Gardner Stow

Gardner Stow (* around 1790 in Orange , Massachusetts , † after 1853) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Gardner Stow, son of Timothy Stow, was born in Franklin County around 1790 . The family first moved to the town of Athol in Washington County ( New York ). This part was separated in 1813 and became the town of Warrensburg in Warren County (New York). In 1802 the family moved to Bolton, New York. He then settled in 1806 in Sandy Hill , where he Jura studied. There he made the acquaintance of Esek Cowen, who was a fellow student and later became a judge on the Fourth Circuit Court . When Cowen was admitted to the bar and began practicing, Stow continued his studies at Gansevoort & Cowen in Gansevoort's Mills, New York. In 1811 he was admitted to the bar. He began practicing in Elizabethtown, New York. The following years were overshadowed by the British-American War . In 1829 he became postmaster and Essex County treasurer there. In an address given to a Temperance Society in Keeseville, New York in 1834 , he was the first man to advocate legislation to prohibit all traffic in intoxicating liquor, as a beverage. He later lived in Keeseville. From 1838 to 1844 he was a district attorney in Essex County . His tenure was overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 . He later moved to Troy, New York. The Governor of New York Horatio Seymour appointed him the new Attorney General of New York on December 8, 1853 , to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Levi S. Chatfield by the end of the year .

His daughter Evelina Charlotte Stow (1812-1839) married Sewall Sylvester Cutting (1813-1882) in 1836. Their only son was Gardner Stow Cutting (1838-1883).

literature

• Orville Luther Holley: The New York State Register, for 1843 , J.Disturnell, 1843, p. 373
• Orville Luther Holley: The New York State Register, for 1847, J. Disturnell, 1847, p. 83
• The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858, p. 36
• The Rev. Sewall S. Cutting , The New York Times, February 8, 1882

Web links

• Gardner Stow on The Political Graveyard website

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Hay and William Hay, Jr., A History of Temperance in Saratoga County, NY , GM Davison, 1855, p. 27