Carlos Philander Scovil (February 26, 1804 – April 25, 1904)[1] was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was born in Collinsville, Lewis County, New York and died in Lowville, Lewis Co., New York.
Lifeedit
He was the son of Hezekiah Scovil (1779–1855) and Catherine (Brown) Scovil (1783–1850). He studied law in Collinsville, Turin and Martinsburg (then the county seat of Lewis County), and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He practiced law in partnership with Francis Seger in 1831.
He was Clerk of Lewis County from 1832 to 1840. On August 18, 1834, he married Mary Rockwell and they had two children. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Lewis Co.) in 1842.
He was First Judge and Surrogate of the Lewis County Court from 1864 to 1874. He removed to Lowville, the county seat since 1864. He retired from the bench at the end of 1874 when he reached the constitutional age limit.
He was buried at the Lowville Rural Cemetery.
His daughter Christine Kellogg Scovil (b. 1840) was married to Assemblyman Henry A. Phillips (b. 1834).
Sourcesedit
^"Oldest Ex-Assemblyman Dead" (PDF). The New York Times. 1904-04-28. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 134f, 145, 226, 302 and 389; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
ONE HUNDRED YEARS in The Syracuse Journal on February 27, 1904
OLDEST EX-ASSEMBLYMAN DEAD in NYT on April 28, 1904
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 434)
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