Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Day, Erasmus W. October 19, 1815 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net September 21, 2008, 2:50 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Day, Erasmus W., Schuyler, is one of the notable men of Herkimer county. He was born October 19, 1815, and has been an active man all his life. He has always been a prominent farmer, and has been engaged also in mercantile lines. In public life he has been prominent in Schuyler. From 1840 to 1846 he was deputy sherriff, was supervisor of the town for several years, and was representative to Albany in 1869. In 1838 he married Mary Ann Root, a daughter of Captain Root, who was celebrated in the War of 1812. They have three children, Warren E., Sheldon R. and Mrs. J. D. Leland, of Washington, D.C. The grandfather of Mr. Day was commissary in the Revolutionary War, and his father, Dr. Warren Day, was surgeon in the War of 1812. His son, Dr. Warren E. Day, was a surgeon in the late war, and for several years after the close of the war he continued in the employ of the government. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/day442gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb