History of Blooming Grove, (Orange County) New York United States of America

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Albert Smith White, senator, was born in Blooming Grove, N.Y., Oct. 24, 1803. He was graduated from Union college, A.B., 1822, A.M., 1825; was admitted to the bar in Newburg, N.Y., 1825; removed to Indiana; practised in Rushville and Paoli, and in March, 1829, located in Lafayette, subsequently making his home in Stockwell. He was special reporter of the legislative proceedings of the state for the Indianapolis Journal, 1828-29; assistant clerk of the Indiana house of representatives, 1830-31, and clerk of the same, 1832-35; a Whig representative froth Indiana in the 25th congress, 1837-39, and U.S. senator from Indiana, 1839-45. He subsequently returned to the practice of law, but gave most of his time to railroad interests, serving as president of the Indianapolis and Lafayette road and of the Wabash and Western railway. He was a Republican representative from Indiana in the 37th congress, 1861-63, serving as chairman of the committee on compensated emancipation, and by his strenuous support of the abolition of slavery forfeited a re-election to the 38th congress. He was subsequently U.S. commissioner to adjust claims against the Sioux Indians, and on Jan. 18, 1864, by appointment from President Lincoln, succeeded Caleb B. Smith, deceased, as U.S. judge for the district of Indiana, serving until his death, in Stockwell, Ind., Sept. 4, 1864.

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

Andrew Jackson Davis, author, was born in Blooming Grove, Orange county, N.Y., Aug. 11, 1826; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Robinson) Davis. His father, a shoemaker, removed to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and there the boy developed extraordinary clairvoyant powers about 1843-45. He was able, although entirely uneducated, to converse on subjects pertaining to medicine, psychology and kindred topics. After a trance of sixteen hours he claimed to have received instruction as to his future teaching and he dictated to the Rev. William Fishbough of New York in 1845-46 his first work, "The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind," while clairvoyant. In 1883 he was graduated M.D. from the United States medical college of New York city, and became a practitioner in Boston, Mass. His published works include; The Great Harmonia (5 vols., 1850); Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse (1851); The Present Age and Inner Life (18'54); The Approaching Crisis; The Penetralia (1856); The Magic Staff, an Autobiography (1857); The Harbinger of Health (1862); Morning Lectures (1865); Death and the After Life; Stellar Key to the Summer Land (1867); Arabula, or the Divine Guest (1867); Memoranda of Persons, Places and Events (1868); The Fountain with New Jets of Meaning (1870); Mental Diseases and Disorders of the Brain (1871).

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