De Witt Clinton Littlejohn

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Dewitt Clinton Littlejohn (February 7, 1818 - October 27, 1892) was a brigadier general in the Union Army and a United States Representative from New York during the Civil War. Born in Bridgewater, Oneida County, he pursued an academic course and engaged in mercantile pursuits and in the manufacture of flour at Oswego. He was mayor of Oswego in 1849 and 1850 and was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1853 to 1855, in 1857, from 1859 to 1861, and in 1866, 1867, 1870, and 1871; he was speaker from 1859 to 1861 and in 1866, 1867, 1870, and 1871.

During the Civil War, Littlejohn served as colonel of the One Hundred and Tenth New York Volunteer Infantry. He resigned February 3, 1863 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1865). During that Congress he was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Littlejohn was not a candidate for renomination in 1864, and was brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers on March 13, 1865. Littlejohn wanted to afford Oswego the growth possible by a rail connection to a major port. In 1868, he organized the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad (NY&OM), a route traversing much of New York State on its way to New York City.^[1] He was again a member of the State assembly in 1884, and in 1892 he died in Oswego. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery.