William H. Tobey
William Henry Tobey (1799 Hudson, Columbia County, New York – May 1878) was an American lawyer, banker and politician from New York.
Life[]
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1820, and practiced in New Lebanon. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Columbia Co.) in 1838; Surrogate of Columbia County from 1841 to 1845; and a member of the New York State Senate (11th D.) in 1862 and 1863.
He was a Director of the National Bank of Kinderhook from 1839; and President of the National Union Bank of Kinderhook from 1853 until his death.
Sources[]
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 265, 315 and 443)
- Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and the Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1862 and '63 by William D. Murphy (1863; pg. 111ff)
- The New York State Register by Roger Sherman Skinner (1830; pg. 157)
- The Village of Kinderhook by Capt. Franklin Ellis, transcribed at US Gen Net
Categories:
- 1799 births
- 1878 deaths
- New York (state) state senators
- People from Hudson, New York
- New York (state) Republicans
- Members of the New York State Assembly
- New York (state) Whigs
- 19th-century American politicians
- American bankers
- New York (state) state court judges
- 19th-century American judges
- 19th-century American businesspeople