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WHITTLESEY, Frederick, jurist, born in Washington, Connecticut, 12 June, 1799 ; died in Rochester, New York, 19 September, 1851. He was graduated at Yale in 1818, and was admitted to the bar in Utica, New York, in 1821. He settled in Rochester in 1822, was a member of the " Morgan committee," and conducted an anti-Masonic political newspaper in the canvass of 1828. fie was treasurer of Monroe county in 1829-'30, representative in congress from New York in 1831-'5, vice-chancellor of the 8th judicial district of the state in 1839-'47, and judge of the supreme court of New York in 1847-'8. Judge Whittlesey was professor of law at Genesee college in 1850-'1. He published an address that he delivered at Rochester, 4 July, 1842, and pamphlets.
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