G. Hilton Scribner

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Gilbert Hilton Scribner
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Born (1831-04-23)April 23, 1831
Yonkers, New York
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Yonkers, New York
Title Secretary of State of New York
Term 1872 to 1873
Predecessor Homer Augustus Nelson
Successor Diedrich Willers, Jr.
Relatives Charles Scribner, cousin

Gilbert Hilton Scribner (April 23, 1831 – January 5, 1910) was an American lawyer and politician who was Secretary of State of New York from 1872 to 1873.[1] He was a fifth-cousin of the publisher Charles Scribner.

Life

A resident of Yonkers, New York,[2] he was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Co., 1st D.) in 1871.[3] He was President of the Belt Line Street Railroad of New York.[4] In 1884, he authored an article titled Where Did Life Begin? in Popular Science.[5] He married Sarah Woodbury Pettingill (born 1835).[6]

He died at his residence "Inglehurst", on Pine Street, in Yonkers.[7]

Family

His daughter Sarah Marguerite (b. October 8, 1876) was an artist, poet and storywriter. She married (October 8, 1902) the third son of George Hamilton Frost, Edwin Hunt Frost (b. Chicago August 23, 1874).[8]

References

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  5. Popular Science Monthly (1884)
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Political offices
Preceded by New York Secretary of State
1872–1873
Succeeded by
Diedrich Willers, Jr.

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