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Folger, Charles James

lawyer, jurist, was born April 16, 1818, in Nan- , was born April 16, 1818, in Nantucket, Mass. In 1844 he was appointed first judge of the court of common pleas of Ontario county ; and was elected county judge of Ontario county in 1851. was elected a state senator in 1861, and was four times re-elected. He resigned in 1869 and was appointed United States assistant treasurer at New York city. He was elected associate judge of the state court of appeals in 1870, and served until 1880; was then chief judge of that court; and resigned in 1881 on being appointed secretary of the United States treasury.

He died Sept. 4, 1884, in Geneva, N. Y.