Jonah Sanford

   Death of Jonah Sanford.
 The Potsdam Courier and Freeman of the
9th contains an obituary of Hon. Jonah Sanford,
who died at Hopkinton on the 25th of December
ult., in the 78th year of his age. Mr. Sanford
was born in Cornwall, Vt. He married and
moved to Hopkinton in this county in 1811
where he continued to reside till the day of his
death. He represented this county in the State
Assembly in 1829 and 1830, and served
the unexpired term of the late Hon. Silas
Wright, in Congress, from December, 1830,
to March 3d, 1831. He was one of
the Associate Judges of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas of this county during a part of the
terms of Judges Fine and Allen. When our
late rebellion opened upon the astonished coun-
try, it aroused the military zeal and fanned afresh
the undying patriotism of General Sanford. Old
as he then was, he sought and obtained leave to
raise a regiment of Volunteers for his country's
service, and in the Fall of 1861 commenced the
arduous task, which he prosecuted with such
vigor that on the first day of February 1862, the
92d regiment was organized and left the county
of St. Lawrence to be mustered into the service
of the United States with General S. at its head
as Colonel. But strong and active, he was
not exempt from the laws of his being, and ill
health induced by age and great exertion, com-
pelled him to leave his regiment in Virginia, and
he returned to his home with impaired health
which he never regained.
 General Sanford, with his own hands, reclaimed
a farm from the forest, paid for its soil, reared,
schooled and provided for a large and influential
family, devoted time and means to all public
and benevolent objects within his reach, dis-
charged with integrity and acceptably, high and
responsible public trusts, and preserved to an
old age a name of which none can think but as of
a friend. The deceased was one of the few now
remaining early settlers of this county--a class
of menof whom we may well be proud, and
whose influence for good still survives. He was
an intimate friend and associate of Gov. Wright,
Judge Fine, Bishop Perkins, Judge Allen, Judge
Willis, Judge Clark, Preston King and many
others who might be named and who have left
for their final reward, as well as of a small
number still living of that venerable and worthy
class who are now setting their house in order
for their departure.