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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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t ten years ofage the boy had an opportunity to see something of the CivilWar, since he spent the latter part of 1861 and the early part of1862 with the Eighty-fifth Regiment of New York Volunteers,of which his father was surgeon. He was prepared for collegeat Angelica Academy, and was graduated at Yale in 1872. Heserved as school commissioner of the First District, AlleganyCounty, New York, until 1876. On April 7 of that year he wasadmitted to the bar, and at once became a member of the firmof Richardson, Flenagin & Smith, at Angelica. During the nextfour years he took an active part in the work of the DistrictAttorneys office, his partner, Mr. Flenagin, being DistrictAttorney. He was attorney for the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad Com-pany during the construction of the road between Olean andRochester, and for its lessee, the Buffalo, New York and Phila-delphia Railroad Company, from 1881 until 1887. He was presi-dent and general counsel of the Alleghany Central Railroad from 318
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FKANK SULLIVAN SMITH 319 its formation in 1881 until its consolidation with the Lackawannaand Pittsburg in 1883, and was vice-president and general counselof the latter until December, 1884. In the spring of 1887 the trustees of Cornell University in-vited him to take charge of its Law School, as dean of thefaculty. He declined the offer, preferring to remain in theactive practice of his profession. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in1884, and secretary of the Republican State Committee from1887 until 1891. He was general counsel of the Scioto Valleyand New England Railroad Company from its formation untilits absorption by the Norfolk and Western in 1890; attorney forthe receivers of the Richmond and Dansville Railroad Companyfrom 1893 until 1894; and has been vice-president and generalcounsel of the Central New York and Western Railroad Com-pany since its formation. He has been successively a memberof the firms, at Angelica, of Richardson, Flenagin & Smith,

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