William Kirkpatrick
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William Kirkpatrick (November 7, 1769 - September 2, 1832) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (near Zion), he graduated from Princeton College in 1788, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and commenced practice in Whitestown, Oneida County, New York in 1795. He moved to Salina (now a part of Syracuse), Onondaga County in 1806 and continued the practice of medicine. He subsequently became superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs, and was elected as a Republican to the Tenth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1807 to March 3, 1809. He was again superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs from 1810 to 1831, and died in Salina in 1832. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse.
