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- Our County and its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by Gates Curtis
Syracuse N.Y., D. Mason & Company, 1894
Charles Nathanial Bixby was born in the town of Norfolk, February 14, 1836.
The boyhood of our subject was spent on the homestead in Norfolk, and was educated in the common schools and old St. Lawrence Academy at Potsdam. He taught school for a number of winters. He commenced the study of law in the office of Brown & Spencer at Ogdensburg, in the spring of 1861, at the same time that Louis Hasbrouck was studying in the same offic
In 1865 he entered Albany Law School, and completing his course was admitted to practice as attorney and counselor in May, 1866. In the fall of 1867 he was admitted to practice in the United States Courts. He was for six months after admittance a clerk in the office of Knowles & Bicknall of Potsdam, and in April, 1867, opened an office in Norwood, where he has since been engaged in practice. In 1869 he was appointed register in bankruptcy for this congressional district, and still holds the office. He has been justice of the peace for ten years and a member of the Board of Education of Norwood Union School and Academy fifteen years, ten years of that time president of the board. He has served as a member of the Board of Village Trustees and has held many minor offices.
He married, June 21, 1869, Mary Ann Lamphire, niece of Mrs. B. G. Baldwin, and they have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, now a musical student of the State Normal School. Mrs. Bixby died October 29. 1884.
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1836 - 1898 (62 years)
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