Charles G. Myers

Charles Godfrey Myers (born February 17, 1810 in Madrid , New York , † December 27, 1881 in Ogdensburg , New York) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Charles Godfrey Myers, son of Augusta Abigail Campbell († 1829) and Godfrey Myers (1773-1842), was born in St. Lawrence County in 1810 and grew up there. His childhood was overshadowed by the British-American War . Myers attended the St. Lawrence Academy in Potsdam (New York). In 1825 he began his law degree in the law firm of Governor Ogden in Waddington, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1832. He then began to practice in Ogdensburg, New York. The following years were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . During this time he married Frances Ann Mclean (1819-1884), daughter of Ann Tilley and Patrick Mclane Mclean. The couple had at least 4 children: George Ranney (1838-1905), Frances Abbey (1846-1881), Charles McLean (1849-1911) and Mary Louisa (1851-1933). From 1844 to 1847 he was guardianship and probate judge in St. Lawrence County. He was a member of the New York State Assembly for St. Lawrence County in 1848 . From 1848 to 1853 he was a district attorney in St. Lawrence County. Myers was one of the directors of The Great Northern Lead Company, which was founded on September 8, 1852 in Rossie, New York and operated a lead mine for several years. From 1860 to 1861 he was Attorney General of New York. In the election he ran for the Republican Party and the American Party . The following years were overshadowed by the civil war. From 1873 to 1879 he worked as a sewer surveyor.

literature

• The New York civil list . Weed, Parsons and Company, Albany 1858, p. 294.
• Franklin Benjamin Hough: A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York . Little & Company, 1853, p. 580.
• William D. Murphy: Biographical sketches of the state officers and members of the legislature of the state of New York in 1861 . P. 27.
• History of Rossie, NY . The Boston History Company, 1894.

Web links

• Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press
• Charles G. Myers on The Political Graveyard website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Charles Godfrey Myers on the Ancestry.com website