Samuel Rexford
Samuel Rexford (October 14, 1776 Claverack, then in Albany Co., now in Columbia County, New York - February 24, 1857 Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania) was an American politician from New York.
Life
[edit]He was in the lumber business. He was Supervisor of the Town of Sidney in 1826 and 1827.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Delaware Co.) in 1823.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1829 to 1832, sitting in the 52nd, 53rd, 54th and 55th New York State Legislatures.
Sources
[edit]- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 127f, 144, 199 and 299; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- History of Sidney, on-line version of The History of Delaware County by W. W. Munsell
- Death notice in Annual Obituary Notes of Eminent Persons, for 1857 by Nathan Crosby (Boston, 1858; pg. 284f)
- Rexford genealogy
External links
[edit]- His house (demolished 1937) in Images of America: Sidney by Erin Andrews and the Sidney Historical Association (2010; ISBN 978-0-7385-7297-0 ; pg. 28)