History of Albion, (Orleans County) New York United States of America

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Sanford Elias Church, jurist, was born in Milford, Otsego county, N.Y., April 18, 1815. He was admitted to the bar and settled at Albion, N.Y. He was elected a member of the State assembly from Orleans county as a Democrat in 1842, and was district attorney for his county, 1846-51. He was lieutenant-governor of New York, 1851-55, and comptroller of the state, 1858-59. In 1867 he was appointed chairman of the committee on finance in the constitutional convention. This body organized a new court of appeals to comprise one chief justice and six associate justices, the term of office to be fourteen years, and at the election held May 17, 1870, Mr. Church was elected chief justice. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Rochester in 1868. He died at Albion, N.Y., May 14, 1880.

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

Annete Lucile Noble, author, was born in Albion, N.Y., July 12, 1844; daughter of Dr. William and Amelia Stiles (Denio) Noble; granddaughter of Elnathan and Mary (Weston) Noble, and of John and Harriet (Stiles) Denio. Harriet Stiles was a granddaughter of Ezra Stiles . Annette Lucile Noble was graduated at Phipps Union seminary, Albion, N.Y., in 1863, and engaged in literary work, traveling extensively in Europe, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and other foreign countries. Her stories have been translated into several foreign languages and had a large circulation in Holland. She is the author of: Eleanor Willoughby (1870); St. Augustine's Ladder (1879); Judge Branard's Infantry (1873); Under Shelter (1876); Out of the Way (1877); The Queer House in Rugby Court (1878); Silas Gower's Daughter (1878); Uncle Jack's Executors (1880); Eunice Lathtop, Spinster (1881); How Billy went up in the World (1883); Miss Janet's Old House (1884); The Professor's Dilemma (1885); The Crazy Angel (1888), and many stories for the young.

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