John B. Gedney
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Life
He was a member of the Gedney familyGedney family
The Gedneys were among the original settlers of Salem, Massachusetts. The family patriarch, John Gedney , sailed in 1636 out of Yarmouth, England on the . One of his sons, Bartholomew, has the dubious distinction of being one of the judges who presided over the infamous witch trials. ...
, and lived at White Plains
White Plains, New York
White Plains is a city and the county seat of Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located in south-central Westchester, about east of the Hudson River and northwest of Long Island Sound...
, Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...
. He married Ann McFarquhar (d. 1890).
He was one of the first three Inspectors of State Prisons
New York State Prison Inspector
The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. At the New York state election, 1847, three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every year one Inspector would be elected to a...
elected on the Whig ticket in 1847
New York state election, 1847
The 1847 New York state election was held on November 2, 1847, to elect the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, three Canal Commissioners and three Inspectors of State Prisons, as well as all members of...
under the New York State Constitution of 1846, and drew the one-year term, being in office in 1848.
Sources
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jdathey/descendants_of_john_gedney.htm Gedney genealogy, at RootsWeb
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 45; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E3DD113BE533A25756C1A9669D94619ED7CF His wife's death notice, in NYT on October 16, 1890