David P. Forrest
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Life
He was Clerk of Schenectady CountySchenectady County, New York
Schenectady County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 154,727. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Schenectady. The name is from a Mohawk Indian word meaning "on the other side of the...
from 1850 to 1852. He was Mayor of Schenectady in 1859.
He was an Inspector of State Prisons
New York State Prison Inspector
The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. At the New York state election, 1847, three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every year one Inspector would be elected to a...
from 1860 to 1862, elected in 1859
New York state election, 1859
The 1859 New York state election was held on November 8, 1859, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and the Clerk of the...
on the Republican ticket; and from 1865 to 1867, elected in 1864 on the Union ticket. In 1868, he was Warden of Sing Sing State Prison
Sing Sing
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services in the town of Ossining, New York...
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Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 46 and 393; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 411 and 536)
- http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/schenectady/officials.html Schenectady history [name given as "David P. Forest" and giving wrong party affiliation]
- THE SING SING PRISON in NYT on December 21, 1868
- THE SING SING MURDER in NYT on December 4, 1868