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Sumner Stow Ely (Brooklyn, New York, attorney and notary public)

b. 1823?

Brooklyn, New York, attorney and notary public. New York native. Son of Sumner Ely and Hannah K. Ely. Graduate of Hamilton College in Oneida County, New York, in 1845. Attorney in Middlefield in 1850. Notary public in Brooklyn in 1861. Attorney in Brooklyn in 1862. Attorney in Brooklyn in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Ostego County, Middlefield, p. 112 A.

Catalogue of the Corporation, Officers and Students of Hamilton College (Clinton, NY: Curtis and White, 1863).

Brooklyn City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1862 ed. J. Lain (Brooklyn: J. Lain and Company, 1865), 121.

Brooklyn City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1865 ed. J. Lain (Brooklyn: J. Lain and Company, 1865), 127.

KYR-0001-017-0124.

Citation

Ely, Sumner Stow. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206629 (November 12, 2026).

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