Samuel H. Barnes
Encyclopedia
Samuel Howe Barnes was an American politician from New York
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On November 6, 1860, he was elected a Canal Commissioner
on the Republican ticket, but died a week later, before the beginning of his term.
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 married Harriet Pellet and they had six children.On November 6, 1860, he was elected a Canal Commissioner
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...
on the Republican ticket, but died a week later, before the beginning of his term.
Sources
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nychenan/1880-13.htm Chenango County Civil List, at RootsWeb
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 406)
- http://www.artmakers.com/chenango/history/norwich.html History of Norwich, Chenango Co.
- http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9503E6D71E31E134BC4D53DFB767838B679FDE The tickets, in NYT on November 5, 1860