Person:Lansing Wetmore (1)

"The Hon. Lansing Wetmore was born at Whitestown, N. Y., on the 28th of August, 1792, and died in Warren Pa., on th 15th day of November, 1857. ... In the year 1815 Lansing Wetmore emigrated from the place of his birth, where he had received a good common school eduction, to the headwater of the Little Brokenstraw, in Warren county, Pa. There, in 1816, he married Caroline, daughter of Abraham S. Ditmars. His wife survived him until June, 1878. His mother wa Aurelia, daughter of Judge Hugh White, one of the settlers of Whitestown, a Western New York was called om 1784.

"After living for a while at Pine Grove, he moved his family in 1820 to Warren, where and in the vicinity of which he resided until his death. On the 25th of September, 1819, soon after the separate organization of Warren county, he was appointed its first prothonotary by Governor Findlay, which office, together with those of register and recorder of deeds, and clerk of the several courts, he held until the spring of 1821. On the 23d of January, 1824, he was again appointed by Governor Shulze to the several offices of prothonotary, recorder, register, etc., in which he continued until the year 1830. About the year 1831 ... he was admitted to the bar, and he continued in the practice of law from that time until his retirement to his farm in Conewango in 1842. For a number of years between 1825 and 1830 he was interested in the publication of the Warren Gazette, in which enterprise he expended considerable time and money. In the fall of 1851 he was elected one of the associated judges of the county, an faithfully and ally discharged the duties of that office for his term of five years. The latter years of his life were devoted to agricultural porsuits. in which he always felt a deep interest, and to the advancement of which he contributed perhaps more than any one else in Warren county."

         John S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wetmore, James Carnahan. The Wetmore Family of America, and its Collateral Branches: with Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Notices. (Albany, N. Y.: Munsell & Rowland, 1861).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Schenck, John S, and W. S. (William S.) Rann. History of Warren County, Pennsylvania: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. (Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887)
   656-658.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Find A Grave.

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