History of Johnstown, (Fulton County) New York United States of America

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Daniel Cady, jurist, was born in Canaan, Columbia county, N. Y. April 29, 1773; son of Eleazer Cady, a farmer. He was educated at the town school and academy, was admitted to the bar in 1795, and began practising law at Florida, Montgomery county, but soon removed to Johnstown, Fulton county. In politics he was a Federalist. He was elected to the New York state assembly in 1809 and was re-elected a number of times. In 1814 he was elected a representative to the 14th Congress. He was in active practice for over fifty-five years. He was elected a judge of the New York supreme court in 1847, was re-elected in 1849, and during that year was ex-officio a judge of the court of appeals. He resigned from the bench in 1855, being eighty-two years old. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Hamilton college in 1834. On July 8, 1801, he married Margaret Chinn, daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the revolutionary army. They had a large family of children, the most distinguished being Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the reformer. A sketch of Daniel Cady as a lawyer, by his son-in-law, Henry B. Stanton, will be found in Barbour's New York supreme court reports, vol. xviii., p. 662. He died in Johnstown. N. Y., Oct. 81, 1859.

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

Daniel Cady Eaton, educator, was born in Johnstown, N.Y., June 16, 1837; son of Daniel C. and Harriet E. (Cady) Eaten; grandson of Amos Eaton, botanist; nephew of Gen. Amos Beebe Eaton, U.S.A.; great-grandson of Capt. Abel Eaton and of Col. James Livingston of the Revolutionary war; and a descendant of John Eaton of Dover, England, who came to America and settled in Dedham, Mass., about 1636. He was graduated at Yale in 1860 and on special examination before the supreme court at Albany, N.Y., was admitted to the bar in 1861. He studied at G?ttingen gymnasium in 1854, at the University of Berlin in 1867-68, and was admitted to the ?cole des beaux arts, Paris, and to the atelier of G?rome in 1869. He was professor of the history and criticism of art in Yale college, 1869-71, and of the history of art, 1871-76. Among his publications are: Introduction to the Study of Greek Sculpture (1879); The Study of the Arts of Design in American Colleges (1882); Handbook of Greek and. Roman Sculpture (3d ed., 1886); Yale College in 1890 (1890); The Laws of Pensions (1893); Constitutional Coinage (1896).

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

Samuel Plantz, educator, was born in Johnstown, N.Y., June 13, 1859; son of James and Elsie Ann (Stoller) Plantz, and grandson of Peter and Elizabeth Plants and of Michael and Mary (Quilheart) Stoller. He attended the common schools of Emerald Grove, Wis., and Milton college, Wis., was graduated from Lawrence university, A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883, from Boston university, S.T.B., 1883, and was a student at Berlin university, Germany, 1890-91. He was pastor of Methodist churches in Detroit, Mich., 1885-92, and was elected president of Lawrence university, Appleton, Wis., in 1894. He was married, Sept. 16, 1895, to Myra A., daughter of the Rev. T. A. Goodwin of Indianapolis, Ind. He became a member of the Victoria Institute, London, 1896; the American Academy of Social and Political Science in 1895; and the Wisconsin Academy of Science in 1895. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him in curso by the School of All Sciences in 1887, and the honorary degree of D.D. by Albion college in 1894. He contributed articles to leading theological and philosophical periodicals.

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