Biography

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    "US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 27th and 28th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1831 to 1835. He was one of the five Corinthian Hall investigators of the Fox Sisters (initiators of the Spiritist Movement) and "could not find the cause of the rappings or any deceit on the part of the girls"." 
     "Representative from New York; born in New Preston, Conn., June 12, 1799; pursued academic studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Utica, N.Y., in 1821 and commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y., early in 1822; later in the year moved to Rochester, N.Y.; treasurer of Monroe County in 1829 and 1830; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Twenty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law; city attorney of Rochester in 1838; vice chancellor of the eighth judicial district of New York 1839-1847; justice of the State supreme court in 1847 and 1848; professor of law at Genesee College in 1850 and 1851; died in Rochester, N.Y., September 19, 1851; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery."