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# Edgar L. Vincent

Edgar La Verne Vincent (December 14, 1851 – July 4, 1936) was an American farmer, newspaper editor, author, and politician from New York.

## Life

Vincent was born on December 14, 1851, in Persia, New York, the son of Hiram and Wealthy Vincent. His father was a farmer who fought in the American Civil War and died as a prisoner of war at Belle Isle in 1864.
Vincent initially worked on a farm in the summer while teaching in the winter. He graduated from Friendship Literary Academy in 1876. He entered Union College a year later, staying until he left due to ill health. Interested in newspaper work since boyhood, he began working as a compositor in the offices of the Olean Times. He managed to work his way up to editor-in-chief of the paper's daily and weekly editions. In 1880, following a competitive examination, he was appointed examiner of claims in the Pension Office in Washington, D.C. He worked with them for the next six years, spending the last three of them as special examiner in Ohio and Illinois. His service came to an end when the Democratic Commissioner of Pensions for being an "offensive partisan." He then returned to the newspaper business and worked in an editorial capacity for the Binghamton Republican and the Hartford Courant before buying the Waverly Advocate. He published the latter paper as a Republican journal until 1888, when he left due to poor health. A year later, he moved to Maine, New York and bought a farm.
Vincent wrote articles on farm topics for leading agricultural papers like The Country Gentleman, the Gentleman Farmer, the Stockman and Farmer, The Ohio Farmer, and The New York Times agricultural columns. He wrote several books, including "Margaret Bowlby," "Hot Coals," "Without Sound of Hammer," and "In the Rift of Rick." He was also an editor and advisor for "Binghamton and Broome County, New York, A History."
Vincent was a member of the Board of Supervisors for five years, representing Maine. In 1897, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Broome County 2nd District. He served in the Assembly in 1898 and 1899. He moved to Binghamton in 1905 and conducted a Farms and Farming department for the Binghamton Press for several years.
Vincent was a member of the Freemasons. He was a member and elder of the West Presbyterian Church. In 1880, he married teacher Jennie Fuller. Their children were Assemblyman Edward F. Vincent and Dr. Ralph M. Vincent.
Vincent died at home on July 4, 1936. He was buried in Floral Park Cemetery.
# Federico Storani

Federico Storani (born 5 August 1950) is an Argentine politician, who served as Minister of the Interior during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa between December 1999 and March 2001. A member of Radical Civic Union, he served several times as National Deputy representing the Buenos Aires Province.
He is the son of the renowned politician Conrado Storani. He grew up in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, where he made his elementary and high school. Then he moved to La Plata to study law where he obtained his degree at the National University of La Plata. He was elected to the Argentine congress in 1983 and the last time was in 2003.
# List of mountains of Wilkes Land

The mountains of Wilkes Land are located in the region Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, between 100°31' E and 136°11' E. Australia claims this region to be part of the Australian Antarctic Territory. The area are highly glaciated. The availability of reliable data for this region is limited, making the list incomplete and inaccurate. The highest peaks, including nunataks and ice domes, are listed below:
| Rank | Name | Elevation (meters) | Location | Coordinates | GNIS ID | SCAR ID |
| 1 | Dome C | 3233 | Antarctic Plateau | 75°00′S 125°00′E﻿ / ﻿75.000°S 125.000°E﻿ / -75.000; 125.000 | 2668 | 2550 |
| 2 | Mount Amundsen | 1445 | Knox Coast | 67°14′S 100°45′E﻿ / ﻿67.233°S 100.750°E﻿ / -67.233; 100.750 | 373 | 324 |
| 3 | Law Dome | 1395 | Budd Coast | 66°44′S 112°50′E﻿ / ﻿66.733°S 112.833°E﻿ / -66.733; 112.833 | 8605 | 8209 |
# Edward G. Tracy

Edward Griffin Tracy (1841 – May 11, 1898) was an American pharmacist and politician from New York.

## Life

Tracy was born in 1841 in Smithfield, Pennsylvania.
Tracy lived on the family farm until he was 20, at which point he worked at a store in Lock Haven. He was forced to leave for health reasons and came under the care of his older brother, a physician. He then decided to become a pharmacist, and in 1867 moved to Waverly, New York and joined a partnership with G. F. Waterloo. In 1882, he bought his partner's interest and worked as a pharmacist on his own.
Tracy served on the Waverly board of education for 10 years, serving as secretary for five years and president for four. He served as town supervisor for Barton from 1889 to 1891. In 1891, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing Tioga County. He served in the Assembly in 1892 and 1893. In 1896, he was elected village president.
Tracy was a trustee of the local Presbyterian church. He was married, and had a son named Edwin.
Tracy died at home from typhoid fever on May 11, 1898. He was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.
# Russell M. Little

Russell M. Little (December 28, 1809 in Peru, Berkshire County, Massachusetts – December 11, 1891 in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

## Life

He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and took up his pastoral duties in 1831 at Columbiaville, in Columbia County, New York. In August 1832, he married Nancy Blair, and they had several children. In 1842, due to pulmonary disease, he abandoned the ministry, and became instead Secretary of the Dividend Mutual Insurance Company at Glens Falls.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (16th D.) in 1862 and 1863.
He was President of the Glens Falls Insurance Company from 1864 until his death, and lived in the Russell M. Little House.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 443)
* 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; pg. 81ff)
* OBITUARY; RUSSELL M. LITTLE in NYT on December 12, 1891
New York State Senate :
| Preceded byNathan Lapham | New York State Senate 16th District 1862–1863 | Succeeded byPalmer E. Havens |
# Thomas Parsons (politician)

Thomas Parsons (January 7, 1814 – February 10, 1873) was an American politician from New York.

## Life

Parsons was born in Chieveley, Berkshire, England. He attended the common schools and then became a shepherd. In 1832, he emigrated to the United States, and worked as a farm-hand in Wheatland. Four years later, he removed to Rochester where he engaged in the lumber trade and established sawmills.
An alderman of Rochester from 1851 to 1854, and in 1857 and 1858, Parsons was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 2nd D.) in 1858. He was then a Republican member of the New York State Senate (28th D.) in 1866 and 1867.
Parsons died in Rochester, New York, and was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. State Senator Cornelius R. Parsons (1842–1901) was his son.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444 and 487)
* Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators, and Members of the Assembly of the State of New York, in 1867 by S. R. Harlow & H. H. Boone (pg. 133ff)
* Horrible Railroad Accident at Rochester; ...Mr. James Parsons, brother of Ex-Alderman Thomas Parsons, ...was struck down by the locomotive... in NYT on November 16, 1855
* BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH; Hon. Thomas Parsons...died yesterday morning... in NYT on February 11, 1873
* DEATH OF HON. THOMAS PARSONS in the Rochester Union and Advertiser on February 10, 1873, transcribed at RootsWeb
# William Emmet Shields

William Emmet Shields (June 6, 1861 – August 14, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

William was born on June 6, 1861, in Brooklyn. His father Michael was Chief Clerk in the Second District Civil Court, and his mother Bridget was an Irish immigrant.
Studying law under Kings County District Attorney James W. Ridgway, William became a lawyer at the age of 21. In 1884, he served as attorney for Charles H. Rugg, an accused murderer from Queens.
In 1891, William was elected to the New York State Assembly, representing the Kings County 6th District. He served in the Assembly in 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893.
William was a commander of the Oak council, American Legion of Honor.
On August 14, 1893, William died from colorectal cancer in New York Hospital, Manhattan. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens.
# Ralph A. Loveland

Ralph Andrus Loveland (January 17, 1819 in Westport, Essex County, New York – November 9, 1899) was an American politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Erastus Loveland (1793–1882) and Lucy (Bradley) Loveland (1794–1866).
He was in the transportation business from 1840 to 1853, and then manufactured pig iron until 1856. In 1840, he married Harriet Mehitable Kent (1818–1887), and they had several children.
He entered politics as a Whig, was a delegate to the Anti-Nebraska Party state convention in 1854, and joined the Republican Party upon its foundation. He was Supervisor of the Town of Westport for several terms.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Essex Co.) in 1857; and of the New York State Senate (16th D.) in 1858 and 1859.
Later he removed to East Saginaw, Michigan, and became engaged in the lumber trade.
He was buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442 and 483)
* Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1859 by William D. Murray (pg. 67ff)
* Loveland genealogy at Thomas Rogers Society
# Hugh Farley

Hugh T. Farley (born November 26, 1932) is an American attorney, professor and Republican politician from Schenectady County, New York. He served as a member of the New York Senate from 1977 until his 2016 retirement.

## Early life and family

Farley was born in Watertown, New York, and raised in Indian Lake, New York. He graduated from high school in Watertown. Farley served in the U.S. Army and then was a high school teacher in Syracuse, New York, and Maryland. Farley holds a Juris Doctor from American University School of Law, as well as a Bachelor of Science from the SUNY Albany. He is also a graduate of Mohawk Valley Community College.
Farley and his wife, Sharon, have been married for more than 57 years and have three children.

## Career

Farley served in the U.S. Army and then was a high school teacher in Syracuse, New York, and Maryland.
In 1965, Farley became a member of the faculty at the School of Business of the SUNY Albany. He later became Full Professor and Law Area Coordinator. In 2000, he became a Professor Emeritus of Business Law at the college.

### Political career

Farley was first elected to the New York State Senate in 1976. During his career, he represented all or portions of Schenectady, Saratoga, Herkimer, Hamilton, and Fulton Counties.
In 1979, Farley was chosen as the first Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Aging. As chairman, Farley authored laws creating New York's hospice care system and a law prohibiting mandatory medical intervention/treatment for terminally ill patients. In 1989, Farley was appointed Chair of the Senate Committee on Banks. In this capacity, he authored or sponsored numerous laws dealing with banking regulations, including a law enacted in 1994 aimed at making New York's interest rate deregulation laws permanent.
Farley was a member of the Governor's Commission on Libraries, and was an elected delegate to the White House's Conference on Libraries in both 1979 and 1991. He also chaired the State Senate's Select Committee on Libraries; in that role, he became known as a national leader and advocate for libraries and reading programs.
Farley sponsored legislation establishing the Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority.
Farley voted against same-sex marriage legislation on December 2, 2009, and the bill was defeated. His 2010 opponent, Democrat Susan Savage, denounced Farley's position at an October 2010 rally on the steps of the New York State Capitol. Farley defeated Savage and was re-elected with one of the largest margins in the state. In 2011, Farley again voted against allowing same-sex marriage in New York during a Senate roll-call on the Marriage Equality Act, which passed after a close 33-29 vote. In 2011, New York legalized same-sex marriage;
Farley announced that he would not seek re-election in 2016. He served in the Senate for 40 years. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-longest-serving member in New York State Senate history.
# Gopinathpur, Tarasingi

Gopinathpur is a small village in Tarasingi, Ganjam district, Odisha, India. As of the 2011 Census of India, it had a population of 374 across 83 households.
# Frederick P. Stevens

Frederick P. Stevens (1810–1866) was Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, serving 1856–1857. He was born on October 26, 1810, in Pierpont, New Hampshire. He taught, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1835 or 1836, soon after coming to Buffalo. On January 20, 1837, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas by Governor William L. Marcy. He was the first presiding judge of Erie County Court, successor to the Court of Common Pleas. He never married.
In 1854, Stevens was elected an alderman for the eleventh ward. He was elected mayor of Buffalo on November 6, 1855, as the Democratic candidate. During his term, the city undertook an extensive program of street, sidewalk, and street light improvements. He is credited as the originator of Buffalo's street railway system and was one of the first people to actively campaign for an international bridge between Buffalo and Canada.
He was a Republican Union member of the New York State Assembly (Erie Co., 2nd D.) in 1864. He died at Buffalo on March 23, 1866.
# Jabez Willes

Jabez Willes (December 6, 1790 – March 24, 1842 in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York) was an American manufacturer and politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Sylvanus Willes (1756–1841) and Eunice (Davidson) Willes (1757–1849). He married Betsey Tupper (1795–1885), and they had eight children. In 1819, the family removed to Potsdam NY, and the next year Jabez Willes established an iron foundry there. He was an associate judge of the St. Lawrence County Court.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (St. Lawrence Co.) in 1828 and 1834.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) from 1835 to 1838, sitting in the 58th, 59th, 60th and 61st New York State Legislatures.
He was buried at the Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam NY.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 130f, 147, 207, 215 and 316; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* Willes genealogy at Descendant Chronicles
* The New York Annual Register for 1830 by Edwin Williams (pg. 248)
# Diedrich Willers Jr.

Diedrich Willers Jr. (November 3, 1833 – June 25, 1908) was a Democratic politician from Varick, New York who served as Secretary of State of New York. Born to a working class German immigrant family, his political fortune was a notable example of the effect of civil service reform.

## Early life

Born in rural Varick, New York, he was the sixth of eight children of Reverend Diedrich Willers D.D. (1798–1883), an immigrant from Bremen, Germany. His father fought in the Hanoverian Army at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland in 1819, and began preaching to various Seneca County, New York congregations in 1821, and was also notable as a critic of Mormonism. His mother was born in New Holland, Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania Dutch stock.
Willers' early life was one of toil; he divided his time between working on the family farm in the summers and attending district school in the winter. With the exception of two terms at the Seneca Falls Academy, he had no schooling other than district school. He began teaching at the district school at age 16, and at age 22 entered the printing business, but was forced to abandon that pursuit due to ill health.

## Political career

He was destined by his father for the ministry, but took an early interest in politics. Having managed to obtain at intervals a law degree from Albany Law School, he was admitted to the bar, but never actively practiced as an attorney. By the age of 21, Willers was a Hard-Shell Democrat, supporting the election of Greene C. Bronson for governor in 1854. He was appointed to a clerkship in New York Secretary of State Gideon J. Tucker's office in 1857, and held this position during the succeeding terms of David R. Floyd-Jones and Horatio Ballard until 1863, when Governor Horatio Seymour appointed him as his personal secretary.
He later returned to farming in Varick, where he was chairman of the board of supervisors in 1865 and 1866. In March 1867, Willers was appointed by President Andrew Johnson as Second Auditor of the Treasury, for which he went to Washington, D.C., but he returned to New York upon the success of the Democrats in the 1867 state elections, resulting in his appointment as Deputy Secretary of State. He was the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in 1871 despite the objections of nearly all of the older or managing party politicians, but lost the election in a down year for the Democrats. He was again nominated in 1873, and this time won, serving from 1874 to 1875. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Seneca Co.) in 1878.
He was Deputy Secretary of State under Frederick Cook, retiring at the end of 1889, and there was talk of nominating Willers for Secretary of State again, but he declined due to declining health.
He died in Varick, New York on June 25, 1908.
# Josiah B. Williams

Josiah Butler Williams (December 16, 1810 – September 26, 1883) was an American businessman, banker and senator from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Josiah Williams (1768–1842) and Charity (Shaler) Williams (1775–1865). He married Mary Huggeford Hardy (1824–1911), and they had 12 children, among them geologist Henry Shaler Williams (1847–1918).
He was a Whig member of the New York State Senate (25th D.) from 1852 to 1855, sitting in the 75th, 76th, 77th and 78th New York State Legislatures.
Williams was nominated on the Know Nothing ticket for Canal Commissioner at the 1854 New York state election, but two weeks before the election declined to run. The party managers then substituted Hard Democrat Clark Burnham on the ticket but, due to slow communications, Williams still polled almost 60,000 votes.
He was a presidential elector in 1856, voting for John C. Frémont and William L. Dayton.
He was buried at the Ithaca City Cemetery.
State Senator Timothy S. Williams (1800–1849) was his brother; lumber magnate Henry W. Sage (1814–1897) was his nephew.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 137, 147, 323 and 332; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* Short bio at Ancestry.com
# Perrin H. McGraw

Perrin Henry McGraw (December 28, 1822 McGrawsville, Cortland County, New York – October 16, 1899) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

## Life

He was the son of Assemblyman Harry McGraw (c.1797–1849) and Sally (Smith) McGraw (d. 1874). He became a merchant. On April 26, 1846, he married Louisa Pritchard (1824–1890), and they had several children. He was Postmaster of McGrawsville from 1849 to 1853.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Cortland Co.) in 1854; and a member of the New York State Senate (23rd D.) in 1860 and 1861.
He was buried at the McGraw Rural Cemetery.

## Sources

* The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442 and 476)
* Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York by William D. Murphy (1861; pg. 80ff)
* Tremayne's Table of the Post-Offices in the United States (1850; pg. 111)
# Donald McNaughton (New York politician)

Donald McNaughton (March 29, 1830 Mumford, Monroe County, New York – July 30, 1893 Chicago, Illinois) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

He attended the district schools, and then became a millwright, and later a clerk. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Wheatland. He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Rochester and State Line Railroad.
He was Supervisor of the Town of Wheatland for eight years; Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Monroe County for one year; and a member of the New York State Senate (29th D.) from 1888 to 1891, sitting in the 111th, 112th, 113th and 114th New York State Legislatures. In 1892, he ran for Congress in the 31st District but was defeated by Republican John Van Voorhis.
In April 1892, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the New York State World's Fair Commission, and died of peritonitis on July 30, 1893, in the New York State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

## Sources

* The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403)
* Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1891)
* DONALD M'NAUGHTON DEAD in NYT on July 31, 1893
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| Preceded byEdmund L. Pitts | New York State Senate 29th District 1888–1891 | Succeeded byCornelius R. Parsons |
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# Asher P. Nichols

Asher P. Nichols (c. 1815 – May 30, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician.

## Life

Nichols was born in Whiting, Vermont. His family moved to Rushville, New York, when he was still at a young age. He graduated from Springville Academy at the age of about 18. He then went to Canandaigua to be a clerk in the law office of Judge George W. Clinton, son of Governor DeWitt Clinton. In 1836, they both went to Buffalo, being among the first lawyers in that city. Nichols completed his legal studies, was admitted to the bar and became Clinton's partner.
Though a staunch Democrat, he was not active in politics until 1867, when he accepted the nomination for state senator and won the election by a large majority. He was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1868 and 1869.
He was appointed New York State Comptroller in June 1870 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William F. Allen who had been elected to the New York Court of Appeals. In November 1870, he was elected to succeed himself for the remaining year of Allen's term, but in 1871, he was defeated for re-election by Republican Nelson K. Hopkins.
Nichols died of apoplexy at a friend's home in Clinton, and was buried at Rochester, New York.
# Frank L. Smith (New York politician)

Frank L. Smith (June 26, 1851 – October 13, 1926) was an American farmer and politician from New York.

## Life

Smith was born on June 26, 1851, in Charlton, New York. He attended the Charlton Academy.
Smith worked as a farmer in Charlton. He was a member of the Harmony Association, Patrons of Industry, and the Grange. He was as a manager of the Saratoga County Agricultural Society. He served as justice of the peace for eight years, and school commissioner for three terms. In the last fifteen years of his life, he was manager of the Galway Telephone Company.
Smith served as town supervisor of Galway in 1888 and 1889. In 1891, Smith was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Saratoga County 1st District. He served in the Assembly in 1892.
In 1875, Smith married Mary E. Feeney. She died in 1914. In 1921, he married Achsah Holbrook. He had two daughters, Mrs. William Crawford and Mrs. Clinton Palmatier. He was a member of the Charlton Presbyterian church, and was superintendent of the Sunday school for thirty years.
Smith died on October 13, 1926. He was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.