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Jesse Buel
Birth: 1-4-1778
Death: 10-6-1839
Nickname: Jesse
Biography
" Publisher, Political Figure and Agricultural Innovator. he was raised in Connecticut and Vermont, and worked as a printer in several upsate New York cities, including Troy, Poughkeepsie and Kingston. He was left bankrupt by the failure of his newspaper in Poughkeepsie, but was successful with one in Kingston, and recovered well enough to take part in politics and government, including servivg as Judge of Ulster County's Court of Common Pleas. He moved to Albany in 1813 to become editor of the "Albany Argus" and accept appointment as state printer. In 1820 he retired to a farm in Albany, "Albany Nursery," where he conducted experiments in horticulture and agriculture, which led to his publication of "The Cultivator," the newspaper of the New York Agricultural Society. In 1823 he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he advocated creation of a state agricultural college. From 1826 until his death Buel was a member of the University of the State of New York. In 1836 he was the unsuccessful Whig nominee for Governor, losing to William L. Marcy. He died in Danbury while there to deliver lectures to the local agricultural societies. Originally buried in the Reformed Church portion of the State Street Cemetery, he was moved when all the remains at that site were moved to Albany Rural Cemetery in 1866. "
Letter References
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, July 3, 1836
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, May 18, 1838
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, April 15, 1834
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" Publisher, Political Figure and Agricultural Innovator. he was raised in Connecticut and Vermont, and worked as a printer in several upsate New York cities, including Troy, Poughkeepsie and Kingston. He was left bankrupt by the failure of his newspaper in Poughkeepsie, but was successful with one in Kingston, and recovered well enough to take part in politics and government, including servivg as Judge of Ulster County's Court of Common Pleas. He moved to Albany in 1813 to become editor of the "Albany Argus" and accept appointment as state printer. In 1820 he retired to a farm in Albany, "Albany Nursery," where he conducted experiments in horticulture and agriculture, which led to his publication of "The Cultivator," the newspaper of the New York Agricultural Society. In 1823 he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he advocated creation of a state agricultural college. From 1826 until his death Buel was a member of the University of the State of New York. In 1836 he was the unsuccessful Whig nominee for Governor, losing to William L. Marcy. He died in Danbury while there to deliver lectures to the local agricultural societies. Originally buried in the Reformed Church portion of the State Street Cemetery, he was moved when all the remains at that site were moved to Albany Rural Cemetery in 1866. "
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Mentioned in 18340710BJS_WHS1: "My enquiries and your intimations seem not to tally in regard to the Gubnatoreal candidate, while you seem to think Jesse would be, if not the best, yet a very good one, others consider him a Jackson man..." Seward tried to get Buel to publicly announce his adhesion to the Whig party, but it just went badly. According to Glyndon Van Deusen's Seward biography, "Buel's star faded. The Antimasons distrusted him, and it was hard to discover whether he was a Whig or a Democrat..."
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