Samuel S. Whallon (April 20, 1804
Argyle,
Washington County, New York
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,302. The county seat is Fort Edward. The county was named for U.S. President George Washington.
Washington County is part of the Glen ...
- July 6, 1858
Erie
Erie (; ) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. Erie is the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest city in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 a ...
,
Erie County, Pennsylvania) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
Life
About 1812. his family removed to
Mayville, New York
Mayville is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 1,477 at the 2020 census, 13.7% less than in the 2010 census. Mayville is in the town of Chautauqua and is the county seat of Chautauqua County. The village ...
. In 1834, he was one of the co-founders of the ''Mayville Sentinel'', but already the next year the newspaper was sold.
He was a member of the
New York State Assembly (
Chautauqua Co., 1st D.) in
1855
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.
* January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru.
* January 23
** The first bridge over the Mississippi River open ...
.
He was a
Canal Commissioner
The Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie and Report, known as the Erie Canal Commission, was a body created by the New York State Legislature in 1810 to plan the Erie Canal. In 1817 a ''Canal Fund'' led by ''Commissioners of the C ...
from 1856 until his death, elected at the
1855 New York state election
The 1855 New York state election was held on November 6, 1855, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, two judges of the New York Court of Appeals, a Canal Commission ...
on the
American Party ticket.
He died of
scarlet fever.
Sources
Obit in NYT on July 8, 1858 {gives July 6 as death date]
Political Graveyard
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 42, 248 and 315; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who Have Died in the United States: For 1857-1858''compiled by Nathan Crosby (Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1859; page 377)
ives July 6 as death date, and gives wrong election year for canal commissioner "1856" (he was elected in 1855)br>
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 406)
ives July 5 as death date
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1804 births
1858 deaths
People from Mayville, New York
Erie Canal Commissioners
People from Argyle, New York
Members of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) Know Nothings
19th-century American politicians
Deaths from streptococcus infection