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1848.1 -- Amos K. Hadley, ? George T. Denison, George W. Glass. 1819 .- Amos K. Hadley, Benajah Allen, William Il. Budd. 1850 .- George Lesley, Edward P. Pickett, Lansing Sheldon.
1851 .- George Lesley, William Russell, Oliver C. Thompson.
1852 .- Jonas C. Heartt, " Albert E. Richmond, William II. Herriek.
1853 .- Jason C. Osgood, Charles B. Stratton, Peter G. Ten Eyck.
1854 .- Jonathan Edwards, Lyman Wilder, George Brust.
' Under the constitution of 1816 the county was divided into districts, from each of which one member of Assembly was elected. The names of the members given after the above date are arranged to correspond with the districts in their numerical order.
2 Also speaker of the Assembly. 3 Also peaker.
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LANDMARKS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY.
1855 .- Jonathan Edwards, Nicholas M. Masters, Edmund Cole.
1856 .- George Van Santvoord, Augustus Jolinson, Sanford A. Tracy.
1857 .- Darius Allen, Volney Richmond, Ebenezer S. Strait.
1858 .- J. C. Osgood, Daniel Fish, Martin Miller.
1859 .- Thomas Coleman, Henry B. Clark, Anson Bingham. 1860 .- Thomas Coleman, James Culver, Anson Bingham.
1861 .- Charles J. Saxe, L. Chandler Ball, Anson Bingham.
1862 .- Charles J. Saxe, David G. Maxon, Sylvester Waterbury. 1863 .- James MeKeon, John A. Quackenbush, Ebenezer S. Strait.
1864. - James McKeon, George W. Banker, James Dearstyne. 1865 .- George C. Burdett, Robert M. Hasbrouck, Matthew V. A. Fonda. 1866 .- James S. Thorn, Marshall F. White, Eleazer Wooster. 1867 .- William Gurley, Marshall F. White, Eleazer Wooster. 1868 .- John L. Flagg, Jared A. Wells, Harris B. Howard. 1869 .- John L. Flagg, Edward Akin, Harris B. Howard. 1870 .- John L. Flagg, Eugene Hyatt, J. Thomas Davis. 1871 .- John 1. Flagg, Horace C. Gifford, Sylvester Waterbury. 1872 .- Jason C. Osgood, John L. Snyder, Castle W. Herrick. 1873 .- William V. Cleary, John L. Snyder, Castle W. Herrick. 1894 .- William V. Cleary, Robert Dickson, Jacob M. Whitbeck. 1875. -- William V. Cleary, William F. Taylor, Jacob M. Whitbeck. 1896 .- William V. Cleary, William F. Taylor, Thomas B. Simmons. 1877. -- John HI. Burns, John J. Filkin, Wilham HI. Sliter. 1828 .- John II. Burns, Solomon V. R. Miller, William Il. Sliter. 1879 .- Francis N. Mann, Jr., Eh Perry, Thomas B. Simmons.
1880 .- La Mott W. Rhodes, Albert C. Comstock, Barnis C. Strait. 1881 .- Charles E. Patterson, Richard A. Derrick, Barnis C. Strait.
1882 .- Charles E. Patterson, ' Richard A. Derrick, Rufus Sweet 1883 .- William V. Cleary, Richard A. Derrick, Rufus Sweet. 1881 .- James P. Hooley, Sylvanus D. Locke, William T. Mills. 1885 .- James P. Hooley. Eugene L. Deniers, Charles C. L.lewick.
Michael F. Collins, Eugene 1 .. Demers. Thomas Dich son 1857. Michael F. Collins, J. Irving Baucus, James Ryan, jr. 1888. - George O'Neil, J. Irving Bancus, James Ryan, jr. 1889 .- George O'Neil, Joseph S. Saunders, James Ryan, jr. 1890 .-- James M. Riley, Joseph S. Saunders, John W. Mcknight. 1891 .- James M. Riley, Levi E. Worden, John W. MeKnight. 1892 .- James M. Riley, Levi E. Worden, John J. Cassin. 1893 .- William M. Keenan, John M. Chambers, John J. Cassin 1894 .- William M. Keenan, John M. Chambers, John J. Cassin. 1895 .- John T. Norton, John M. Chambers, John J. Cassin. 1896 .- John T. Norton, Edward McGraw, George Anderson.
STATE SENATORS FROM RENSSELAER COUNTY .- 1793-1790, Robert Woodworth; 1797-1998, Moses Vail; 1999-1802, Ebenezer Foote; 1802, Christopher Hutton; 1804- 1807, John Woodworth; 1808-1811, Charles Selden ; 1812-1815, Ruggles Hubbard;
I Also speaker of the assembly ..
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SENATORS FROM THE COUNTY.
1815-1818. George Tibbits; 1820-1822, Thomas Frothingham; 1834-1836, John C. Kemble; 1841-1844, Henry W. Strong; 1846-1847, W. H. Van Schoonhoven; 1848- 18-19, Albert R. Fox; 1850 185!, Thomas B. Carroll; 1852 - 1853, W. 11. Van Schoon- hoven ; 1854-6855, Elisha N. Pratt; 1856-1857, Amos Briggs; 1858-1859, John D. Willard; 1860-1864, Volney Richmond; 1864-1865, Frederick Il. Hastings; 1868- 1871, Francis S. Thayer; 1874-1875, Roswell A. Parmenter; 1896-1877, Thomas Coleman; 1880-1881, Isaac V. Baker, jr. ; 1882-1883, Charles L. MacArthur; 1884- 1887, Albert C. Comstock ; 1888-1895, Michael F. Collins; 1896- - , Le Grand C. Tibbits.
Following is a statement of the several incorporated companies liable to taxation in Rensselaer county in the year 1896:
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City and Towns.
Fines of Corporations.
Assessed value of personal prop- erty subject to local taxation for all purpose>.
Assessed value of Real Estate.
Total Valuation.
Troy
Central National Bank of Troy
$206,852 00
$13.000 00
8219,852 00
National Bank of Troy .
162.000 00
1
38,000 00
200,000 00
Mutual National Bank of Troy
352.985 88
35,000 00
387.985 88
Manufacturers' National Bank of Troy
141,621 00
SS,500 00
230,121 00
National State Bank of Troy
430,431 25
20,000 00
450.431 25
Troy City National Bank
449.379 30
35,000 00
484.319 30
Troy Savings Bank.
465,000 00
465,000 00
United Nationa: Bank of Troy
448.984 44
60,000 00
505,984 44
Union National Bank of Troy.
259.78- 60
60,000 00
349,785 60
..
Troy Laundry Machinery Company
20,000 00
11,000 00
$1.000 00
..
Wiles Laundry Machinery Company, limited
25,000 00
35,500 00
35,500 00
Hudson River Railroad Corporation
383.980 00
383.980 00
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Laureate Boat Club
6,500 00
6,500 00
Ionie Club
15,000 00
15,000 00
National Express Company_
13,500 00
13,500 00
..
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad Company
120,000 00
120,000 00
Troy Union Railroad Company
30 000 00
30,000 00
Fitchburg Railroad Company.
222,200 00
002.200 00
Troy City Railroad Company
190.071 00
190,021 00
..
Troy Citizens' Steamboat Company
50,000 00
460,000 00
460,000 00
Eastside Club ..
12,000 00
12,000 00
..
Rob Roy Hosiery Company.
10,000 00
27.000 00
37,000 00
..
Troy and West Troy Bridge Company
125,000 00
125,000 00
..
Troy Steel and Iron Company
624,350 00
624,350 00
Trustees of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
2.400 00
2.400 00
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Trustees of Fathe- Matthew T. A. B. Society ...
4.000 00
4.000 00
..
Trustees of United Presbyterian Congregation ..
5,500 00
5,800 00
Trustees of North Baptist Church .
7.700 00
7,200 00
..
Trustees of Woodside Presbyterian Church
2,500 00
2,500 00
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Trustees of St. Paul's Church
18,000 00
18,000 00
Trustees of St. Mary's Church
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11,200 00
11.200 00
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50,000 00
Troy Gas Company.
50,000 00
50,000 00
Troy Club
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Trustees of Levings' Chapel .
800 00
$00 00
. .
Wayside Knitting Company
25.000 00
..
LANDMARKS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY.
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Wilbur Shirt and Collar Co.
10,000 00
10.000 00
1 4
Trustees of Ninth Presbyterian Church
2.700 00
2,700 00
Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church
3.000 00
3.000 00
1 4
Trustees of Fifth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church ..
4,300 00
4.300 00
Trustees of St. Francis' Church
100 00
100 00
10.000 00
10,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
State Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
9.000 00
9,000 00
American Distric: Tel Company
$5 000 00
15,000 00
15,000 00
Meneely Bell Company ...
2,000 00
7,000 00
Fuller & Warren Company
10,000 00
214.880 00
224.880 00
Burden Iron Company.
549.134 00
1.007,670 00
1.556.804 00
The J. M. Warren Company-
40,000 00
112,000 00
152,000 00
McLeod &-Henry Company
29.000 00
29,000 00
A. M. Church Company, limited
25,000 00
25,000 00
14
Morrison & Westfall Co.
10,000 00
10,000 00
4 4
Barnum Bros. Company
5.000 00
5.000 00
3,500 00
3.500 00
10.000 00
10,000 00
..
Wiles Laundry Company-
6.200 00
6,200 00
Troy Irving Building Compauy
17.000 00
17,000 00
Troy Waste Manufacturing Company
40,000 00
40,000 00
A. & A Quandt Brewing Company
50,000 00
70 000 00
Burdett, Smith & Company.
45.100 00
: 45.100 00
20,000 00
20,000 00
4 4
Wynantskill Knitting Company
63.850 00
1.909 00
65.759 00
Germania Hall Association
16.000 00
16,000 00
..
St. Luke's Church. Standard Car Coupling Company
10,000 00
10,000 CO
4
Trustees St. Michael's Church
2,000 00
2,000 00
National Machine Company
12,000 00
12.000 00
Trojan Button Fastener Company.
10,000 00
10,000 00
United Shirt and Collar Co
50,000 00
33.000 00
82,000 00
4 4
Trustees of St. John's Church.
19,000 00
19,000 00
Trustees of St. Patrick's Church
4,050 00
4,050 00
4.200 00 !
4,200 00
Trustees of St. Jean's Church_
$3.900 00
$3,900 00
Troy
Trustees of St. Peter's Church
CORPORATIONS IN THE COUNTY.
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Troy Malleable Iron Company
2,500 00
2,500 00
American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Troy Belting and Supply Company.
12 500 60
12,500 00
1
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1
First Presbyterian Church.
14
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Western Union Telegraph Company. consolidated
5,000 00
Troy Telephone and Telegraph Company
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First Baptist Church.
20,000 00
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City and Towns.
Names of Corporations.
Assessed value of personal prop- erty subject to local taxation for ali purposes.
Assessed Value of Real Estate.
Total Valuation.
Trov
Cleminshaw Bowling Co.
$10,000 00
$10,000 00
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Ostrander, tire Brick Co.
$38,100 00
38,100 00
Boutwell Milling and Grain Company
16,000 00
35,500 00
48,500 00
'Adams Laund: . Machinery Company
2.500 00
2,500 00
Hartwell & Bain bridge Company.
5.000 00
5,000 00
..
Troy Public Works Company.
5,000 00
5.000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
10,000 00
10,000 00
45,000 00
45,000 00
. .
St. Lawrence Charch
4,400 00
4.400 00
Stoll Brewing Company
40.000 00
40,000 00
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
12.500 00
12,500 00
Baker Red Slate Company.
2,000 00
2,000 00
Hart Manufacturing Company.
3.000 00
3,000 00
Lansingburgh
Sans Souci Club
3,000 00
3,000 00
Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Company
50,000 00
65,000 00
115,000 00
Citizens' Gas Company-
17.100 00
17.700 00
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St. Augustine Society.
15,700 00
15.200 00
Troy City Railroad Company
110,500 00
110,500 00
Fitchburg Railroad Company
115.000 00
115.000 (0
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Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church
2.500 00
2,500 00
..
Trustees of Trinity Church
2.500 00
2,500 00
600 00
600 00
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Cohoes and Lansingburgh Bridge Company
40,000 00
40.000 00
..
Western Union Telegraph Company.
1.400 00
1,400 00
..
American Telephone and Telegraph Company ..
2,000 00
2.000 00
3.000 00
3,000 00
17,500 00
52,500 00
Empire Portable Forge Co.
5,000 00
10,000 00
15,000 00
Troy Yacht Club,
1.500 00
4,500 00
..
Union Electric Light Company.
200 00
200 00
United Shirt and Collar Company
31.300 00
31,300 00
..
Union Bridge Company-
150 00
150 00
..
Riverside Club ..
15,500 00
15,500 00
Postal Telegraph Company-
100 00
100 00
LANDMARKS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY.
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Troy Telephone and Telegraph Company. People's Bank
25.000 00
1
Trustees of Olive: Church_
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E. G. Bernard Company.
John A. Robinson Company
International shirt and Collar Company
151
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Western Union Telegraph Company
1,300 00 |
1,800 00
.
4 .
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630 00
630 00
..
Postal Union Telegraph Company ..
765 00
765 00
Pittstown
Fitchburg R. R. Company, Troy and Boston Div.
144,000 00
144,000 00
American Axe Manufacturing Company
21,600 00
21,600 00
Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad Company_
4.500 00
4.500 00
Fitchburg K. R Co., Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Western Division
133,350 00
133.380 00
Hudson River Telephone Company ..
490 00
490 00
Commercial Union and Postal Telegraph
244 00
244 00
Hoosick
b Lebanon Spring- Railroad Company
16.803 00
16.803 00
c Fitchburg Railroad Company, T. & B. Division_
281.478 75
281.478 75
d Rutland and Washington Railroad Company ..
6,000 00
6,000 00
Hoosick Falls Gas Company.
12,000 00
12.000 00
Walter A. Wood Reaping Machine Company
180.900 00
$50,900 00
..
. Fitchburg Raffroad Company, B., H. T. & West- ern Division.
210.960 00
210.960 00
f Western Union Telegraph Company
2.655 28
2.655 28
..
Hoosick Falls Water Works Company
25.000 00
25,000 00
g Commercial Union Tel. Company.
$45 00
S4 00
h N. Y. and Vermont Telephone Company.
950 00
950 00
Hoosick Falls Kitting Company.
6.000 00
4.000 00
10.000 00
First National Bank
40,800 00
40,800 00
i Hoosick Falls Electric Light Company.
16.000 00
16,0 0 00
Pruyn Manufacturing Company.
3,000 00
3 000 00
¿ Hoosick Falls Electric Railway Company.
15,000 00
15,000 00
Hoosick Falls Brewing Company.
2,500 00
2 500 00
Petersburgh.
/ Fitchburg Railroad Company. T. & B. Div.
45,750 00
45,750 00
Fitchburg Railroad Company. B., HI. T. & W Division
42,480 00 1
42.480 00
..
Deborah Powers Home for Old Ladies
4.000 00
4,000 00
..
Grant Ferris Company.
: 3.936 00
3.936 00
Schaghticoke .
Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad Company.
12,000 00
12,000 00
a Fitchburg Raffroad Company.
233,520 00
233.820 00
..
Cable Flax Mill- Company
43.000 00
43,000 00
..
Western Union Telegraph Company
1.630 00
1,630 00
Schaghticoke Wooten Company-
51,100 00
51,100 00
Schaghticoke Powder Company-
51,550 00
51,550 00
Hudson River Cephone Company
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CORPORATIONS IN THE COUNTY.
Lansingburgh
Danish Society.
$4,000 00
$4,000 00
2,000 00
2 000 00
Leonard Hospita ..
-
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8570.000 00
..
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LANDMARKS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY.
City and Towns.
Names of Corporations.
-Assessed value of personal prop- erty subject to loeal taxation for all purposes.
Assessed Value of Real Estate.
Total Valuation.
Petersburgh
Lebanon Springs Railroad Company.
$8.500 00
84.500 00
3,000 00
3,000 00
Nassau
Lebanon Spring: Railroad Company
40) 00
400 00
..
Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Company
300 00
300 00
4,000 00
4,000 00
North Greenbush
Hudson River Bridge Company at Albany
120.000 00
120,000 00
120,000 00
120,000 00
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Troy Steel and Iron Company.
12,000 00
12,000 00
..
Greenbush Water Works Company ..
20,000 00
20,000 00
..
American Telegraph and Telephone Company. Burden Iron Company ..
31.850 00
31.550 00
4,000 00
4,000 00
Homestead Savings and Building Loan Asso ...
800 00
800 00
..
East Albany Gaslight Company.
500 00
500 00
Troy Industrial Building and Loan Association.
1,000 00
1,000 00
Grafton
/ American Telegraph and Telephone Company
2,500 00
2,500 00
Greenbush
Boston and Albany Railroad Corporation
473,600 00
473,600 00
Hudson River Railroad Corporation
306,450 00
306.450 00
Hudson River Bridge Company (North).
123,600 00
123,600 00
..
Hudson River Bridge Company (South).
350,000 00
350,000 00
..
American Long Distance Tel. Company.
1.825 00
1,825 00
Hudson River Bridge Company (Creek Bridge).
100,000 00
100,000 00
Commercial Tel. Company
1,000 00
1,000 00
..
Troy and Greenbush Railroad Corporation
21,900 00
21,900 00
Commercial Union Telegraph Company
600 00
600 00
Greenbush and Albany Bridge Company
163,800 00
163.800 00
26,000 00
26.000 00
..
Western Union Tel. Company
2.025 00
2,025 00
850 00
850 00
East Albany Gas Light Company
13,300 00
13,300 00
1
Post 400 G. A. R. ..
600 00
600 00
East Greenbush
Boston and Albany Railroad Corporation
137.000 00
131.000 00
'n Hudson River Railroad Corporation
143.000 00
143 000 00
. American Union Telegraph Company
300 00
300 00
..
IN. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. Co
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m Greenbush Water Works Company
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Western Union Telegraph Company
1,300 00
1,300 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
:Wynantskill Improvement Association.
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Troy and Greenbush Railroad Corporation
American Telephone Company.
[Bankers and Merchants Tel. Company .
DERICK L. BOARDMAN.
East Greenbush ....
Western Union Telegraph Company-
$1,800 00
$1.300 00
Mutual Union Telegraph Company.
1,200 00
1,200 00
American Rapid Tel. Company
400 00
400 00
300 00
300 00
20
Commercial Union. and Postal Telegraph Comp'y
1.200 00
1.200 00
:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company ..
1,200 00
1,200 00
Schodack
Boston and Alban : Railroad Corporation
456,741 00
456.741 00
Hudson River Rafroad Corporation ..
342,000 00
342,000 00
National Bank, Castleton
$$5.000 00
2,800 00
17,800 00
..
Knickerbocker lee Company.
31,000 00
31,000 00
..
Commercial Union and Postal Telegraph Co.
1,600 00
1.600 00
10,600 00
10,600 00
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
1,500 00
1,500 00
..
g Hudson River Telephone Company-
5,000 00
5,000 00
.
Fort Orange Paper Company
40.000 00
40,000 00
Stephentown
" Lebanon Spring Railroad Company -
500 00
500 00
Beriin
't Lebanon Spring: Railroad Company_
25,000 00
25,000 00
..
Western Union Telegraph Company
50 00
50 00
Brunswick
Hudson River Telephone Company
150 00
150 00
Brunswick Telephone Company ..
100 00
100 00
Commercial Telephone Company
350 00
350 00
Sandlake
Wynantskill Improvement Association.
10,400 00
10,400 00
Troy Tel. and Tel. Company
250 00
250 00
Commercial Union Postal and Telegraph Co.
300 00
300 00
Total
84,238.826 47
$10 285.291 03
$14.524.117 50
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24,000 00
24,000 00
s Western Union Telegraph Company.
470 00
470 00
Berlin Water Supply Company
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a Troy Div. $704.91. B., H. & T. 81.215:35: 4 -17.04 highway labor; 6 8260.35 arrearage. highway; 7/ 86.30 arrearage. highway: ( $18.24 ar- rearage, highway; / 82.77 arrearage. highway: ~ ~ de. arrearage, highway labor: // Site arrearage. highway labor: > >10.50 arrearage. highway labor; j 83.45 arrearage, highway labor: / :35 " arrearage, highway labor; / highway $15.00, school $19.22: m arrears school $$3.60; n filc. rm .; ( includes school $4.61; A includes school Que: y meludes school Me; r includes !Me. highway. $10.64 school; s includes Ic. school; / includes school $43.52; z includes roads ;5c., school $1.90. @ includes $9.15 road machine.
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CORPORATIONS IN THE COUNTY.
o Western Union Telegraph Company_
1,200 00
1,200 00
Oak Grove Mills.
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u American Telegraph and Telephone Company
2,750 00
2,750 00
Hudson River Telephone Company
154
LANDMARKS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY.
CHAPTER XL.
BENCH AND BAR OF RENSSELAER COUNTY. REVISED BY HION. MARTIN I. TOWNSEND.
The legal profession is venerable with age and illustrious with honor. Every civilized nation, every state has produced lawyers of renown, some for their profound learning in legal lore, some for their brilliancy in oratory; some both for great knowledge and masterful eloquence. It may truthfully be said of the bar of Rensselaer county that its repre- sentatives have attained prominence in all these spheres. It has sent to the bench of the Supreme Court some of the most profoundly learned and wisest judges; and it has produced some of the most clo- quent pleaders who ever stood before the bar of justice in this county.
'The history of the bench and bar of Rensselaer county dates back to the earliest days of the county. In an address delivered by the Hon. Martin I. Townsend, on the occasion of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the naming of the city of Troy, held in that city in January, 1889, that distinguished lawyer said :
Troy was a mere hamlet at the beginning of the nineteenth century, although her . population was steadily growing and the intellectual fibre of her lawyers strengthen- ing and preparing to vindicate in the third decade their right to take rank with the foremost minds in the State. Before 1520 John Woodworth had been called to Albany to fill the office of attorney-general, and at about that time William 1. Marcy was also called there to fill the position of adjutant-general.
Under the constitution of 1821, which continued in force until 1847, John Wood- worth and William L. Marcy were justices of the Supreme Court, then the only court of review below the court for the correction of errors. John P. Cushman and Nathan Williams, who had studied law and commenced its practice here, but who had removed to Utica, held the office of circuit judge under the same constitution. William L. Marcy was also United States senator, governor of the State, secretary of war and secretary of state. Under the constitution of 1817 George Gould and Charles R. Ingalls have been justices of the Supreme Court.
The first judges of our Court of Common Pleas under the constitution of 1821 were David Buel, jr., from 1825 to 1828; Ilerman Knickerbocker from 1828 to 1838, and George R. Davis from 1838 until the constitution of 1847 took effect. Isaac MeConihe, Archibald Bull, Francis N. Mann and Jeremiah Romeyn were judges of that court.
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THE BENCH AND BAR.
The judges of our Court of Common Pleas before the constitution of 1821 were Anthony Ten Eyck, Robert Woodworth, James L. Hogeboom and Josiah Masters.
Our county judges since 186; have been Charles C. Parmele, Archibald Bull, Jere- miah Romeyn, Gilbert Robertson, jr., E. Smith Strait, James Forsyth and the pres- ent incumbent, Judge Edgar L. Fursman. The surrogates of the county have been Moss Kent, John Woodworth, Jeremiah Osborne, David Allen, William McManus, Thomas Clowes, Philip Viele, Job Pierson, Cornelius L. Tracy, Stephen Reynolds, George T. Blair, Robert HI. Mcclellan, E. Smith Strait, Moses Warren and William Lord, the present incumbent.
'The legal profession of Troy has furnished the following members of Congress: Moss Kent, John Bird, John P. Cushman, William MeManus, John D. Dickinson, Job Pierson, Hiram P. Hunt, David L. Seymour, Abram B. Olin and Martin I. Townsend. Of State senators the lawyers of our city have furnished the following: Moss Kent, Robert Woodworth, John Woodworth, Henry W. Strong, Ruggles lub- bard, John D. Willard, William 11. Van Schoonhoven, Roswell A. Parmenter, and we probably have the right to include amongst us the Hon. Albert C. Comstock, who has recently filled that position. Our profession has farmshed the following ment- bers of assembly: John Bird, John Woodworth, Robert Woodworth, George R. Davis, Archibald Bull, David L. Seymour, William 11. Van Schoonhoven, Henry %. Hayner, Amos K. Hadley, George Van Santvoord, John L. Flagg, Francis N. Mann, jr., La Mott W. Rhodes and Charles E. Patterson. Of these George R. Davis was three times speaker, and Amos K. Hadley and Charles E. Patterson once cach. The Hon. Miles Beach is a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of New York. The Hon. Abram B. Olin was for many years judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and Henry Z. Hayner was chief justice of the territory of Minnesota from its organization until its admission as a State.
In his review of the life, services and characteristics of the Hon. David 12. Seymour, one of the lawyers of the county who stood in the fore front of his profession, Mr. Townsend said:
His birthplace was Wethersfield, in the State of Connecticut. lle pur- sied a full course of study at Vale college, and graduated with high honor in the class of 1526. In 1830 be removed to Troy and commenced the practice of law in partnership with the Hon. John P. Cushman, the distinguished jurist of our city. That tireless labor so characteristic of Mr. Seymour's life, aided by a clear, forcible, digmfied and eloquent manner of discussion, soon gave him a prominent position at the bar, and in a few years he came to fake rank with the leading lawyers of the country. . Ile was a distinguished member of the Legislature of 1836, and was elected a member of Congress in 1842. In the Congress to which he had been chosen he was selected from the State of New York to represent that State on the committees on ways and means, and as a member of that committee he won a high character for industry, condition and statesmanship, and secured for himself a very prominent position in our great national council. Mr. Seymour's sym- pathies were essentially democratie. So strongly was he imbned with such senti- ments that in the fall of 1816, when the proposition was before the State to extend the right of suffrage to colored men, irrespective of property qualifications, he voted
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for that measure, although his so doing was deemed disadvantageons to the Demo- cratie party, with which he acted, and it was on that occasion that he uttered the expression: " I will not stand up before my God and deny to any other man any right which I claim for myself." Mr. Seymour was essentially a great man ; great not only in his persuasive and effective oratory and the gifts of God, but great from the acquisitions of a diligent and studious life. As an erudite and tireless lawyer he had few equals. Mr. Seymour, although well aware of his own powers, as he must have been from the knowledge which he acquired in comparing himself with others in the conflicts in which he from time to time was necessarily engaged, never for a moment became over-confident, and never, on any occasion, obtruded himself or his opinions when not fairly called to do so by duty or propriety. In his private relations of life he has left a name withont a moral stain. Mr. Seymour was a scholar as well as a lawyer and politician. . . At the
time of Mr. Seymour's death, which occurred in the fall of 1867, he was a member of the convention called to revise the constitution of the State. He occupied a very prominent position in that body, and but for the severe labor he imposed upon hin- self there he might have been long spared to his city and to his family, whom he idolized and who idolized him. He had nearly attained the age of 64 years. His loss was felt most severely by his friends, by the profession and by the State at large. But he passed from us in the full maturity of his powers, and before time had tar- nished the brilliancy of those faculties which have rarely been equalled- very seldom surpassed.
Of the Hon. William Learned Marcy, Benjamin H. Hall, on the same occasion, said :
Brightest and highest among those whom Troy claims as her own stands the name of William Learned Marcy. He was the son of a farmer and born at Southbridge, in the southern part of Worcester county, Mass., December 12, 1986. His studies were wisely conducted, and, after pursuing a preparatory course, he was admitted a student at Brown university, whence he was graduated in the year isos. In the same year he came to Troy and commenced the study of law in the office of William M. Bliss, who at that time was the best informed layer in the village, and who several years after continued to be, as he had been for some time before, the fountain of legal practice in the county of Rensselaer. . Mr. Marcy sub-
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