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Andrews, Samuel G

merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1799, in Derby, Conn. He received an academic education; removed, with his father, to Rochester, N. Y., in 1816; was occupied chiefly in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits; and was for several years mayor of Rochester. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1831 and 1832 from Monroe county, N. Y.; was postmaster of Rochester; and was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress. He died in 1863 in Rochester, N. Y.

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