History of Mooers, (Clinton County) New York United States of America

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John Charles Churchill, representative, was born at Mooers, Clinton county, N.Y., Jan. 17, 1821; son of Samuel and Martha (Bosworth) Churchill; grandson of John Churchill of New Salem, and of John Bosworth of Sandisfield, Mass., and a descendant of John Churchill, who settled at Plymouth, Mass., in 1640. He was prepared for college at Plattsburg academy and Burr seminary, Manchester, Vt., and was graduated from Middlebury college in 1843. He was professor of languages at Castleton seminary, 1843-45, and a tutor at Middlebury college, 1845-46. He studied law at Harvard and elsewhere, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and practised at Oswego, N.Y. He was district attorney of Oswego county, 1857-59, and county judge, 1860-63. He was representative in the 40th and 41st congresses, 1867-71; a delegate to the Republican national convention at Cincinnati, 1876; a presidential elector at large for New York on the Republican ticket, 1880. He was appointed justice of the supreme court of New York to fill a vacancy, Jan. 17, 1881, and in November, 1881, was elected for the full term, which expired by the constitutional limit for age, Dec. 31, 1891. He was a trustee of Middlebury college, 1869-75. He received the degree of LL. D. from Middlebury in 1874 and from Hamilton in 1882. He was married Sept. 11, 1849, to Catharine, daughter of Dr. Lawson Sprague, surgeon U.S. army, and had children: Catharine Sprague; Eliot M., widow of Dr. W. R. R. Fisher, assistant surgeon U.S. army; John Charles, assistant U.S. engineer, and Lawrence William, a lawyer; all of Oswego, N.Y.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Ashbel Parmelee Fitch, representative, was born in Mooers, Clinton conty, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1848; son of Edward and Fanny (Parmelee) Fitch; grandson of Dr. Jabez Fitch and of the Rev. Ashbel Parmelee, D.D., and a descendant of the Rev. James Fitch, a Puritan divine who came from England in 1638 and became the first pastor at Norwich, Conn.; and of Capt. Jabez Fitch of the Connecticut line in the Revolution. He attended the public schools of New York city; Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; the Universities of Jena and Berlin, Germany, and the Columbia college law school. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1869, and settled in practice in New York city. He was a representative from the 13th New York district in the 50th, 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, 1887-95, and in all public measures acted with the Democrats in opposition to excessive tariff, but opposed the unlimited coinage of silver. He was elected on the Democratic ticket comptroller of New York, serving 1893-97. Being a strong gold standard advocate he was renominated by the Republicans in 1897 and was defeated. In 1899 he was elected president of the Trust company of America.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor