History of Schodack Center, (Rensselaer County) New York United States of America

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William Curtis Noyes, jurist, was born in Schodack, Rensselaer county, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1805; son of George and? (Friend) Noyes, and a descendant of the Rev. James and Sarah (Brown) Noyes. The Rev. James Noyes, a native of Cholderton, Wiltshire, England, immigrated to America in 1634, and settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1635. William Curtis Noyes studied law in Albany, N.Y., 1819, and with Judge S. B. Ludlow, in Nassau, N.Y., 1820-21. He removed to Whitesboro, Oneida county, with his parents, completed his law studies under Henry R. Storrs, and was admitted to the bar in 1827. He practised in Rome, N.Y., and afterward in Utica, was district attorney of Oneida county, and removed to New York city in 1838. He was a commissioner with Alexander W. Bradford and David Dudley Field to codify the laws of the state, 1857-64; was the defeated Republican candidate for attorney-general of the state in 1857, and was appointed by the state legislature a member of the Peace commission in 1861. He was one of the popular Republican candidates for the nomination to the U.S. senate in 1861, and was prominently supported as an available successor to Chief-Justice Taney in 1864. He was said to have no equal as an equity lawyer and as a cross-examiner. He served on the executive committee of the American Temperance union; was a member of the charitable committee, and was also president of the New England society. Hamilton college gave him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1856, and he bequeathed to that institution his valuable law library, containing over 5000 volumes. He died in New York city, Dec. 25, 1864.

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

History of Schodack Center, (Rensselaer County) New York

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