Samuel Wescott

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Samuel Wescott
In office
May 4, 1857 – May 2, 1858
Preceded by David Stout Manners
Succeeded by Dudley S. Gregory
Residence Jersey City, New Jersey

Samuel Wescott was the tenth Mayor of Jersey City. He succeeded David Stout Manners. Wescott served from May 4, 1857 to May 2, 1858. He was succeeded by Dudley S. Gregory.

Wescott incorporated the "Mutual Benefit Life and Insurance Company of the County of Hudson" in 1860. His partners included Dudley S. Gregory, John Van Vorst, Edmund Kingsland, Garret Sip, John M. Cornelison, Hery F. Cox, Peter Bentley, Augustus A. Hardenburgh, and Jonathan D. Miller.[1]

Wescott donated land in Cannelton (now Darlington), Pennsylvania for the construction of St. Rose Catholic Church circa 1861[2]

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  1. ^ (1860) Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: Secretary of State, 380-385. 
  2. ^ Bausman, Jospeh H. (1904). History of Beaver County Pennsylvania and its Centennial Celebration. New York, NY: Knickerbocker Press, 945-946. 

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