Henry C. Wetmore

He was the son of Apollos Russell Wetmore and Mary (Carmer) Wetmore (1798–1876. He worked in his father's hardware store. In 1846, he married Mary Jane Bird, and they had four children. About 1851, he removed to Fishkill, New York, and engaged in literary pursuits.

In 1854, he published Hermit's Dell; from the Diary of A Penciller. He contributed prose and poetry to newspapers and magazines, among them Harper's Magazine.

He was a Know Nothing member of the New York State Senate (11th D.) in 1859. William G. Mandeville had been elected to this seat in 1857 for a two-year term (1858–1859). Mandeville was appointed as Postmaster of Stuyvesant Falls, New York in June 1858. He executed his oath and bond, and sent them to the U.S. Postal Department but, before his commission could have been issued, declined to take the office, too late realising that the acceptance of this appointment would vacate his Senate seat. Wetmore had himself nominated, and elected at the State election in November 1858, claiming a vacancy, although no notice of such a special election had been given by the Secretary of State, and no candidates were nominated by the other parties. Mandeville appeared at the beginning of the session of 1859, and took his seat. After much debate, Mandeville's seat was declared vacant on March 16, and Wetmore was seated on April 5, thus occupying the seat for two weeks until the adjournment on April 19, 1859.

He was buried at the New York Marble Cemetery.

• [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. 321 and 442)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=eYkDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA71 Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1859] by William D. Murray (pg. 71f)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=K5UlAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA125 Documents of the Senate (82nd Session)] (1859; Vol. 2, No. 104 and 105, arguments for and against seating Wetmore)
• [http://newsfeed.rootsweb.com/th/read/WETMORE/2001-02/0983423630 Wetmore genealogy] at RootsWeb
• [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/page1/joris.htm Carmer genealogy] at RootsWeb
• [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1881/01/22/103393092.pdf DEATH OF MR. A. R. WETMORE] in NYT on January 22, 1881

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