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New York farmer, manufacturer, and politician. Londonberry, New Hampshire, native. Married to Hannah W. Patterson. Father of Hannah W. Patterson and George W. Patterson, Jr. Graduated from Pinkerton Academy. Relocated to manufacture fanning mills Genessee County, New York, in 1818. Relocated to Leicester, New York, in 1825. Farmer and manufactured farm implements. Commissioner of highways in Leicester. Justice of the peace in Leicester. Member of the House of Representatives of New York State from 1832 to 1833 and 1835 to 1840. Member of the Whig Party. Relocated to Westfield, New York, in 1841. Land agent for the Chautauqua Land Office in 1841. Delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention in 1846. Lieutenant governor of New York from 1848 to 1850. Commissioner of New York Harbor from 1855 to 1857. Delegate to the Republican National Conventions representing New York in 1856 and 1860. Member of the Republican Party.
New York entrepreneur and politician. Chautauqua County, New York, native. Worked in the lumber industry. Worked as a land speculator. Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1853 to 1855 as a Free Soil Democrat. Founding member of the New York Republican Party in 1855. Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1857 to 1864 as a Republican. Governor of the State of New York from 1865 to 1868.
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New York governor, attorney and politician. Florida, New York, native. Married to Frances A. Seward. Father of Augustus H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, William H. Seward, Jr., and Frances A. Seward. Graduated from Union College in 1820. Pursued legal education in Goshen, New York, and New York City, New York. Admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Auburn, New York, with Judge Elijah Miller. Member of the Senate of New York State from 1830 to 1834. Member of the Anti-Masonic Party. Governors of New York State from 1839 to 1843. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the Senate of the United States of America from 1849 to 1861. Member of the Republican Party after 1855. Unsuccessful candidate for president on the Republican Party ticket at the Chicago Convention in 1860. Secretary of State of the United States of America, under President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson, from 1861 to 1869.
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Westfield, New York, land agent, commissioner of deeds, and notary public. Native of England. Married to Mila W. Francis. Father of John Francis, Jr., Elizabeth Francis, Anna S. Francis, and Robert C. Francis. Land agent for the Chautauqua Land Office in Westfield in 1860 and 1865. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in New York in 1865. Notary public in New York in 1865.
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Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.
Located in Chautauqua County, New York. Located on Lake Erie.
Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.
County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Scottsville. Located on the Barren River.
State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Harrisburg. Located on Lake Erie and the Delaware River.
State in the northeast United States. Capital at Albany. Located on the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.
Land office located in Wesfield, New York. Agency of the New York State Government.
Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.
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Honored Sir
Having been appointed Notary Public by the Governor of this State and Commisioner by the Governors of different other States, I beg respectfully to ask of your Excellency the appointment of Commissioner for your State.
If you require any reference before making the appointment I beg to mention Hon
the charge in the Office for the past fifteen years.
If my application is favorably received be so kind as to direct your secretary to inform me what fee if any is required. There is of course but little to be done & therefore I could not pay a large fee but there are a few persons here who contemplateing assisting to develop one of the almost wholly latent sources of wealth in your state as soon ats the arm of Justice can destroy the bands of Gurrillas by which it is infested --
We sent down some men the other day & after spending nearly a thousand dollars at
were obliged to leave on account of the murders & robberies committed in the neighborhood --
Could your Excellency adopt some plan or setation a force there it would add vastly to the resources of the State as it has already in
I am
Honored Sir,
Yours Resp"
To his Excellency the
Comr Deeds
John Francis
apptdth Feby 1865