Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County, New York by Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1895

page 273 in the Charles G. Elliott biography

Charles G. Elliott is President of the Goshen National Bank, which is capitalized at $110,000. This well known and stable financial institution was organized in 1850, and about 1864 was started under its present policy as a national bank. In intervals since 1850 Mr. Elliot has been a public official. He entered the County Clerk's office under his uncle, Nathan Westcott, who was then Clerk of Orange County, …

Judge Horace W. Elliott, father of C.G. was born in Killingworth, Conn., and came to this place about 1802. From that time until his death he was engaged in business here as a druggist. He was a hero of the War of 1812, was an ardent Democrat, and held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Associate County Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. At the close of a long and useful career he died, in 1863, when in his eighty-third year. His wife, Charlotte, a native of Goshen, was the daughter of Hon. David N. Westcott, who was a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, was Colonel of a company of state militia, and served in the Legislature. For several years he was also County Clerk of Orange County. Financially he was well-to-do, possessing valuable tracts of land and other property. He died when about seventy years of age. Mrs. Charlotte Elliott, who was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, departed this life in 1880, when about threescore and ten years of age.

page1511, in the Herbert Gedney biography:

The father of our subject, D. F. Gedney, a native of Newburgh, was District Attorney of Orange County two terms, and County Judge the same length of time. After graduating from Union College, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar. Later he formed a partnership with Nathan Westcott, at Goshen, N.Y., this partnership continuing until the retirement of Mr. Westcott. Mr. Gedney continued alone until 1875, when he took his son Herbert into partnership, the firm becoming D. F. & H. Gedney.

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