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  Silvester, Peter H.
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NamePeter H. Silvester
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Coxsackie, New York , United States
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Born February 17, 1807
DiedNovember 29, 1882 (75 years)
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Sep 11, 2016 09:32pm
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InfoSILVESTER, Peter Henry, (grandson of Peter Silvester), a Representative from New York; born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., February 17, 1807; attended Kinderhook Academy, and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and practiced his profession in Coxsackie, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); retired and lived on one of his farms in Coxsackie, Greene County, N.Y., until his death on November 29, 1882; interment in Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y.


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