-Was educated in LeRoy Academy and Cornell University. Served as a NY State Senator for most of his career, introduced the use of the electric chair. Later served on the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
-National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 8
-Who was Who in America, Volume 4
-In 1900 Living in Buffalo, 233 Pennsylvania Street
-Acquired a large library of books on the family. Unknown where they ended up.
-Birthdate is frequently given as 1848. The 1900 Census gives Feb 1846.
-His wife was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Cornes) Jackson. She was born February 1852 in New York, and later lived in Colorado, and then Corona, California. She died in Riverside, California December 7, 1944.
-His son Morton was a lawyer.
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