BIOGRAPHIES
submitted by Douglas C. Huggett
JEHIEL HOWELL
HALSEY
Political
Graveyard:
United States Representative
from New York, 1829 - 1831. Member of the New York State
Senate 1832.
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress:
Halsey, Jehiel Howell, 1788 - 1867
Halsey, Jehiel Howell, (son of Silas Halsey and brother
of Nicoll Halsey), a Representative from New York, born
Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. , October
7, 1788; moved to Herkimer County in 1793 with his
parents, who settled in what is now the town of Lodi,
Seneca County; attended the common schools, engaged in in
agricultural pursuits, county clerk of Seneca County 1819
-1821; elected to the twenty first Congress (March 4,
1829-March 3 1831); chairman Commitee on Accounts (Twenty
First Congress); resumed agricultural pursuits, member of
the State senate 1832 -1835; surrogate of Seneca County
1837-1843; supervisor of the town of Lodi 1845 - 1846;
died in Lodi, Seneca County, N.Y. , December 5 , 1867;
interment in West Lodi Cemetery.
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