Poole, Theodore L
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 10, 1840, in Elbridge, N. Y. He enlisted as quartermaster sergeant in the one hundred and twentysecond regiment New York volunteers in 1862. He was discharged as captain and brevet major in 1866. He was county clerk of Onondaga county in 1868-70; and United States pension agent for the western district of New York from 1879 to 1888; commander of the department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1892. He has been engaged in the manufacture of salt and is interested in various manufacturing and other corporations; and is one of the directors of the bank of Syracuse. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.