Beardsley, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1790, in Hoosic, N. Y. He held the post of attorney-general of the state. He was a representative in congress from Oneida county, N. Y., to the twenty-second, twenty-third, and a part of the twentyfourth and twenty-eighth congresses. He also held the office of state senator in 1823, and was assistant justice and chief justice of the supreme court of the state, and the federal appointment of United States district attorney for New York.
He died May 6, 1860, in Utica, N. Y.
BEARDSLEY, SAMUEL RAYMOND, lawyer, soldier, was born Dec. 31, 1814, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He was elected mayor of Oswego in 1852; appointed postmaster in 1853; and was defeated as a candidate for the assembly in 1858. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the twenty-fourth New York volunteers in 1861; was wounded at Chancellorsville, and was promoted to the colonelcy in 1863. He died Dec. 28, 1863, in Stevensburg, Va.