History of Lodi, (Seneca County) New York United States of America

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Cornelius Cole, senator, was born at Lodi, Seneca county, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1822; son of David and Rachel (Townsend) Cole; and grandson of David Cole, senior, and of Elijah Townsend of Townsendville, N.Y. He was graduated from Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., in 1847, and at a general term of the supreme court held at Oswego in 1848, he was admitted to the bar. He migrated to California, overland, in 1849 and engaged in mining. He practised law in San Francisco, 1850-51, removing to Sacramento in the latter year. In 1856 he edited the daily and weekly Times in that city. He was elected district attorney for the city and county of Sacramento in 1858, and in 1860 was a member of the Republican national committee. He was a representative in the 38th congress, 1863-65; a delegate to the Union convention in Philadelphia in 1866, and U.S. senator from California, 1867-73, acting for some years as chairman of the committee on appropriations. In 1873 he resumed the practice of law in San Francisco, Cal. In 1881 he removed to his ranch at Colegrove, in Los Angeles county, a suburb of the city of Los Angeles, where he continued the practice of the law. He was very active and influential in political affairs prior to and during the civil war, and also during the reconstruction period.

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

Thomas Flood, representative, was born in Lodi, Seneca county, N.Y., April 12, 1844. He attended the Lodi public schools and the Elmira, N.Y., free academy, subsequently engaging in business in Elmira as a druggist. Later he became interested in farming and lumbering. He was a city alderman, 1882-83; president of the Chemung county agricultural society, 1884-85; and represented the 28th New York district in the 50th and 51st congresses, 1887-91.

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