Samuel Howe Barnes (1808 – November 13, 1860, in

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) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He married Harriet Pellet and they had six children. On November 6,

1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...

, he was elected a Canal Commissioner on the Republican ticket, but died a week later, before the beginning of his term.

Sources

Chenango County Civil List, at RootsWeb
''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 406)

History of Norwich, Chenango Co.

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