Walter L SESSIONS BIo Chautauqua CO NY
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Walter Loomis SESSIONS was born at Brandon, V T. October 4, 1820., and, in 1835, his father (John) moved to Chautauqua county, N. Y., and settled in an unbroken wilderness with his five boys and two daughters, of whom Walter L. was the second son. He lived on the farm till he was of age, learning all about the out-door business incident to new country. The children were educated to believe in and practice constant, daily industry, the mostrigid economy, temperance and honesty in all things.
He was educated in the common schools and the academy at Westfield, N. Y.
He taught school several terms, and was superintendent of schools many years.
He began the study of law soon after he was of age, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of New York, which permits a lawyer to practice in all the courts of the State. Has also been admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.
The practice of law has been his business, including some attention to farming.
In 1853 and 1854 he was a member of New York Assembly, and in the latter year was chairman of the committee of ways and means, being the youngest man who ever held that position in our Legislature.
In 1860 and 1861, and in 1866 and 1867 he was a member of New York State Senate, and chairman of the finance committee of that body for the four years he was a member.
The position of chairman of the ways and means and finance committees of the New York Legislature is the same as in Congress, regarded as the most responsible positions in those bodies. In 1870, 1872 and 1884, he was elected to the 42d, 43d and 44th Congresses, as a republican, and served six years in the House, and, in those six years, he was absent only nine days from his seat while the House was in session.
Since his retirement from Congress he has been actively engaged in his profession, trying some of the most important civil and criminal cases prosecuted in his county of 78,000 population.
He is as sound to-day in bodily and mental health as in his boyhood days.
His grandfather, Walter Sessions, who was born July 27, 1768, at Union, Connecticut, used to say, "that he never knew one of the name who was ever in the poor-house or committed a crime."
He was one of the most scrupulously honest men in all the relations of life. W. L.'s mother used to say that John Sessions, the father of his grandfather, who was born at Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1746, "was one of the grandest men, physically and honorably, she ever saw." He died at Brandon, Vt. At the age of twenty-seven he married Mary R. Terry, daughter of the Hon. Silas Terry of his county. They had one son and two daughters. The daughters were educated at Elmira and Vassar colleges and his son at Hamilton College. The daughters are distinguished for considerable writing ability. The oldest married the Hon. C. P. Ingersoll, of his county, and the other (Edith) married Mr. Horace E. Tupper. They both live in New York city. His son, who is twenty-four years old, has been admitted to the Supreme Court and is practicing law in New York city. His office is in the new World building. His name is Walter L. Sessions, Jr. He seems to have very natural abilities in the line of his profession There are six lawyers in his family: His brother, L. B. Sessions, and his son, two nephews, Walter L. and his son.
Letter;
WALTER L. SESSIONS TO JOHN W. SESSIONS.
PANAMA, CHAUTAUQUE CO., N. Y., |
March 11, 1859.|
What information I send you I derive from my father, grandfather and family records.
My grandfather, Walter Sessions, was born at Union, Conn., July 22, 1768, and the information he gave me, that was not within his own knowledge, he received from his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, all of whom lived within his own recollection, with whom he conversed on the subject, and received records from them in reference thereto. His great-grandfather was born in 1697, and lived until my grandfather was nearly of age.
The following record is given by Walter Sessions, who was born at Union, Conn., July 22, 1768:
John Sessions was born in England in 1672, in what borough is not remembered. He came to Boston, Mass., in 1694, as secretary of a governor of Massachusetts, appointed by the Crown. In 1696 married Hannah Pierrepont of Roxbury, Mass., by whom he had three sons -- Nathaniel, John, and the name of the third forgotten.
Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Mass., 1697. He married a Miss Waterman of Rhode Island, by whom he had six sons -- Amasa, Darius, Simeon, Alexander, Abner and Abijah. Amasa, the eldest, was born at Roxbury in 1721; married Hannah Miller of Rhode Island, by whom he had seven sons -- John, Samuel, Nathaniel, Amasa, Robert, Squire and Abner.
John, the oldest, was born at Roxbury June 6, 1746 (whose father, Amasa, soon after moved to Pomfret, Conn.). He (John) married Alice Goodell of Pomfret, by whom he had seven children -- Walter (my grandfather), John, Alanson and Harvey; also Hannah, Polly and Alice.
Walter (oldest son of John) was born at Union, Conn., in 1768, and married Anna Loomis, who was born at Union, Conn., January 9, 1767. She was the daughter of Daniel Loomis of Union. They had four sons -- John, Loomis, Walter and (???).
John S. Sessions (my father) was born at Union, Conn., March 20, 1797. In 1801 my grandfather moved from Union, Conn., to Vernon, Oneida county, N. Y., and in 1808 thence to Rutland county, Vt., where I was born, and my father moved from Rutland to this county in 1835. Etc.
Walter L Sessions
died in Panama, N.Y., on May 27, 1896
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