Fenton, Reuben Eaton

Life Span
to
Full name
Reuben Eaton Fenton
Place of Birth
Carroll, NY
Burial Place
Jamestown, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
3
Family
George Fenton (father), Elsie Owen Fenton (mother), Elizabeth Scudder (wife) 
Other Education
Freedonia Academy (NY)
Occupation
Politician
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Republican
Liberal Republican
Government
US Senate
US House of Representatives
Governor
Local government
Date Event
In upstate New York, state militia march to suppress anti-rent resistance to evictions.
With impressive ceremony in Brooklyn, 3000 Long Island veterans are presented with service medals
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Date Title
George Alfred Townsend, "The Obsequies in Washington," April 19, 1865
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