Abel Godard
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Abel Godard (June 26, 1835 in Richville, St. Lawrence County, New York – July 25, 1891) was an American lawyer, Union Army officer, manufacturer, banker and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Assemblyman Harlow Godard (1804–1896) and Mary Ann (Rich) Godard (1804–1889). He graduated from University of Rochester in 1859, and from Albany Law School in 1861. He married Helen M. Herring (1838–1910), and they had three children.
He fought with the 60th Regiment of New York Volunteers in the American Civil War, taking part in the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Ringgold Gap, Resaca, Dallas and Peachtree Creek. He was honorably discharged as a colonel in September 1864.
He Supervisor of the Town of De Kalb; and a member of the New York State Senate (17th D.) in 1866 and 1867.
He was again Supervisor of the Town of De Kalb from 1879 to 1881; and a member of the New York State Assembly (St. Lawrence County, 1st D.) in 1882 and 1883.
He was buried at the Wayside Cemetery in Richville.
Sources
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA444 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=T7AsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA100 Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators, and Members of the Assembly of the State of New York, in 1867] by S. R. Harlow & H. H. Boone (pg. 100ff)
- [https://archive.today/20130104145029/http://history.rays-place.com/ny/de-kalb-ny.htm History of De Kalb, NY] at Ray's Place
- [http://localhistory.morrisville.edu/sites/unitinfo/godard-60.html Obit] transcribed from the Gouverneur Northern Tribune on August 1, 1891 [with portrait]
External links
- {{Find a Grave|25691027}}
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Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Category:People from De Kalb, New York
Category:University of Rochester alumni
Category:Albany Law School alumni
Category:Town supervisors in New York (state)
Category:Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature