Samuel Rexford

Samuel Rexford (October 14, 1776 Claverack, then in Albany Co., now in Columbia County, New York - February 24, 1857 Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was in the lumber business. He was Supervisor of the Town of Sidney in 1826 and 1827.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Delaware Co.) in 1823.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1829 to 1832, sitting in the 52nd, 53rd, 54th and 55th New York State Legislatures.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 127f, 144, 199 and 299; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• History of Sidney, on-line version of The History of Delaware County by W. W. Munsell
• Death notice in Annual Obituary Notes of Eminent Persons, for 1857 by Nathan Crosby (Boston, 1858; pg. 284f)
• Rexford genealogy

External links

• His house (demolished 1937) in Images of America: Sidney by Erin Andrews and the Sidney Historical Association (2010; ISBN 978-0-7385-7297-0 ; pg. 28)