Daniel Perez Bissell was an American physician and politician from New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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Life

He lived in Moscow

Leicester (village), New York

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, Livingston County, New York

Livingston County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 64,328 people, 22,150 households, and 15,349 families residing in the county. The population density was 102 people per square mile . There were 24,023 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile...

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In 1842, he was elected by the New York State Legislature one of the canal commissioners

Erie Canal Commission

The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission...

. In November 1844, he was re-elected at the first statewide election of canal commissioners, and remained in office until the end of 1847 when he was legislated out of office by the New York State Constitution of 1846.

In 1863, he was elected President of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

Sources

• http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D05E1DD113BE63BBC4E53DFB4668388679FDE "The State Medical Society", in NYT on February 6, 1863
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 42; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)