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# George R. Babcock

George Reed Babcock (September 20, 1806 – September 22, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of William Babcock and Julia (Reed) Babcock. He was born in that part of the Town of Gorham which in 1822 was separated as the Town of Hopewell, in Ontario County, New York. In 1824, he removed to Buffalo, and studied law with Heman B. Potter, then D.A. of Erie County. Babcock was admitted to the bar in 1829, and practiced in partnership with Potter. On May 13, 1835, he married Mary Bradley Potter (1815–1877), his law partner's oldest daughter, and they had three children.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Erie Co.) in 1843.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) from 1850 to 1853, sitting in the 73rd, 74th, 75th and 76th New York State Legislatures.
In 1876, he was appointed by Gov. Samuel J. Tilden a member of the Commission to Inspect the State Prisons. While inspecting Clinton State Prison at Dannemora, in Clinton County, New York, he contracted a fever, and died on September 22, 1876, at the home of the prison's Warden. He was buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 136ff, 227 and 256; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* Babcock Genealogy by Stephen Babcock (e-book)
New York State Senate :
| Preceded byJohn T. Bush | New York State Senate 31st District 1850–1853 | Succeeded byJames O. Putnam |
# George C. Bennett (New York politician)

George C. Bennett (September 24, 1824 – January 3, 1885) was an English-American newspaper printer and politician.

## Life

Bennett was born on September 24, 1824, in London, England. He immigrated to America in 1836, when he was twelve.
Bennett initially worked as a cabinet maker for three years. Not finding the labor to his liking, he spent a year working as a farmer with his uncle in Morris County, New Jersey. In the spring of 1841, he began working for John W. Oliver in New York City and began learning the printing trade in the printing firm Sackett & Sargent. He then began working with Joseph Snowden in a New York City office, followed by working successively in several New York City printing offices.
In December 1846, Bennett moved to Williamsburgh. In January 1847, he began publishing a daily newspaper called the Morning Post with two other printers and writer Isaac Anderson Smith. He ended up a proprietor of the paper along with Thomas A. Devyr and Joseph Taylor. After a year with the paper, he and Aaron Smith started the Williamsburgh Daily Times in 1848. When Williamsburgh was consolidated with Brooklyn in 1854, the paper was renamed to reflect the consolidation. Smith retired from the paper after three years, and Bennett ran the paper alone until he formed a new partnership with Bernard Peters in 1868. He left the Times in 1875, with George H. Fisher becoming his successor in the paper.
Bennett was originally a Free Soil Whig, but he joined the Republican Party when it was founded. In 1871, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican over Democrat Joseph Droll, representing the Kings County 8th District (Wards 15, 17, and 18 of Brooklyn). He served in the Assembly in 1872 and 1874. In 1872, dissatisfied with the party's local management and being a long-time admirer of Horace Greeley, he endorsed the Liberal Republican Party. He returned to the Republican Party after the former party failed and many of its member joined the Democrats.
In the 1874 United States House of Representatives election, Bennett unsuccessfully ran in New York's 4th congressional district, losing to Archibald M. Bliss. He became a member of the board of education in 1870. In 1877, he was appointed Commissioner of City Works. As Commissioner, he was indicted for malfeasance in office, with him and John W. Flaherty being charged with defrauding the city out of $50,000 by giving sinecure positions. They were both found guilty and each fined 250 dollars. He then retired from that office and public life, devoting his time to improving the Evergreens Cemetery as president of its board of trustees. He was a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention.
Bennett was married to Sarah Ann. Their children were Clara, Orlando, George, Walter, Sarah, Charles Goodwin, and Hannah E.
Bennett died at home from Bright's disease on January 3, 1885. He was buried in the Cemetery of the Evergreens.
# Isaiah Blood

Isaiah Blood (February 13, 1810 in Ballston, Saratoga County, New York – November 29, 1870) was an American farmer, manufacturer and politician from New York.

## Life

Isaiah was the son of Sylvester Blood, a farmer and scythe maker who enlarged his business by purchasing land next to the Kayaderosseras Creek in an area known as "The Hollow," now Bloodville, New York.
In 1831, Isaiah married Jane E. Gates of Ballston Spa and was given the choice of taking over the scythe shop or a retail store of which Sylvester was part owner. Isaiah chose the scythe shop and moved to The Hollow with his wife. Six years later he took over the business and began increasing production.
In 1851, Blood joined up with two other businessmen and built an axe factory a short distance downstream, and within a year became the sole owner. A fire burned down the enterprise, but Blood persevered and built a new factory even larger than the one that was lost. The Scythe Works also burned down in the 1850s and were rebuilt on a larger scale.
His organizational skills and ambition were applied in greatly expanding the production of both scythes and axes through the careful development of quality control processes. His tools became well known throughout the Western Hemisphere, and lumbermen were proud to have the name "I. Blood" stamped on their axes. In the American Civil War, Blood manufactured an order of battle-axes for a Massachusetts artillery company in the Union Army measuring two feet long (resembling a short, slightly curved sword).
His political inclinations were Democratic. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Saratoga Co., 1st D.) in 1852; and of the New York State Senate (15th D.) in 1860 and 1861. Governor Morgan appointed him a member of the war committee of Saratoga County to enlist recruits for the army during the Civil War. He was again a member of the State Senate in 1870, but died of typhoid fever on November 29. At the time of his death, he was also Supervisor of the Town of Milton, New York, a position he had held twice before, in 1847 and 1859. He is buried in Ballston Spa Village Cemetery.

## Legacy

His son-in-law Henry Knickerbacker assumed ownership of the works and operated it for 20 more years. In 1892 the business was sold to the American Axe & Tool Company. In 1901 both the axe and scythe works were destroyed in separate fires and not rebuilt. The hamlet of Bloodville, New York still bears his name today.

## Sources

* Lost Industries of the Kaydeross Valley: A History of Manufacturing in Ballston Spa, New York (2007)
* Isaiah Blood: Scythe and Axe Maker of Ballston Spa, New York by Timothy Starr (2010)
* Invented in Ballston Spa (2008)
* The Story of the Bloods by Richard Deane Harris
# William Henry Bogart

William Henry Bogart (1810 in Albany, New York – 1888 in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York), was a lawyer, legislator, journalist, historian and one of the first trustees of Wells College.

## Political Office

In 1840, Mr. Bogart was elected to the New York State Assembly to represent Tompkins County; he served one term. Additionally he was a clerk for the New York State Senate.

## Writings

Mr. Bogart was a correspondent for New York Courier and Enquirer and the New York World newspapers, but he was also an historian and author. He most well known for his book on Daniel Boone, Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky (1854), which Bogart wrote in an attempt to rescue Daniel Boone from becoming entirely myth and legend. Bogart also wrote poetry and books on more general American history.

## Sources

* ↑ "NYT Archives" (PDF). timesmachine.nytimes.com.
* ↑ "New York Times Article Archives" (PDF). timesmachine.nytimes.com.
* ↑ "NYT Time Machine" (PDF). timesmachine.nytimes.com.
* ↑ "8/23/1888 NYT Article" (PDF). timesmachine.nytimes.com.
* ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2011-08-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
* ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2011-08-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
* ↑ "New York Times Article" (PDF). timesmachine.nytimes.com.
* ↑ "Daniel Boone: The Great Civilizer". Archived from the original on April 30, 1997.
# Selloi

The Selloi (Greek: Σελλοί) were an ancient Greek tribe inhabiting Epirus in ancient Greece, in a region between Dodona—site of the oldest reported oracle—and the Achelous river; Aristotle named the area ancient Hellas. A group who were formerly called Graecians and later Hellenes lived there as well. According to Homer, they were priests of the Dodonian Zeus. Classicist and linguist Steve Reece has traced the Homeric name Selloi Σελλοί back to a historical tribe named Helloi Ἑλλοί (related to Hellas, Hellenes, etc). During the oral period of epic transmission one of Homer's bardic predecessors misheard a formulaic expression in which the name was embedded and metanalyzed "Helloi" as "Selloi."
# Joella

Joella may refer to:

## People

* Joella (drag queen), American drag queen
* Joella Gipson, American musician and mathematician
* Joella Lloyd, Antiguan sprinter
* Joella Yoder, Dutch science historian

## Other

* Joella Productions, British television production company
* 726 Joëlla, minor planet
# White House Big Dig

The White House Big Dig was the name used in press reports to describe a multi-year construction project at the White House that began in September 2010 and temporarily concluded in 2012, with a second phase planned for the future. According to the General Services Administration (GSA), the $376-million project, which involved a multi-story excavation adjacent to the West Wing, was to replace electrical wiring and update air conditioning. A second phase of the project, with an unannounced start date, will involve a similar excavation adjacent to the East Wing. Funds for the White House Big Dig were allocated by a congressional appropriation made in late 2001.
Despite the utilitarian description of its purpose, the project came to be the object of intense media speculation. The Washington Post characterized the GSA description of the project as a "nothing to see here story" while The New York Times, citing an anonymous source, claimed it was "security-related construction." The Associated Press reported that a privacy screen was placed around the construction site for its duration and sub-contractors on the project were required to cover identifying marks or logos on their company vehicles, measures which it implied were unusual. ABC News, meanwhile, equated the construction project as a "mystery" on-par with "what happened to the dinosaurs". In a story set to the theme song from the science fiction television program The X-Files, reporter John Berman sarcastically commented "maybe it is a bunch of pipes and wires ... just like Area 51".
In 2013, RealClearPolitics reported that a "clone" of the Oval Office would be built in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, as the Oval Office would be unusable during the second phase of the White House Big Dig. White House press secretary Jay Carney subsequently rebutted that report as false.
# George Chambers (New York politician)

George Chambers (October 31, 1815 Marbletown, Ulster County, New York – September 22, 1880) was an American physician and politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Assemblyman Jacob Chambers (1776–1847) and Maria (Hasbrouck) Chambers (1780–1835). His father had served in the New York State Assembly from 1835 to 1836. His sister, Catherine Chambers (1807-1865) married their third cousin, once removed Josaphat DuBois Hasbrouck Jr. (1805-1893).
He studied medicine, and began to practice about 1838 in Neversink, Sullivan County, New York. Three years later he returned to Marbletown, and lived in Stone Ridge.
He entered politics as a Whig; joined the Know Nothings, supporting Millard Fillmore for President in 1856; and then became a Democrat. He was Supervisor of the Town of Marbletown in 1848, 1854, and from 1861 to 1866; and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County from 1864 to 1866. He was a member of the New York State Senate (10th D.) in 1866 and 1867.
He was buried at the Benton-Bar Cemetery in Kyserike.

## Family

Through his mother, Chambers is a descendant of the Hasbrouck family, Huguenot refugees who helped found New Paltz, New York. Through his father, Chambers is a descendant of Captain Henry Pawling, a British Army officer who helped capture New Amsterdam for the British in 1664, before the American Revolutionary War. He is also a first cousin, once removed of American Naval Officer and Naval Aviation Pioneer Washington Irving Chambers.
On December 5, 1845, Chambers married Sarah Catherine Sahler (1823–1856), and they had four children. On January 28, 1858, he married Mary Esther Westbrook (1835–1895), and they had five children.
Known children of Chambers:
* Josephine Chambers (1849-1933), by first wife
* Jacob Chambers (1852-1904), by first wife
* Frank Chambers (1859-1901), by second wife
* George F. Chambers (1861-1910), by second wife
* Mattie Chambers (1863-?), by second wife
* Cora Chambers (1868-?), by second wife
* Julian M. Chambers (1872-1945), by second wife
His daughter, Josephine, married Hiram Schoonmaker (1836-1910). He was the grandson of Wells Lake, who was a New Paltz Town Supervisor, New York State Assemblyman and New York State Senator, and brother of Wells Lake Schoonmaker, a Marbletown Town Supervisor.
# James M. Cook

James Merrill Cook (November 19, 1807 in Ballston, Saratoga County, New York – April 12, 1868 in Saratoga, New York) was an American businessman, banker and politician.

## Career

From 1838 to 1856, he was the first President of the Ballston Spa Bank (later Ballston Spa National Bank) and also was the owner of cotton mills at Ballston Spa.
In 1842, 1843 and 1845, he was President of the Village of Ballston Spa. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (13th D.) from 1848 to 1851, sitting in the 71st, 72nd, 73rd, 74th New York State Legislatures.
At the state election in November 1851, he was elected New York State Treasurer on the Whig ticket by a margin of only 228 votes (200,693 for Cook; 200,465 for Welch), and took office on January 1, 1852. His Democratic opponent Benjamin Welch, Jr. contested the election successfully, and on November 20, 1852, Welch succeeded to the office for the remainder of the term.
He was New York State Comptroller from 1854 to 1855, defeated for re-election in 1855 by the American Party candidate Lorenzo Burrows.
From 1856 to 1861, he was Superintendent of the New York State Banking Department. He was again a member of the State Senate (15th D.) in 1864 and 1865.

## Personal life

Cook was married to Anna Cady. Their daughter, Catherine Phillips Cook married George Sherman Batcheller.
Cook is buried in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery.

## Sources

* Official state canvass, in NYT on January 1, 1852
* Political Graveyard
* History of Saratoga County, New York by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester (1878)
* Google Books The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 34, 36, 39 and 139; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* The Whig ticket in 1855, in NYT on September 29, 1855
* Re-appointed Bank Superintendent, in NYT on January 13, 1859
# Thomas Crook

Thomas Crook (May 22, 1798 Westminster, Windham County, Vermont – October 3, 1879) was an American politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of James Crook (1777–1838) and Hannah (Martin) Crook (1767–1834). They removed to Beekmantown, New York before the War of 1812. On March 21, 1821, Thomas Crook married Hannah Elizabeth DeLong (1805–1874), and they had eight children.
In 1827, he was elected a Justice of the Peace of Beekmantown. He removed to the county seat, Plattsburgh, after his election as Sheriff. He was Sheriff of Clinton County from 1832 to 1834, and County Clerk from 1836 to 1838.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) in 1847; and (14th D.) again in 1850 and 1851.
He was buried at the Maple Hill Cemetery in Rouses Point, New York.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 135f, 140, 387 and 398; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* The New York State Register (1830; pg. 153)
* Crook genealogy at RootsWeb
* Maple Hill Cemetery inscriptions transcribed at RootsWeb
New York State Senate :
| Preceded byThomas B. Mitchell | New York State Senate Fourth District (Class 4) 1847 | Succeeded bydistrict abolished |
| Preceded byJames S. Whallon | New York State Senate 14th District 1850–1851 | Succeeded byEli W. Rogers |
# Henry J. Daggett

Henry J. Daggett (August 16, 1826 – October 27, 1910) was an American politician from New York.

## Life

He was born on August 16, 1826, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Henry Daggett (died 1870) and Mary Daggett (died 1871). In 1838, the family moved to Oswego County, New York, first to Oswego, and about 1842 to New Haven. He attended the public schools, and worked on the family farm. About 1845, he joined the merchant marine on Lake Ontario, and after four years was licensed as a master mariner. He then commanded sailing vessels mostly used for the grain trade until 1863. Afterwards he engaged in grain and dairy farming, flour milling, the lumber trade and the forwarding business. He married Frances L. Holly (c.1831–1899).
Daggett was Supervisor of the Town of New Haven from 1872 to 1876, a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co., 3rd D.) in 1875, and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Oswego County in 1876.
He died on October 27, 1910; and was buried at the New Haven Cemetery.

## Sources

* ↑ History of Oswego County, New York by Crisfield Johnson (L. H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia PA, 1877; pg. 341 and 345)
* ↑ Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York compiled by Edgar Albert Werner (1884; pg. 375)
# Israel T. Deyo

Israel Tripp Deyo (January 28, 1854 – October 5, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

Deyo was born on January 28, 1854, in Union, New York. He was the son of Richard Deyo and Caroline Eckert.
Deyo graduated from Binghamton High School as the class valedictorian in 1875. He then attended Amherst College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1879. He was a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He became principal of Whitney's Point Academy in Whitney Point in 1879 and 1880. Afterwards, he taught English and history at Cortland Normal School (today the State University of New York College at Cortland) in 1881 and 1882.
Deyo read law, and in 1882 studied law under David H. Carver, the District Attorney of Broome County. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and began practicing law in Binghamton. In 1885 he formed a law practice with Carver. They later started the law firm Carver, Deyo, & Jenkins.
In 1889, Deyo was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing Broome County. He served in the Assembly in 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893.
In 1894, Governor Flower appointed Deyo to serve on a commission to investigate charges made against the management of the Elmira Reformatory. He served as a delegate to the 1915 New York State Constitutional Convention.
After he left the Assembly, Deyo became a member of the law firm Jenkins, Deyo, & Hitchcock. He was a member and former vice-president of the New York State Bar Association and a member of the American Bar Association. He was a director of Binghamton Gas Works and Binghamton Dry Goods Company, secretary-director of the Deyo Oil Company, secretary of Larrabee-Deyo Motor Truck Company, and member of the dairy firm Deyo Brothers. He also was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Cortland Normal School and vice-president of the New York State Agricultural Society. He was a freemason, a companion of the Royal Arch Masonry, a Knight Templar, and a Shriner. In 1887, he became the trustee of the First Congregational Church in Binghamton.
Deyo married Josephine A. Smith in 1880. She died in 1881, less than a year after their marriage. In 1889, he married Edith A. Weld. Their children were Austin, Dorothy, and state senator and New York Supreme Court Justice Martin W. Deyo. One sibling of note was Martin L. Deyo. Martin L. Deyo attended the Brockport Normal School and was a founding member of The Gamma Sigma Society of 1869. Martin L Deyo was a renowned Math Professor at the Albany Academy from 1870 to 1898.
Deyo was still working as a lawyer until the age of 93. He died at home on October 5, 1953. He was buried in Floral Park Cemetery.
# Abram Dixon

Abram Dixon (July 23, 1787, in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont Republic – April 19, 1875, in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Joseph Dixon (1754–1839) and Mercy (Raymond) Dixon (1761–1847). Around 1795, the family moved to Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. He attended Hamilton-Oneida Academy, and graduated from Yale College in 1813. He then studied law at Hamilton, Madison County, New York. On August 29, 1817, he married Caroline Pelton (1798–1837), and they had three children. The newly-wed couple settled at Westfield, and Dixon practiced law there.
Around 1840, he married Eliza Williams (Holt) Higgins (c. 1805–1858), and they had two children.
He was a Whig member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) from 1840 to 1843, sitting in the 63rd, 64th, 65th and 66th New York State Legislatures.
In November 1867, he was elected a special surrogate of Chautauqua County.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 132ff and 140; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* Death notice of his wife in Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons by Nathan Crosby (Boston, 1859; pg. 90)
* Manual for the Use of the Legislature (1870; pg. 241)
# Albert G. Dow

Albert Gallatin Dow (August 16, 1808 Plainfield, then in Cheshire Co., now in Sullivan County, New Hampshire – May 23, 1908) was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Solomon Dow (died 1822) and Phebe Dow. The family removed to Hartland, Vermont, in 1811; and to a farm about nine miles from Batavia, New York in 1816. He attended the common schools, and then became a store clerk. In 1827, he removed to Panama, and the next year to Silver Creek where he ran first a shoe and leather shop, then a hardware store. On October 4, 1829, he married Freelove Mason (1806–1847), and they had five children.
In 1845, he removed to Randolph, and ran there a dry-goods store and a hardware store. On April 23, 1850, he married Lydia Ann Mason (1814–1891), a sister of his first wife, and they had a son. From 1860 on, he engaged in banking, and from 1881 to 1890 was President of the First National Bank of Salamanca.
He entered politics as a Democrat, became a War Democrat at the beginning of the American Civil War, and remained a Republican thereafter. He was Supervisor of the Town of Randolph in 1851, 1853, 1856 to 1859, and 1862; a member of the New York State Assembly (Cattaraugus Co., 2nd D.) in 1863 and 1864; and a member of the New York State Senate (32nd D.) in 1874 and 1875.
He died on May 23, 1908, aged 99, and was buried at the Randolph Cemetery.

## Sources

* Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and the Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1862 and '63 by William D. Murphy (1863)
* Life Sketches of Government Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1875 by W. H. McElroy and Alexander McBride (pg. 57f) [e-book]
* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 497 and 499)
* Albert Gallatin Dow (1808–1908) (e-book)