The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ouck was appointed by PresidentPolk to the office of assistant treasurer in the city ofNew York, and he continued to hold that positionuntil he was removed by President Taylor, in
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ouck was appointed by PresidentPolk to the office of assistant treasurer in the city ofNew York, and he continued to hold that positionuntil he was removed by President Taylor, in May,1849. He then retired to his farm in Schohariecounty, where he passed the last ten years of hislife. Gov. Bouck died on his farm Apr. 19, , Silas, governor of New York (1845-47), was born at Amherst, Mass., May 24, 1795, adescendant of Samuel Wright, who came to Bostonin 1630 and to Northampton in 1654. His father,Silas, a farmer, tanner, and shoemaker, removed in1796 to Weybridge, Addison Co., Vt., and was laterin the legislature. At fourteen the boy entered anacademy at Middlebury, Vt., and by teaching in thewinters made his way through the college there,graduating in 1815. He read law at Sandy Hill,Washington Co., Vt., was admitted to the bar inJanuary, 1819, and in October settled at Canton, Co., N. Y., which he never left exceptfor his official duties. He was made surrogate in. February, 1821, and went through all the militiagrades up to brigadier-general in 1827. His rise inpolitics was equally rapid, beginning with the statesenate in 1823-27, where he gained much repute asa debater and financier, but opposed DeWitt Clin-ton and helped to remove him from his importantpost as canal commissioner. In congress, 1827-29,he favored a committee looking toward the abolitionof slavery in the district, and was a member of thatwhich framed the tariff of 1828, which in later lifehe considered too high. He was re-elected, but re-signed in 1829 to succeed W.
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