George J. Sicard
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George J. Sicard (February 24, 1838 - August 26, 1904) was an American attorney who was a law partner of Grover Cleveland.
Sicard was born in New York City on February 24, 1838.[1] He was the youngest son of prominent merchant Stephen Sicard (1795–1839) and Lydia Eliza (née Hunt) Sicard (1813–1888). Among his siblings were Stephen Sicard and Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard.[2] After the death of his father in 1839, his mother brought the family to Utica, New York, where her father, Montgomery Hunt, was the long-time cashier of the Bank of Utica.[1]
His maternal uncle was Ward Hunt, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals who was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Ulysses S. Grant.[3]
Sicard prepared for college at the Utica Free Academy before entering Hamilton College, of which he was an 1859 graduate.[4] In Syracuse, he studied law in the offices of Hunt & Waterman before he was admitted to the bar in 1861.[1]