather Henry Cooper Pitney served in the Revolutionary War.[2]
Founded the Mutual Benefits Life Insurance Company and Pitney Hardin law firm.[1][2]
Kim Isaac Eisler wrote that his firm's clients included "some of the most notoriously antilabor corporations in the state of New Jersey."[1] Due to its strike-breaking work Pitney Hardin and Ward was known in the labor movement as "Pluck'em, Hook'em and Sink'em".[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kim Isaac Eisler (2003). The Last Liberal: Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and the Decisions That Transformed America. Beard Books. pp. 32-35, 38, 52-53. ISBN 9781587982712. https://books.google.ca/books?id=kKhAkSaXMFoC&pg=PA34&dq=%22Day,+Berry+and+Howard%22+OR+%22Day+Pitney%22+OR+%22Pitney+Hardin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijo4PHh8LsAhUHheAKHTrZA4sQ6AEwBHoECCoQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Day%2C%20Berry%20and%20Howard%22%20OR%20%22Day%20Pitney%22%20OR%20%22Pitney%20Hardin%22&f=false. Retrieved 2020-10-18. "It is often reported that Pitney, Hardin & Ward, now located in Morristown, New Jersey, was founded by one Supreme Court justice and produced another. But it is not true. Mahlon Pitney had little to do with the firm. It was Mahlon's brother, John, who built up the law firm that later became known as Pitney, Hardin Ward & Brennan."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Pitney Family History". https://pitneyfarm.org/about-pitney/pitney-family-history/. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ↑ "The Phi Beta Kappa Key, Vol. 7, No. 9 (October, 1930)". The Phi Beta Kappa Society. October 1930. p. 606. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42914277.pdf#page=9. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
