David H. Abell

David H. Abell (c. 1807 – March 1872 Groveland, Livingston County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Life

Abell was a New York State Canal Appraiser from 1848 to 1850; and a member of the New York State Senate (30th D.) in 1860 and 1861. In January 1869, he was appointed by President Andrew Johnson as U.S. Tax Assessor for the 25th District of New York.

Sources

[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_xLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA442 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 407 and 442)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=qc8NAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA34 Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York] by William D. Murphy (1861; pg. 34ff)
[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1869/01/13/79362012.pdf WASHINGTON; ...NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT] in NYT on January 13, 1869
[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2012/Corning%20NY%20Journal/Corning%20NY%20Journal%201870-1872%20Grayscale/Corning%20NY%20Journal%201870-1872%20Grayscale%20-%200310.pdf Obit] in the Corning Journal on March 21, 1872

{{succession box | before = John B. Halsted | title = New York State Senate
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Category:1800s births

Category:1872 deaths

Category:People from Groveland, New York

Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators

Category:People from Mount Morris, New York

Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature