- William C. Crain
William Cullen Crain (
August 31 ,1798 Warren,Herkimer County, New York -March 16 ,1865 ) was an American physician and politician.Life
His father was Rufus Crain, a physician, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for sixteen years, and a near relative of General
Israel Putnam .He entered his father's office as a student of medicine, and practiced for about two years. Then he gave up the practice of medicine, and occupieded himself with agriculture, his landed interests in Warren being considerable.
In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the
Friedrich Adolf Riedesel , and author of the interesting "Journal ofBurgoyne 's Expedition" contained in the archives of the general staff atBerlin .Crain was politically a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school. He was a member from Herkimer County of the
New York State Assembly in 1832, 1845 and 1846, and was Speaker in 1846.He was Sheriff of Herkimer County from 1840 to 1843.
In 1860, he ran unsuccessfully for
Lieutenant Governor of New York . He was many times a delegate toDemocratic National Convention s, and often represented his party in state conventions.ources
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D06E4DD1E30E233A25753C1A9659C946697D6CF] His son's obit in NYT on March 10, 1907
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/warren/richfieldvicinity.html] Bio at Rootsweb
* [http://cjrc.osu.edu/hvd/dbfiles/herkimerco/Herkimer%20County%20Murders.pdf] Herkimer County Crimes listing county officials
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