Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Mathews, Chauncey January 12, 1837 - ************************************************ 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 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 February 15, 2009, 9:59 am Author: Hardin & Willard Mathews, Chauncey, Litchfield, was born here January 12, 1837. He resigned the office of loan commissioner to accept that of supervisor of Litchfield, which he held for six years. He served as chairman of the board of supervisors during his first term. While acting as supervisor he was nominated for member of Assembly for the Herkimer district and was defeated hy Myron A. McKee. He was a son of Samuel Mathews, born in this town October 31, 1802. He died on the same farm where he was born which was settled by his father, Samuel, a native of North Brookfield, Mass., who settled about 1795 in Cedarville. 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/mathews913gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb