Biography

Mayor of Auburn, New York during the Civil War era. Better known as "Judge" George Humphreys, the mayor was the son of Dr. Erastus Humphreys and the former Anna Loomis Landen. His elder brother was the noted Dr. Frederic E. Humphreys, founder of Humphreys Homeopathic Medicines. In 1840 he married the former Lucia W. Grosvenor, and the couple became the parents of eight children: Mary Angeline, Lucia, Godfrey, Emma, Ida, Georgiana, Guy, and Llewellen. The family initially resided in Cato, NY, but in the 1850's moved to Auburn, the capital of Cayuga County, where the judge was elected mayor in 1861, 1862, and 1865. Predeceased by his wife in 1877, he was buried beside her after his death eight years later at the age of 71. Their unmarried daughters Emma and Ida were also interred in this plot after their respective deaths in 1895 and 1935.

George Humphreys worked as a clerk/scheduler for Holland Land Company. 

In Sewad's Autobiography, page 322, on Christmas Eve, 1836, Seward writes "At five o'clock this afternoon I closed the office, and gathered myself into my own house. My guests were the Misses Grosvenor, Woolsey Hopkins, and George Humphreys..."