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1. Edwin Denison Morgan was a Major General in the Civil War and 21st Governor of New York.
Morgan was born in Washington, Massachusetts on February 8, 1811. He began his business career
as a grocer in Hartford, Connecticut. He became a partner with his uncle and served on the city
council. In 1836, he removed to New York City and became a successful wholesaler, broker and banker.
He was an alderman, member of the New York State Senate from 1850 to 1853, and State Commissioner
of Immigration. Morgan became highly influential in Republican politics of his time and twice
served as chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1856 to 1864 and 1872 to 1876. He was
Governor of New York from 1859 through 1862, elected in 1858 and 1860. He was appointed major
general of volunteers in September 1861 and commanded the Department of New York until he resigned
on January 3, 1863, serving simultaneously as governor and head of the military department.
In February 1863, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and served one term until 1869. In January
1869, he sought re-nomination, but was voted down by the Republican caucus of State legislators
who instead nominated Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton. In 1876, Morgan ran again for Governor but
was defeated by Democrat Lucius Robinson. In 1881, Morgan was nominated by President Chester A.
Arthur as Treasury Secretary and was confirmed by the Senate, but declined the position.[3]:255
Known for generous contributions to charities and causes, he contributed large sums to the Union
Theological Seminary. Edwin Morgan was a cousin of Morgan G. Bulkeley, the Governor of Connecticut
from 1889 to 1893. Morgan died in New York City on February 14, 1883.[2] He was buried at the Cedar
Hill Cemetery in Hartford.
2. Robert Campbell was Lt. Governor under Edwin D. Morgan
3. Robert Sherman
4. Robert Denniston Lt. of 91st Infantry New York State Militia
He was the son of James Denniston (ca. 1770–1825) and Prudence Morrison Denniston. On
September 24, 1823, he married Julianna Howell (d. 1825). Afterwards he married Mary Scott,
and they had five sons and six daughters. He served as an officer of the New York State
Militia and as a Justice of the Peace in Blooming Grove. He was appointed by Governor
William L. Marcy a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Orange County. He was a Democratic
member of the New York State Assembly (Orange Co.) in 1835, 1839 and 1840.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1841 to 1847, sitting in the
64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th and 70th New York State Legislatures. In the Senate,
he was Chairman of the Committee on Canals. As a Republican, he ran for New York State
Comptroller in 1857 but was defeated by Democrat Sanford E. Church. He ran again in 1859
and was elected, being in office from 1860 to 1861.
5. Charles G. Myers
Myers was born in 1810 in Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York. He attended St. Lawrence
Academy in Potsdam. In 1825, he began to study law in the office of Governeur Ogden in Waddington,
was admitted to the bar in 1832, and practiced law in Ogdensburg. He was Surrogate of St. Lawrence
County from 1844 to 1847. In 1847 he was living at Oswegatchie. He was a member from St. Lawrence
County of the New York State Assembly in 1848. He was District Attorney of St. Lawrence County
from 1848 to 1853. Aside from his legal career, Myers was also a businessman, and a director of
the Great Northern Lead Company, which was incorporated on September 8, 1852 at Rossie, New York
and operated a lead mine for a few years. He was New York Attorney General from 1860 to 1861,
elected on the Republican and American tickets. He was a canal appraiser from 1873 to 1879. The
year and place of his death are unknown.
6. John Meredith Read, Jr. Brigadier General (Adjutant-General) Civil War
John Meredith Read, Jr. was born in Philadelphia on February 21, 1837. The Read family was prominent
in American political life; Read's great-grandfather George Read signed the Declaration of Independence
and was a framer of the Constitution; his father, John Meredith Read, Sr., was a prominent Pennsylvania
jurist who was outspoken on the "Free Kansas" issue and was later appointed Chief Justice of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Read was educated at a military school, followed by college education at
Brown University and Albany (New York) Law School, from which he graduated in 1859. That year he was
admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and married Delphine Marie Pumpelly.
Read was an active supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party in the elections of 1860.
As a reward, he was promoted to brigadier-general (the youngest man ever to hold this rank) and made
adjutant-general of New York State, directing military affairs there during the Civil War with great
success, eventually receiving official recognition from the War Department. His support of the
Republican party continued through the Civil War, and he was active in General Ulysses S. Grant's
campaign for President in 1868. His reward for service this time was to be appointed consul-general to
France and Algeria in 1869. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Read acted as the representative
for the German government, protecting German interests and citizens until the Germans re-established
diplomatic relations in 1872; for this, the Kaiser eventually tried to confer a knighthood on Read, but
Congress never passed the resolution that would have allowed this. Read also looked after American and
French interests during the Paris Commune uprising and the second siege of Paris. The French held him
in such high esteem that in 1872 the Minister of War appointed him president of a commission to determine
whether French troops should be taught English.
Recognizing Read's talents in the diplomatic service, Grant appointed him the first resident minister
to Greece in 1873. Once again, his term of office was marked with diplomatic successes. One of his
first accomplishments was to gain the release of the American ship Armenia from Greek authorities. In 1876,
he compelled the Greek government to revoke an order banning sales of English translations of the Bible.
In 1877, he notified the U.S. press that the Russo-Turkish War was disrupting Russia's wheat exports to
Europe and that U.S. exports to Europe at that time might capture the market. The resulting grain exports
to Europe netted U.S. businessmen $73 million. As minister, he was also responsible for protecting American
interests and citizens during the Balkan crisis and War of 1875-1878.
Although Read was acclaimed both in Greece and America for his skillful diplomacy, Congress soon reduced
the appropriations for Read's office during the financial slump of the late 1870's. He was reduced to the
rank of chargé d'affaires in 1876, and the funding for the legation was cut off completely in 1878. As the
Greek crisis with Turkey was at its height (and the Berlin Conference, which was to settle the issue, was
still in the planning stages), Read, with the backing of the State Department, the Greek Prime Minister and
King George I of Greece, declined to close the mission and remained in Greece at his own expense until 1880,
at which time he retired. In 1881, King George made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer,
the highest award the Greek government could bestow. He was also a member and later President of the
Archaeological Society of Athens.
Read gained a reputation during his life as a scholar and historian. His best known work is A Historical
Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson (1866), which made new discoveries concerning the explorer's ancestors and
antecedents; he was also the author of The Relation of Soil to Plants and Animals (1860), "First Annual
Discourse before the Delaware Historical Society" (1864) and "A Letter in Greek and English addressed to
the Archaeological Society of Greece upon the Death of the 5th Earl Stanhope, the Historian of the Reign of
Queen Anne" (1875). Read spent his final years in Paris editing his collection of historical manuscripts
relating to France, England, America and Greece; he also spent time preparing these manuscripts, as well as
his various memoirs and letters, for publication. Read died in Paris on December 27, 1896. His final work,
Historic Studies in Vaud, Bern and Savoy; from Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau and Gibbon appeared
posthumously in 1897.
The collection consists primarily of documents relating to the latter half of Read's career, specifically
to his posting in Greece. These documents were transcribed into a series of typewritten folios with the
intention of being published as a book, tentatively titled Impressions of Greece Under King George, 1873-1882.
The transcriptions include extensive notes on historical and travel works by other authors, Read's correspondence,
Read's general impressions of Greece and commentary on Greek life. These transcriptions were presumably made
around the time of Read's death; many have handwritten corrections and additions. There is also a series of
handwritten notebooks from which some of the material was transcribed, although many of the original notebooks
are not in the collection and may no longer exist. In addition to the Greek material, there are also typewritten
manuscripts covering topics such as Read's experience during the sieges of Paris; travel memoirs of England,
France and Cuba; and autobiographical sketches. Some miscellaneous handwritten notebooks are in the collection
which are preliminary notes and collections of sources for Historic Studies in Vaud, Bern and Savoy. Finally,
there is a series of notebooks, scrapbooks and sketchbooks belonging to Read, Read's eldest son Harmon Pumpelly
Read, Harmon Read's wife (Marguerite de Carron d'Allondans) and a relative of Mrs. Read's (Louise Carron), as
well as some notebooks that may belong to John Meredith Read, Sr. The titles and descriptions of the contents
in the collection are taken directly from the papers themselves when possible, although they have been expanded
where necessary to assist the researcher. Most of the documents are in English, with some in French.
7. Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn Colonel and commander of the 110th New York Volunteer Infantry.
He initially pursued an academic course. Deciding to not complete college, he instead engaged in several
profitable mercantile pursuits, acting for a time as a forwarder of fresh produce on the lakes and canals
of the region. He later engaged in the manufacture of flour at Oswego, New York. He was Mayor of Oswego in
1849 and 1850. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co., 1st D.) in 1853, 1854, 1855, 1857,
1859, 1860, 1861, 1866, 1867, 1870, 1871 and 1884. He was Speaker in 1855, 1857, 1859, 1860 and 1861; and was
the chief lieutenant of political boss Thurlow Weed. Early in 1861, Littlejohn was influential in the backroom
politics to select Ira Harris over Horace Greeley as the Republican Party's nominee to run for the U.S. Senate
to succeed William H. Seward, who had not run for re-election, expecting to join President Abraham Lincoln's
Cabinet. In September, Littlejohn unsuccessfully sued Greeley and the New York Tribune for libel. With the
outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Littlejohn worked actively to recruit troops in the Oswego area. Littlejohn
used his political connections in July 1862 to secure a commission as Colonel of the 110th New York Volunteer
Infantry, a regiment he helped raise through his personal efforts. He trained his troops at Camp Patterson near
Baltimore, Maryland, where it was stationed until November, when it was ordered to Federal-occupied New Orleans,
Louisiana. Returning to politics, he successfully campaigned for the United States House of Representatives.
He was elected as a Republican to the 38th United States Congress. He resigned from the army on February 3, 1863,
and served in Congress from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1865. During that term, he was Chairman of the Committee
on Revolutionary Pensions. Littlejohn was not a candidate for renomination in 1864, and was brevetted Brigadier
General of Volunteers on March 13, 1865. He moved his residence to Buffalo, New York until 1867, when he moved
back to Oswego. Littlejohn wanted to afford Oswego the growth possible by a rail connection to a major port. In
1868, he organized and served as president of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad (NY&OM), a route traversing
much of New York State on its way to New York City.[1] He also established a steamboat service connecting Long
Island to his new railroad. In 1870 the Republican state convention nominated Littlejohn for Lieutenant Governor
of New York on the ticket with Stewart L. Woodford, but he declined to run. Fed up with the corruption of the Grant
Administration, in 1872 Littlejohn joined the Liberal Republican Party and supported the candidacy of Horace Greeley
for president in 1872, having set aside his previous legal issues with Greeley. He then became a Democrat, was a
delegate to several Democratic state conventions, and was an ally of Samuel J. Tilden. He died in Oswego, and was
buried at the Riverside Cemetery.
8. Stephen H. Ainsworth 2nd District Ontario County.
9. Lucius C. Andrus 5th District Kings
10. Andrew Malone
11. Wilkes Angel
He was the son of William G. Angel and Emily P. (English) Angel (1790–1822). In 1833, he removed with his father to
Hammondsport, New York, and in 1835 to Angelica, New York. He attended the common schools, studied law with his father,
was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Angelica. He was District Attorney of Allegany County from 1841 to 1844.
On December 23, 1841, he married Hannah Marble. He was Supervisor of Angelica in 1849, 1850 and 1861. He was a Republican
member of the New York State Assembly (Allegany Co., 1st D.) in 1861. He was a member of the New York State Senate
(30th D.) from 1862 to 1865, sitting in the 85th, 86th, 87th and 88th New York State Legislatures. In 1859, the county
seat of Allegany County was transferred to Belmont, and after his tenure in the State Senate Angel moved his law practice
there. In 1876, he was appointed Receiver of the Belmont and Buffalo Railroad. New York State Prison Inspector William P.
Angel; Washington Territorial Council member James R. Angel (1836–1899); and Texas Angel (1839–1903), a lawyer in Hailey,
Idaho, and Populist contender for U.S. Senator from Idaho in 1897); were his brothers.
12. Smith Anthony 84th NY State Assembly 2nd District Cayuga
13. Henry Arcularius 84th NY State Assembly 16th District New York Seat was unsuccessfully contested by Dennis McCabe.
Wrote about violence against the Irish by the Whig party.
14. Hon. Harvey Bailey 84th NY State Assembly 3rd District Jefferson
15. Edmund Baldwin 84th NY State Assembly Lewis County
16. L. Chandler Ball 84th NY State Assembly 2nd District Rensselaer County
17. Cero F. Barber 84th NY State Assembly Tioga County
18. Milton Barnes 84th NY State Assembly 2nd District Orange County
19. Gilbert Bedelle 84th NY State Assembly Greene County
20. Brigadier General Lewis Benedict, Jr. Lt. Colonel 73rd Infantry and Colonel 162nd NY Infantry Killed in battle April 9, 1864 at
Pleasant Hill, LA. Practiced law in Albany NY 1841. City Attorney 1845-47. Surrogate Albany County 1847-51. Member
of NY Assembly 1861. Judge Advocate General of New York 1846-51. Lt. Colonel 73rd Regmt. NY Volunteer Infantry
July 18, 1861 ; was captured with his regiment, fighting heroically at Williamsburg, VA; exchanged after several
months confinement in Libby and Salisbury prisons. Resigned September 1, 1862. Colonel of the 162nd Regmt. NY Volunteer
Infantry September 9, 1862; ordered to Department of Gulf and appointed Acting Brigadier General January 1863 and served
as such until his death; he was conspicuous for bravery in the assault on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, and was commissioned
March 13, 1865 (posthumously), Brevet Brigadier General for Gallant Conduct in that battle; commanded the Third Brigade,
First Division, 19th Army Corps, in the Red River Campaign; "In the battle of Pleasant Grove or Sabine Cross Roads, April
8, 1863, he held a pivotal position, and in the official report it is stated that his bravery and conduct in that action
saved the Union forces; in the Battle of Pleasant hill his Brigade held an important position; it was at first driven back,
but rallied and won a complete victory; in urging that rally and the following charge; Benedict fell, pierced by five balls."
21. Heman Benton 84th NY State Assembly Cayuga County 1st District
22. Alexander J. Bergen 84th NY State Assembly Suffolk County 2nd District
23. Anson Bingham 84th NY State Assembly Rensselaer County 3rd District
The editor's charges did not go unanswered. In three sequential articles- "Harper's Editor and the Women" -published in the
Lily, the first significant peri- odical to herald the woman's movement, the New York lawyer and woman's rights supporter
Anson Bingham challenged what he claimed was an absurd view of the Christian ecclesia.
24. Charles E. Birdsall 84th NY State Assembly New York County 13th District
25. Fredrick A. Bolles 84th NY State Assembly Ostego County 2nd District
26. Charles T. Brewster 84th NY Assembly Putnam County
27. Daniel B. Bryan 84th NY State Assembly Steuben County 1st District
28. Joseph Buckbee 84th NY State Assembly Scholarie County
29. James H. Burr 84th NY State Assembly Fulton and Hamilton Counties
30. Friend H. Burt 84th NY State Assembly Broome County
31. John Callahan 84th NY State Assembly New York County 1st District
32. Benjamin F. Camp 84th NY State Assembly Westchester County 3rd District
33. Thomas E. Carter 84th NY State Assembly Chenago County 1st District
34. Nicholas Mead Catlin 84th New York State Assembly Washington County 2nd District
35. Abner Chapman 84th NY State Assembly Onondaga County 3rd District
36. Clark S. Chittenden 84th NY State Assembly St. Lawrence County 3rd District
CLARK S. CHITTENDEN HOUSE once the home of Clark S. Chittenden, founder of Chittenden's Store. He was a great-grandson of
Vermont's first Governor, Thomas Chittenden, and he served as Town Supervisor for seven years and was a member of the State Legislature.
37. Norton S. Collin 84th NY State Assembly Columbia County 2nd District
38. Nathan Comstock 84th NY State Assembly Kings County 3rd District.
39. Joseph W. Corning 84th NY State Assembly Wayne County 2nd District
On the 19th of April, 1861, Hon. (now) Col. Joseph W. Corning, returned to his home in Palmyra, after having represented the 2d Assembly
District of Wayne county, during the session of the Legislature of 1861. On the morning of the 20th of April, the Stars and Stripes were
thrown from the law office of Mr. Corning, and on the 23d, the minimum number then required, 38 men, were enrolled. On that day a copy of
the roll was forwarded to the Adjutant-General for organization, but on the same day the Military Board issued an order, requiring the
maximum number, 77, before organization. From this fact some of the original men were lost, as they would not delay, and went to Rochester
or other places and enlisted in companies already organized, A public meeting of citizens of Palmyra was called, and a fund of $7,000 pledged
for the support of the families of volunteers. On the 3d day of May, 1861, the company was organized, 79 men strong, and officered as follows :
Captain—Joseph W. Corning.
First Lieutenant—Josiah J. White.
Second Lieutenant—Henry J. Draime.
By the delay of the inspector, the company waited six days for inspection; then a week more before quarters could be procured at, Elmira.
May 16th, the company left Palmyra 82 strong, amid an enthusiasm scarcely ever equaled in a country village. They were escorted to the
railroad by the entire populace, and left amid mingled cheers and tears. On the 21st of May the company was assigned as company B, Thirty-third
Regiment, New York State Volunteers. The regiment remained at Elmira until July 8th, 1861, when it left for Washington, and on the day of the
first battle of Bull Run was stationed at Camp Granger, north of Washington. The company was very materially advanced by the efforts of Colonel
Corning. During the two years that company was in service, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and each of the Lieutenants became Captains,
successively. Captain White lost his health and was forced to abandon the service, but Captain Draime and Colonel Corning remained in service
until the end of the war, coming home at different times and each taking part and materially assisting in raising and filling four regiments.
There was no effort in any other part of Wayne till some time after the company was raised at Palmyra, but during the same season a company was
raised in the eastern part of the county, with headquarters at Lyons, which subsequently became a part of the Twenty-seventh Regiment New York volunteers.
Lt. Colonel Joseph W. Corning's report from Antietam.
SIR: In obedience to orders, I have the honor to report that the Thirty-third Regiment New York Volunteers, near sunset on the 14th instant,
marched from their position east of Burkittsville, with the other troops of the Third Brigade, for Crampton's Pass. During a portion of the
march we were briskly shelled from the rebel battery on the mountain. The regiment continued the march steadily and in admirable order. We
ascended the mountain and marched to the left to support the Second Brigade, but were soon ordered to return to the road, and crossed over
to the west side of the mountain, and bivouacked at the base for the night. On the 15th took 7 prisoners. Remained at Pleasant Valley until
the morning of the 17th. Marched at 6 o'clock a. m. Upon arriving in front of the battle-field of Antietam Creek, I was ordered to form in
rear of and support the left of the brigade line, but just as they were engaging the enemy I received orders from the commanding division
general to support the right, and was ordered to march near the woods in front. When near the woods the enemy suddenly and unexpectedly opened
on the regiment a heavy fire from their infantry, who were in the woods, being in columns at the time, marching by the right flank. This sudden
and unexpected attack caused a momentary unsteadiness in the ranks, which was quickly rectified. The battalion faced by the rear rank and
returned the fire, when, by order of the commanding general, the regiment retired a short distance, under cover of a ridge, and formed the
right of the line of the brigade, where they remained during the day, under very severe cannonading from the enemy. We were relieved from this
front on the 19th, about 10 o'clock. The officers and men under my command behaved as well as could be expected of any troops under such trying
circumstances, and with great steadiness kept their position during the day. The casualties of the 17th were 6 killed and 41 wounded. Among
the killed I have to regret the loss of Sergt. Major George W. Bassett, a very efficient and gallant officer.
Respectfully submitted.
Joseph W. Corning served in three different New York regiment during the war. He enlisted as captain of Company B, 33rds NY in May 1861 and was
promoted to lieutenant colonel in October before the regiment’s term expired in June 1863. Lieutenant Colonel Co rning is referenced in O.R. reports
from the Peninsula campaign and was several times ‘mentioned in dispatches’ by superiors for his worthy conduct at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Ellison’s
Mill, New Bridge and Mechanicsville during the spring of 1862. His regiment suffered heavily at Antietam loosing 6 killed and 41 wounded according to
his battle report (see O.R.’s). Corning later joined the 111th NY as major in October 1864 and was discharged in February 1865 to take command of the
late war 194th NY, no doubt fulfilling the aspirations of a full bird colonel. Ironically, Corning was never mustered as colonel and was finally
discharged from service in May 1865.
40. Luke F. Cozans
He was the son of John Cozans and Mary (Comerford) Cozans (c.1796–1860). The family removed to New York City in 1839. He studied law with Ogden
Hoffman, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and practiced in New York City. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 10th D.)
in 1861; of the New York State Senate (5th D.) in 1864 and 1865; and again of the State Assembly (14th D.) in 1877. He was the Democratic candidate
for Speaker in 1877, but was defeated by Republican George B. Sloan.
He died of "kidney trouble" at his home at 2,016 Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, and was buried in White Plains.
41. Andrew Craft 84th New York State Assembly New York County 8th District
42. James Darcy 84th New York Assembly Kings County 4th District
43. Redman S. Davis 84th New York Assembly Steuben County 3rd District
44. John J. Doolittle 84th New York Assembly Wyoming County
45. John Bowdish Dutcher 84th New York Assembly Dutchess County 1st District
He was the son of David Dutcher (c.1797–1853) and Amy (Bowdish) Dutcher (c.1801–1875). He was Supervisor of the Town of Dover in 1857; and was elected
a Justice of the Peace in 1858. On May 22, 1860, he married Christina Dodge, and they had a son. He was a member of the New York State Assembly
(Dutchess Co., 1st D.) in 1861 and 1862; and of the New York State Senate (11th D.) in 1864 and 1865. In April 1861, he removed to the neighboring
Town of Pawling, and was the first President of the Village of Pawling, elected upon its incorporation in 1893. In 1864, he became a director of the
New York and Harlem Railroad, and later was a director of many railroad and other companies. In April 1894, he married Helen Titus Willets. He was
President of the National Bank of Pawling, the New York State Bankers Association, and the New York State Agricultural Society.
46. Jeremiah W. Dwight 84th New York State Assembly Tompkins County
Born April 17, 1819 in Cincinnatus, New York, his father was Elijah Dwight (1797–1868) and mother was Olive Standish (1795–1874), descended from Myles
Standish. His paternal great-grandfather was Joseph Dwight (1703–1765), making him part of the large New England Dwight family.[1] Dwight moved with
his parents in 1830 to Caroline, and in 1836 to Dryden, New York. He attended the district schools and the Burhan's School in Dryden. He engaged in
mercantile pursuits, farming, real-estate business, and in the manufacture and sale of lumber. He served as chairman of the board of supervisors of
the town of Dryden in 1857 and 1858. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Tompkins Co.) in 1860 and 1861. He was appointed by Governor Morgan
a member of the senatorial district war committee in 1861. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, and
1884. He served as director, member of the executive committee, and vice president of the Southern Central Railroad for many years. Dwight was elected
as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883). He declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1882, and resumed his former business activities. He died in Dryden, New York, November 26, 1885. He was interred in Green Hills Cemetery.
47. N. Dane Ellingwood 84th New York State Assembly Richmond County
48. Jeremiah Emerick 84th New York State Assembly Onondaga County 1st District
49. Samuel J. Farnum 84th New York State Assembly Dutchess County 2nd District
50. Walter A. Faxon 84th New York State Assembly Warren County
51. Elijah E. Ferry 84th New York State Assembly Ostego County 1st District
52. Zebulon Ferris 84th New York Assembly Erie County 4th District
53. Perez H. Field 84th New York Assembly Ontario County 1st District
54. Martin Finch 84th New York Assembly Essex County
55. Frothingham Fish 84th New York Assembly Montgomery County
Oddly named New Yorker Frothingham Fish was a two term member of the state assembly, a Montgomery County district attorney, and a State Supreme Court justice.
A scion of the prominent Fish family of New York state, Mr. Fish was blessed with a very eye-catching first name, one that is truly unique in the annals of
the New York State Assembly (a legislative body that has been very well represented here!) Born into a family that could count among its relations one
Preserved Fish (1766-1846), Frothingham Fish was the third of five children born to Howland (a former Montgomery County district attorney) and Eliza Frothingham Fish,
his birth occurring in the town on Glen, New York on August 26, 1820. Given the first name "Frothingham" due to it being his mother's maiden name, Fish followed in
his father's footsteps and embarked upon the study of law in Montgomery County, eventually establishing an office in the town of Fultonville. On April 29, 1845
Fish married to Susan E. Bronk (1820-1906), with whom he would have four children: Robert Bronk (1849-1919), Howland (1848-1888), Edmund (1858-1918) and Leonard
Frothingham (1867-1932). Of these children, Leonard followed in his grandfather's stead and was elected as the District Attorney for Montgomery County in 1893,
serving six years in office. Three years following his marriage Frothingham Fish was elected to the first of two terms in the New York State Assembly, representing
Montgomery County. Taking his seat at the beginning of the 1849 term, Fish served on the assembly committees on Privileges and Elections. He was later returned to
the assembly for the 1861 term and sat on the house committee on Claims. A capable member of the legislature, Fish was described in the 1861 Biographical Sketches
of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York as:
"Formerly a Whig. He adhered firmly to that ancient organization until it ceased to exist, and then became a Republican, to the principles and policy of which party
he is still firmly attached. He is not one of the rabid Abolition John Brown school of politicians, and in the present threatening aspect of our national affairs,
has generally, by his votes in the house, shown a disposition to do whatever appears best calculated to restore peace and quiet to the country."
After leaving the legislature Fish returned to practicing law in Fultonville and continued along this route until reentering political life in 1883, when he was
elected as an Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme Court for the state's 4th judicial district, which comprised the counties of Montgomery, Saratoga,
Warren, Fulton and Hamilton. His tenure on the court extended until 1891 when he retired, and during his time on the bench "occasionally presided at the Warren
County circuit at Lake George." Frothingham Fish spent the remainder of his life in retirement in Fultonville and died at his home there on April 27, 1895 aged
74, being mentioned in his Johnstown Daily Republican obituary as "having been an invalid for along time." He was survived by his wife Susan, who, following her
death in 1906 was interred in the same plot as her husband at the Fultonville Cemetery and Natural Burying Ground.
56. George H. Fisher 84th New York Assembly Kings County 7th District
57. Captain Stephen W. Fullerton Jr. 84th New York Assembly Orange County 1st District
Captain Stephen W. Fullerton, Jr., Co. B, 3d NYSV. Joined at Albany in April, 1861 as captain, age 26; died at his Newburgh home September 11, 1861.
58. John Fulton 84th New York Assembly Saratoga County 1st District
59. Stephen St. John Gardner 84th New York Assembly Sullivan County
60. Jay Gibbons 84th New York Assembly Albany County 1st District
He was the son of Alfred Gibbons and Dorcas (Sweet) Gibbons. On June 10, 1856, he married Emily Lockwood.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co., 1st D.) in 1861.[1] Gibbons was arrested on February 17, 1861 on charges of bribery.
He was expelled from the Assembly On April 3, 1861, for attempting to acquire bribes in order to vote for certain legislation.
61. John Hardy 84th New York Assembly New York County 11th District
Hardy was born in Scotland on September 19, 1835, he immigrated to the United States in 1839 with his parents, who settled in New York City. He attended the public
schools and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1853; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in New York City; member
of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 11th D.) in 1861; member of the board of aldermen of New York City in 1863, 1864, and 1867–1869; clerk of the common
council in 1870 and 1871; chief clerk in the office of the mayor in 1877 and 1878; elected as a Democrat to the 47th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Fernando Wood; reelected to the 48th United States Congress and served from December 5, 1881, until March 3, 1885; unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1884; resumed the practice of law in New York City and died there December 9, 1913; interment in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
62. Peter Hill 84th New York Assembly Washington County 1st District
63. Robert C. Hutchings 84th New York Assembly New york County 14th District
64. Francis A. Hyatt 84th new York Assembly Madison County 2nd District
Hyatt, Hon. Francis A., p. o. Perryville. was born in Ridgefleld, Fairfield county, Conn., August 5, 1828, a son of Aaron S. and Electa (Keeler) Hyatt. His father
settled in Madison county in 1832. The first of the Hyatt family to come to this country from England, was Thomas Hyatt, who settled in Stamford Conn, in 1641,
and was founder of this branch of the family in America. Francis A. Hyatt began business on the farm in 1850, and has since resided in the town of Fenner. He was
elected town clerk in 1856 serving several terms; justice of the peace in 1859 and held that office eight years; was elected road commissioner, but declined to serve;
was member of Assembly in 1861 aud again represented the district in the Legislature in 1872; was a delegate to the Republican State conventions of 1861, 1872, 1881.
1882, and 1895, and for many years was a notary public and often employed in the settlement of estates. He is a member of Sullivan Lodge. A. F. & A. M.. No. 148.
Mr. Hyatt is one of the best known men in Madison county, a representative citizen and although in a measure retired from active public duty, is still interested in
everything pertaining to the general welfare of the county. While courteous and liberal in his attitude towards the opinion of others, he holds firmly his own views,
and acts upon them in a conscientious manner.
65. Mathew Wiard 84th New York Assembly Livingston County 1st District
66. Colonel William Johnson 84th New York Assembly Seneca County
William Johnson was born on December 8, 1821 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to David Johnson and Olive (Stodard) Johnson. The family removed to Frankfort, New York,
where David died in 1825. At 14, William began studies in mechanics, and without completing a degree he began work as a contractor on public works projects. It was his
work on the New York State Canal System from 1849 through 1856 that brought him to Seneca Falls, New York. There he married in the summer of 1855 Angeline Chamberlain
(died 1901), daughter of Congressman Jacob P. Chamberlain. The couple had five sons, the last surviving of whom was Charles Chamberlain Johnson. The Johnson residence
still stands on Cayuga Street in Seneca Falls, and is being developed into condominiums after years as a home for women. In 1859, Johnson entered into the manufacture
of knit goods. He was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (Seneca Co.) in 1861, and was a member of the Canals Committee and the Commerce and Navigation
Committee. When the American Civil War began, he was appointed by Governor Edwin D. Morgan as Seneca County representative to the War Committee, responsible for procuring
troops and supplies. In 1862, he assembled 1200 men at Camp Swift in Geneva, New York. He was appointed Colonel and led the 148th Regiment into the war. He resigned his
commission and returned to New York in late 1863, citing ill health, but continued to support the Union cause at home. In the years following his Army service, Johnson
became a contractor for railroad construction. He was a member of the New York State Senate (26th D.) from 1872 to 1875, sitting in the 95th, 96th, 97th and 98th New
York State Legislatures. He was elected to the New York State Senate in the fall of 1871, as a Democrat representing the 26th District, then comprising Ontario, Seneca,
and Yates counties. He was elected with a vote majority cited between 950 and 1500 in a primarily Republican district. He became a member of the standing committees on
Canals, Manufactures, and Grievances. During this first senate term, then-State Senator William M. Tweed was embroiled in his corruption and embezzlement scandal. As
Chairman of the Special Committee investigating Tweed in the State Senate, Johnson went to meet with Tweed, who declared himself too sick to speak with the Senator.
Being charged with only 30 days in which to act on the matter, Johnson used what he viewed as Republican attempts at interference as leverage to aid in the passage of
his bill for the creation of an investigatory panel.[1] "Boss Tweed" was convicted in 1873. Johnson was re-elected to the State Senate by a margin of less than 200 votes.
During his second term as a State Senator, he was a member of the committees on Canals, Manufactures, and Militia. On October 11, 1875, Johnson returned to Seneca Falls
after having been in New York City. He fell ill that afternoon and died hours later of unreported causes. Johnson was remembered as being kind, personable, and frank.
As a State Senator he was regarded as being well-versed in many subjects as well as a deft conversationalist. He was known as a jovial man, with a sharp wit and strong
sense of irony.
67. Jay Jarvis Jones 84th New York Assembly New York County 17th District
68. William J.C. Kenny M.D. 84th New York Assembly New York County 4th District
69. Marqui L. Kenyon 84th New York Assembly Oneida County 3rd District
Builder of the Butterfield Trail and a Director of the Overland Mail Company
1858-1860
Marquis L. Kenyon moved from Mannsville, Jefferson County, to Rome, NY, in 1838. He immediately became involved with staging. His obituary in the Utica Daily Observer
(Utica, NY), obituary titled "The Late Hon. M. L. Kinyon (sic)," April 8, 1862 gives a good summation of his staging activities in Upstate New York and what led him to
be involved with the Overland Mail Company:
"His prior occupation was a humble one—that of driver of a stage-coach between Utica and Oswego. It was but two or three years before he had saved enough money from his
wages to purchase an interest in the stage-coach line of which he
was an employee; and once having placed his foot on the first steps of the ladder, he soon rose, by his business tact to be the principal proprietor of the stage-coach
lines converging to this point. At the time that railroads supplanted stages on the leading routes, Mr. Kinyon [Kenyon] was one of the most extensive owners of stage-coach
property in Central New York.
After the introduction of railroads, he continued to carry on the business of mail contractor and stage proprietor on the small lateral lines; but his business energies
were too expansive to be thus curtailed, and he soon found ampler vent for them than the _______ of his former vast carrying business afforded. Hence, when the overland
mail route to California was projected, Mr. Kinyon [Kenyon] found a field of business enterprise more commensurate with his capacities. He it was who went over the whole
route originally, and surveyed it from the eastern terminus to western California. Returning, he procured the necessary equipment for the route, and went over it again,
organizing the route as he proceeded, and remained a year in California [San Francisco], in charge of the western terminus of the road."
Marquis was responsible for the construction of the longest stagecoach trail in the United States. Which became known as the "Butterfield Tail," In 1858 the trail was
the conduit for 30,000-60,000 emigrants to aid in settling the Southwest.
The United States government advertised for bids on a contract for an "Overland Mail Service to California" on April 27, 1857. Nine bids were made and Contract No. 12,578
was awarded on September 16, 1857, to John Butterfield Sr., of Utica, NY, and ten others, including Marquis L. Kenyon.
John Butterfield Sr., was the mastermind for the choice of employees to build and manage the Overland Mail Company's infrastructure from September 16, 1857, to March 20,
1860. During this 2 1/2 years, the building of the longest stage line in the world and meeting the requirements of the government contract proved his staging genius.
After winning the contract on September 16, 1857, John Butterfield Sr. had one year to organize the trail and immediately sent his hand-picked team headed by Marquis L. Kenyon
and John Sr.'s son John Jr. to San Francisco to begin the task. The steamer "Star" left New York on November 20, 1857, with passengers (from the Evening Star, Washington D. C.,
November 23, 1857) "...Messrs. M. L. Kinyon [Kenyon], J. Butterfield [Jr.], F. De Ruyter a-nd S. K. Nellis, who go out to open the Pacific Mail Route across the plains and
arrange the western terminus of said route."
One of the eleven that signed the contract was listed in the Congressional record as "Marcus L. Kinyon." His name was misspelled in the government printing of the contract
for the public. I discovered the correct spelling of "Marquis L. Kenyon" on his tombstone in a Rome, NY, cemetery. There were many different spellings for his name and are
probably the reason that historians have had a difficult time finding information for his biography including the details for his building the trail.
The pioneering trails that were developed in the early 1800s across the western United States were first nothing more than the narrow tracks made by adventurous frontiersman
following Indian and animal trails in their quest to seek the lucrative trapping grounds of the Rocky Mountains. In the Southwest they often zigzagged from water hole to water
hole. These trails, made by their horses and mules, were not suited to wagon traffic. In 1846-47 the Mormon Battalion transformed some of these narrow trails into a wagon road.
This crude wagon road was later followed by emigrants heading to California's gold fields after the discovery in 1848. Because the availability of water along these trails was
not consistent, they varied their course through the southern corridor. Because of the drier and wetter seasons, emigrants were given instructions to travel in the wetter season.
The corridor, which became known as the Southern Overland Trail, contained many trails made at different times that crisscrossed, paralleled, and at times ran on top of each other.
In 1858 these trails were consolidated into one dominant 2,700 mile stage trail by Kenyon between Tipton, Missouri, and San Francisco, California.
The party, led by Kenyon, left San Francisco on January 16, 1858 to begin laying out of the trail and selecting the sites for stage stations. Another party left St. Louis about
the same time. Both parties were to meet at El Paso, Texas, and then return to St. Louis (The Northern Journal, Lowville, NY, May 5, 1858, "The Overland Mail Route," reprinted
from Fort Smith newspaper).
Marquis, John Jr., and the construction crew traveled from San Francisco to El Paso with one team of mules, making an average of 35 to 45 miles per day. The corridor, which
became known as the Southern Overland Trail, contained many trails made at different times that crisscrossed, paralleled, and at times ran on top of each other.
The trail went through eight States and Mexico, and in Arizona he gave New York State names to six of the twenty-six stage stations. In eastern Arizona he named one "Kenyon's
Stage Station" after himself and another, thirty-two miles to the west, "Stanwix Stage Station" after his Stanwix Hall Hotel in Rome, NY. The other stage stations in Arizona
that he gave New York State names were "Seneca," "Oneida," and "Mohawk."
In mid-1860 Marquis sold his interests and resigned his position as a director of the Overland Mail Company and retired to his home in Rome, NY, after John Butterfield Sr. was no
longer president. Even though the services of the Overland Mail Company ceased in March 1861, on the Southern Trail, because of the impending Civil War, it was so efficient
in following the best route that it remained little changed until its demise in 1880 with the completion of the railroad. For this reason to this day the Southern Overland Trail
is most commonly called "The Butterfield Trail."
70. Francis Kernan 84th New York Assembly Oneida County 1st District
Kernan was the son of Gen. William Kernan, who came to America from County Cavan, Ireland, in 1800, and Rose Anna (Stubbs) Kernan. He graduated from Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C., in 1836, then studied law, and removed to Utica, New York in 1839. He was admitted to the bar in July 1840, and then practiced law with Joshua A. Spencer.
Kernan was school commissioner of Utica, manager of the New York State Hospital, Reporter of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1857, a member of the New York State
Assembly (Oneida Co., 1st D.) in 1861, and a regent of the University of the State of New York from 1870 until his death. He was elected as a Democrat to the 38th United States
Congress, defeating the Republican boss Roscoe Conkling, and served from March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1865. In 1864, he was defeated for re-election by Conkling. In 1872, he was
the Democratic/Liberal-Republican candidate for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Republican John Adams Dix. During these times, Kernan, Roscoe Conkling and Horatio Seymour
were the heads of New York state politics, known as the "Utica trio". In January 1875, Kernan was elected a U.S. Senator from New York, the first Catholic senator from the state,
and its first Democratic senator in 24 years. He served from March 4, 1875, to March 4, 1881, alongside the Republican boss Conkling. At the 1876 Democratic National Convention in
St. Louis, U.S. Senator Kernan nominated Samuel J. Tilden for U.S. President. In January 1881, Kernan was defeated for re-election by Republican Thomas C. Platt. After Platt's
resignation in May 1881, Kernan ran again for the Senate in the following special election, but was defeated by Republican Warner Miller, the Democrats being the minority party
in that year. He numbered among his friends Abraham Lincoln, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Thomas F. Bayard, and Grover Cleveland. Both as a member of the New York Assembly
and as a U.S. Congressman, he was a "War Democrat". In 1843, Kernan married Hannah A. Devereux, daughter of Nicholas Devereux, of Utica, with whom he had ten children.[1]
Kernan's son: Francis J. Kernan Birth: May 28, 1853 Utica Oneida County New York, USA Death: Apr. 8, 1931 Syracuse Onondaga County New York, USA
71. Loammi Kinney 84th new York Assembly Cortland County
72. William R. Knapp 84th New York Assembly Rockland County
73. John Lambrecht 84th New York Assembly New York County 12th District
74. Jabez S. L'Amoreaux 84th New York Assembly Wayne County 1st District
75. Henry Lansing 84th New York Assembly Albany County 3rd District (Is this Colonel Henry S. Lansing?)
76. Samuel Lasher 84th New York Assembly Coulumbia County 1st District
77. Samuel E. Lewis 84th New York Assembly Cenango County 2nd District
78. William Lewis 84th New York Assembly Oneida County 4th District
79. Benjamin H. Long 84th New York Assembly Erie County 3rd District
80. Orrin B. Lord 84th New York Assembly Madison County 1st District
81. Lt. Colonel Robert Loughran M.D. 84th New York Assembly Ulster County 1st District
Physician and surgeon. Studied medicine in the office of Doctor Aaron Burr and Doctor William C. DeWitt, in Saugerties, New York. In 1857, he graduated from the Albany Medical
School, Albany, New York. Civil War service. Assistant surgeon and Surgeon, 20th New York State Militia. Served from 1861-1866. Was lieutenant colonel, United States Volunteers
by brevet, from March 13, 1865. Civic career. In 1860, Doctor Loughran was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, again elected in 1875. A member of the Board
of Supervisors, City of Kingston, New York from 1875-1879 and 1887-1889. Served as pension examiner. Member of the Board of Health as a Health Officer. DOCTOR ROBERT LOUGHRAN,
of the twentieth regiment, has charge of Seminary Hill hospital, at Gettysburg, one of the largest hospitals at that place. He has the sole management of this retreat for our
sick soldiers. The Loughran House, named after its builder and first owner, is a Victorian style house built between 1872 and 1873. Dr. Robert Loughran (1834-1899) was born in
Delaware County, NY to Scots-Irish parents. By 1854 he was apprenticed to Dr. Dewitt of Saugerties and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1857. Over the course of
his life and career, he became one of Kingston’s leading citizens. Dr. Loughran entered politics in 1860, being elected to the New York State Assembly. He served in the Civil
War as a surgeon in the 20th regiment of the New York State Militia from 1861-1866. Wars often advance the science of medicine due to the large scale of patients and greater
opportunities for the development of new treatments. The Civil War turned out to benefit Loughran’s individual professional development as well. In 1864 he admitted that he
“entered the organization comparatively inexperienced.” After the war, though, Loughran returned to Kingston, where he established a successful medical practice, first on Wall
Street, and later in this house. Dr. Loughran also returned to politics and served in many professional organizations. Among his many positions, he was Alderman of Kingston’s
First ward, President of the Ulster County Medical Society, Vice President of the Kingston Savings Bank, and a member of the County Board of Supervisors. In 1870 Loughran bought
the 103’ by 109’ lot on Fair Street for $2,900. Two years later he married Helen Kierstedt Schoonmaker and the couple eventually had five children. In 1872 he commissioned house
plans from noted architect J.A. Wood. Most of the structures designed by Wood are found in the Hudson Valley, but his buildings are also found in Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia,
and Cuba. Several are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Ponckhockie Union Chapel in Kingston, the Newburgh Free Library, and the Vassar Brothers
Institute in Poughkeepsie. Wood also designed the building across from the Loughran House, the former Stuyvesant Hotel, built 1910-11. The house Wood designed for Dr. Loughran
is Victorian Italianate, a style popular in the United States, especially the Northeast, from the late 1840s to about 1890. The Italianate style of Victorian Houses is so named
because of the design features influenced by the country estates of Northern Italy. As is typical with Italianate houses, the Loughran House has a simple rectangular footprint
supplemented with many ornamental details. The structure is topped with a square cupola. Other elements common to Italianate houses that are evident in the Loughran House are a
low pitched roof, an elaborate cornice supported by paired decorative brackets, a circular window near the roof line, and tall, narrow windows, particularly those with rounded tops.
Also note the columned porch, turned balusters, and a striking double-door entrance, which is a masterpiece in its own right. Upon entering the house, notice an elegant chandelier,
a beautiful curved staircase and other ornate details, such as intricate moldings and carvings along the staircase, which define Italianate houses. In 1932 W.N. Conner’s Funeral
Home began using the Loughran House as offices, and the building remained a funeral home until 1965. The New York State Historic Trust acquired the house in 1968 for $98,000.
The building is now part of Senate House State Historic Site, and is used for offices and changing exhibits, and is the site for Victorian Teas hosted by the Friends of Senate House.
82. Major William J. McDermott M.D. 84th New York Assembly Westchester County 1st District
New York University, 1854, Surgeon in the Army during the Civil War; who was with Colonel Ellsworth when he was shot at Alexandria, VA, aided in the amputation of the arm of
General O.O. Howard, and was a prisoner in Libby Prison; a personal friend of presidents Lincoln and Grant, died at his home in New York City, March 12, after a lingering illness,
aged 73. Served with New York regiments throughout all 4 years of the war and was breveted to Major.
83. Henry McFadden 84th New York Assembly Clinton County
84. Alonzo Macomber 84th New York Assembly Schenectady County
85. John Markell 84th New York Assembly 1st District
86. Levi T. Marshall 84th New York Assembly Oneida County 2nd District
87. Lucius S. May 84th New York Assembly Allegany County 2nd District
88. Abram V. Mekeel 84th New York Assembly Schuyler County
89. Brigadier General Edwin Atkins Merritt 84th New york Assembly St. Lawrence County 2nd District
He was the son of Nodiah Merritt and Relief (Parker) Merritt. He was a member from St. Lawrence County of the New York State Assembly (St. Lawrence Co., 2nd D.) in 1860 and 1861.
He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Merritt was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867-68. in 1875, he ran on the Republican ticket
for New York State Treasurer, but was defeated by Democrat Charles N. Ross. Merritt was Collector of the Port of New York from 1878 to 1881, appointed as a part of President
Rutherford B. Hayes's attempt to reform the civil service there. Merritt served as U.S. Consul General in London from 1882 to 1885. Returning to New York, he served as President of
the Board of trustees of St. Lawrence University for several years. His son Edwin Albert Merritt was a Congressman from New York. Military and Political Leader. He was raised and
educated in Essex County, New York and became a teacher, surveyor, and engineer. From 1854 to 1857 he was Pierepont Town Supervisor, and from 1857 to 1860 he was Clerk of the St. Lawrence
County Board of Supervisors. Merritt served in the New York Assembly from 1860 to 1861. During the Civil War he was Quartermaster of the Sixtieth New York Infantry with the rank of Captain,
and took part in campaigns in Virginia, Maryland and Tennessee. He was later stationed in Washington and assigned to supply reinforcements departing for the front lines. In January, 1865
he was appointed Quartermaster General of the New York Militia with the rank of Brigadier General, an position he held until 1869, and in April of that year he was New York's official
representative at Lincoln's second inaugural. Merritt was a Delegate to the 1867 state constitutional convention, and from 1869 to 1871 he was US Naval Officer for the Port of New York.
In 1871 he declined appointment as US Minister to Brazil. In 1875 he was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for State Treasurer. In 1877 he was appointed Surveyor of the Port of New York,
and in 1879 he was selected to serve as the port's US Collector of Customs, holding office until 1881. That year he was appointed US Consul General in London, a post he held until 1885.
Long interested in higher education, he was a Trustee of St. Lawrence University and Clarkson College, and played a key role in establishing what is now the State University of New York at
Potsdam. General Merritt was the father of Congressman Edwin A. Merritt, Jr.
90. David Montague 84th new York Assembly Jefferson County 1st District
91. Marquis D. Moore 84th New York Assembly Kings County 2nd District
92. Lewis Henry Morgan 84th New York Assembly Monroe County 2nd District
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93. Austin Myers 84th New York Assembly Onondaga County 2nd District
94. Joseph Nesbitt 84th New York Assembly Kings County 6th District
95. Nelson I. Norton 84th New York Assembly Cattaraugus County 1st District
Born near Salamanca, in Great Valley, New York, Norton received a limited education and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Supervisor of Cattaraugus County in 1860 and 1865–1867,
Norton was a Justice of the Peace from 1852 to 1870. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Cattaraugus Co., 1st D.) in 1861 and 1862. Norton was elected as a Republican
to the 44th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Augustus F. Allen, holding office from December 6, 1875 to March 3, 1877. Afterwards
he resumed agricultural pursuits. Norton died on October 28, 1887 (age 67 years, 7 months, and 28 days). He is interred at the Hinsdale Cemetery, Hinsdale, New York.
96. N. Holmes O'Dell 84th New York Assembly Westchester County 2nd District a banker and congressman.
97. Franklin Philbrick 84th New york Assembly Cattaraugus County 2nd District
98. George T. Pierce 84th New york Assembly Ulster County 2nd District
He graduated from Yale College in 1843, and then studied law at Harvard Law School for a year. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Dutchess Co.) in 1846. Afterwards he
removed to a farm in Esopus, in Ulster County. He was a member of the New York State Senate (10th D.) in 1852 and 1853. He was a member of the Barnburner faction of the Democratic
Party, and joined the Republican Party upon its foundation. He was again a member of the State Assembly (Ulster Co., 2nd D.) in 1861 and 1862. He was one of the charter trustees of
Vassar College, established in 1861, and remained on the board until 1868.
99. Henry A. Prendergast 84th New York Assembly Chautauqua County 1st District
100. Martin Roberts 84th New York Assembly Monroe County 1st District
101. Lucius Robinson 84th New York Assembly Chemung County
Lucius Robinson (November 4, 1810, Windham, Greene County, New York – March 23, 1891, Elmira, Chemung County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 26th
Governor of New York from 1877 to 1879. He graduated from Delaware Academy in Delhi, New York. Afterwards he studied law in the offices of Erastus Root and Amasa J. Parker, was
admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice in Catskill, N.Y. He was District Attorney of Greene County from 1837 to 1840. Then he removed to New York City and became a
member of Tammany Hall. He joined the Republican Party when it was founded, and was a member of the New York State Assembly (Chemung Co.) in 1860 and 1861. He was New York State
Comptroller from 1862 to 1865. In 1861, he was elected on the Union ticket nominated by Republicans and War Democrats. In 1863 he was defeated for re-nomination at the Union state
convention, but the nominated candidadte refused to run, and the Republican State Committee put Robinson back on the ticket, and he was re-elected. After the war he joined the
Democratic Party again, and was re-nominated for Comptroller on the Democratic ticket, but this time was defeated by the Republican candidate Thomas Hillhouse. After his defeat
he resumed the practice of law. In 1871-72 he was a member of the New York State Constitutional Commission. He was a director of the Erie Railroad, and was Acting President of the
company while the President Peter H. Watson was travelling about Europe. In 1875, he was again elected State Comptroller defeating the Republican candidate, former United States
Treasurer Francis E. Spinner. While serving as Comptroller, he was elected Governor, and was in office from 1877 to 1879, the first governor to serve a three-year term after the
amendment to the state constitution in 1874. As governor, he opposed Tammany Hall vigorously, which led the Tammany leader John Kelly to have himself nominated for Governor by Tammany
Hall at the next election in 1879 with the intention to split the Democratic vote, and so defeat Robinson. This happened, and the Republican candidate Alonzo B. Cornell was elected
Governor with less votes than Robinson and Kelly together. Robinson was a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention and supported Samuel J. Tilden for President.
He died from pneumonia, and was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira.
102. Mason Salisbury 84th New York Assembly Oswego County 3rd District
103. Richard K. Sanford 84th New York Assembly Oswego County 2nd District
He was the son of Kingsbury E. Sanford. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1843. Then he taught school, and was in charge of Middlebury Academy and other schools, until 1855. In 1848,
he married Lucy A. Carrier (d. 1859), and they had two children. In 1856, he became the owner and editor of the Fulton Patriot and Gazette. He was a member of the New York State Assembly
(Oswego Co., 2nd D.) in 1861; of the New York State Senate (21st D.) in 1862 and 1863; and again of the State Assembly in 1865. He was for 25 years a clerk in the Auditor's office of the
New York Customs House, and died of "apoplexy" at his home at 394 State Street, in Brooklyn.
104. Charles J. Saxe 84th New York Assembly Rensselaer County 1st District
105. Oliver P. Scovell 84th New York Assembly Niagra County 2nd District
106. John J. Shaw 84th New York Assembly New York County 5th District Engineer of the 79th New York Volunteer Infantry
107. Colonel Gilbert Sherer 84th New york Assembly Yates County
Came as a boy in 1815 to Potter, Yates County, New York with Captain Reuben Carr and his family.Lived on a farm near Potter Center.Was supervisor of town of Potter in 1844 - 1845.
Member of Assembly in 1860. Postmaster of Penn Yan in 1861. Colonel of 103rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
108. Horatio N. Sherwood 84th New York Assembly New york County 9th District
109. Josiah Shull 84th New York Assembly Herkimer County 2nd District
110. Seymour E. Smith 84th New York Assembly Delaware County 1st District
111. Major Henry P. Smith 84th New York Assembly Niagra County 1st District 93rd New York Infantry
112. Jeffrey Smith 84th new York Assembly Steuben County 2nd District
113. Captain Hiram Smith 84th New York Assembly Chautauqua County 2nd District 140th Infantry Regiment
August 8, 1862, Capt. Hiram Smith received authority to recruit this regiment; it was organized at Rochester with Patrick H. O'Rorke as Colonel, and there mustered in the service of
the United States for three years September 13, 1862. June 26, 1863, the three years' men of the13th Infantry, and October 6, 1864, the members of the 44th Infantry, not mustered out
with their regiments, were transferred to it. June 3, 1865, the men not to be mustered out with it were transferred to the 5th Veteran Infantry.
114. James Sumner Jr. 84th New York Assembly Saratoga County 2nd District
115. Stephen Taber 84th New York Assembly Queens County 1st District
Stephen Taber (March 7, 1821 – April 23, 1886) was a United States Congress Representative from New York from 1865 to 1869.
He was the son of Thomas Taber II; born in Dover, New York, March 7, 1821; completed preparatory studies; moved to Queens, New York and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of
the New York State Assembly (Queens Co., 1st D.) in 1860 and 1861; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1869); assisted in
organizing the Long Island North Shore Transportation Co. in 1861 and served as its president for several years; director of the Long Island Rail Road Co.; became the first president
of the Roslyn Savings Bank in 1876 and served in this capacity for a number of years; died in New York City on April 23, 1886; interment in Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y.
116. James H. Tuthill 84th New York Assembly Suffolk County 1st District
117. John D. Townsend 84th New York Assembly Queens County 2nd District
118. Benjamin Turner Jr. 84th New York Assembly Ulster County 3rd District
119. George W. Varian 84th New York Assembly New York County 15th District
120. David J. Wager 84th New York Assembly Jefferson County 2nd District
121. Daniel Waterbury 84th New York Assembly Delaware County 2nd District
122. William Walsh 84th New York Assembly New York County 2nd District
123. Stephen V.R. Watson 84th New York Assembly Erie County 1st District
124. Samuel T. Webster 84th New York Assembly New York County 6th District
125. Benjamin R. Wells 84th New York Assembly Monroe County 3rd District
126. Matthew Wiard 84th New York Assembly Livingston County 1st District
127. William J. Wheeler 84th New York Assembly Albany County 4th District
128. Christian B. Woodruff 84th New York Assembly New York County 3rd District
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 3rd D.) in 1859, 1860 and 1861.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) from 1862 to 1865, sitting in the 85th, 86th, 87th and 88th New York State Legislatures.
On May 5, 1864, Woodruff was appointed by New York City Comptroller Matthew T. Brennan to the Board of Tax Commissioners. The incumbent commissioners
refused to go out of office, and the imbroglio was taken through the courts for a few months.
129. George W. Wright 84th New York Assembly Genesee County
130. Daniel Young 84th New York Assembly New York County 7th District
131. Hanson A. Risley CLERK 84th New York Assembly
With time, the cotton trade was somewhat institutionalized by the Lincoln Administration. Historian Philip Van Doren Stern wrote: “Cotton and tobacco were the chief commercial
assets of the Confederacy. Trading in the North in these materials was not always contraband; much of it was legal under the Captured and Abandoned Property Act of March 3, 1863.
As defined by the United States Government, ‘captured’ property meant any goods taken by force of arms which were not of a military nature, such as cotton or tobacco. ‘Abandoned’
property was defined as anything belonging to a person who was absent while ‘aiding or encouraging the rebellion.’ The Treasury Department was authorized to handle trading in all
seized property, and special Treasury agents were appointed to issue trading permits to individuals or companies. In charge of this large corps of men was Hanson A. Risley,
Supervising Special Agent of the Treasury Department, whose rulings soon became law on all such permits, although each one had to be personally approved and signed by the President.”
132. Major Charles M. Scholefield 84th New York Assembly Served in Civil War from 1861 - 1856
133. R.U. Owens LIBRARIAN 84th New York Assembly
134. Charles D. Easton SERGEANT-AT-ARMS 84th New York Assembly
135. Thomas Miller
136. Charles Horton
137. Hiram Calkins
138. William Martin Gillespie
139. J.F. Cleveland
