Life

From 1831 to 1849, he lived on the Bluff Point, the peninsula between the two northern branches of Keuka Lake

Keuka Lake

Keuka Lake is an unusual member of New York's Finger Lakes because it is Y-shaped, instead of long and narrow. Because of its shape, it was referred to in the past as Crooked Lake...

 in Jerusalem, NY. He was Supervisor of the Town of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, New York

Jerusalem is a town in Yates County, New York in the United States. The population was 4,525 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the ancient city of Jerusalem in the Middle East....

 in 1843, and a Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...

 in 1844. He was Sheriff of Yates County from 1850 to 1852, and from 1868 to 1870.

In 1874, he was elected on the Democratic ticket 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...

, and was in office from January 1875 to February 1877. The office was abolished by a constitutional amendment in 1876, and the three last Inspectors of State Prisons - Wagener, Rodney R. Crowley

Rodney R. Crowley

Rodney Rufus Crowley was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a New York Inspector of State Prisons from 1876 to 1877.-Life:...

 and Robert H. Anderson - left office upon the appointment of Louis D. Pilsbury as Superintendent of State Prisons.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 45 and 410; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/yates/jerusalem/jeruhistory.htm Jerusalem, NY, history, at USGenNet
• http://www.yatescounty.org/display_page.asp?pID=514 List of Sheriffs of Yates County, at official site