BIOGRAPHY: Adelbert P. Rich; Cato, Cayuga co., New York

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING CITIZENS OF CAYUGA
COUNTY NEW YORK
BOSTON
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
1894

ADELBERT P. RICH, attorney-at-law, was born in Cato, this county,  May 16,
1860, and  is the eldest son of Frank and Frances W.  (Petty) Rich.  For
three generations the heads of the family have been engaged in the practice
of law. The grandfather, George R. Rich, was a lawyer in practice at Cato,
as was also his son Frank, father of the subject of this biographical
notice. The father and grandfather were Loan Commissioners for the county
for many years, and were well known and highly respected. Frank Rich served
during the war as Captain of Company H, One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment,
New York State Volunteers.

 Adelbert P. Rich received his education at the union school and academy at
Cato, and at a private school, after which he read law in the office of his
father, being admitted to the bar in the spring of 1882, and locating his
office for practice in his native town. In 1883 he was elected Special
County Judge, serving for three years in that capacity, and at the end of
his term of office was elected District Attorney, and served six years in
that office. In 1884 he moved to Auburn, and engaged in the practice of his
profession, first with Mr. John A. Dutton as a partner, and second, the
former connection having been dissolved, with Mr. E. Clarence Aiken, with
whom he is associated at the present time. Mr. Rich was President of the
Board of Health in Cato Village in 1881 and 1882, during the small-pox
epidemic at that place, and was for several years a member of the Board of
Health of the city of Auburn, and during his residence in Cato, from 1881 to
1884, was a member of the Board of Education. He has also  been  a  member
and Master of Cato Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Mr. Rich is an ardent Republican,
and has served several times as a member of the County Committee. For the
last ten years he has been President of the Cato Wagon Manufacturing
Company, but devotes the greater part of his time to his large legal
practice.

 Mr. Rich was married August 7, 1881, to Miss Ida M. Chase, of Cato, and
has five children; namely, Bertha, Frank C., Laura E., Eugene M., and Harold
R. Rich. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rich are members of the First Baptist Church of
Auburn.

 Mr. Rich has made an enviable record for so young a man. The several
positions of trust and responsibility to which he has been called have been
filled in a manner reflecting the highest credit upon himself, proving that
the confidence of the people which was freely given to him, and the trust
reposed in his abilities, were not unworthily bestowed.