- Ulysses F. Doubleday
Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (
December 15 ,1792 -March 11 ,1866 ) was a U.S. Representative fromNew York .Born in
Otsego County, New York , Doubleday received a limited schooling. Learned the art of printing and worked as a printer in Cooperstown, Utica, and Albany, New York.He served at Sackets Harbor in the War of 1812.He established the Saratoga Courier at Ballston Spa.He moved toAuburn, New York , where he published the Cayuga Patriot 1819-1839.Doubleday was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (
March 4 ,1831 -March 3 ,1833 ).He was appointed inspector of Auburn Prison in 1834.Doubleday was elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress (
March 4 ,1835 -March 3 ,1837 ).He engaged in agricultural pursuits inScipio, New York from 1837 to 1846.He moved to New York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits 1846-1860.He died onMarch 11 ,1866 , inBloomington, Illinois .He was interred in the Bloomington Township Old City Cemetery,Bloomington, Illinois .He was the father of
Thomas D. Doubleday andAbner Doubleday , Civil War general.References
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