ROWLAND DAY

Day, Rowland (1779-1853), a Representative from New York; born in Chester, Hampden, Mass., March 6, 1779; moved with his parents to Skaneateles, N.Y., in 1805, and from thence to Moravia, N.Y., in 1810; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the State assembly in 1816 and 1817; member of the convention to revise the constitution of the State of New York in 1821; held several local offices in Sempronius, where he resided; elected as a Crawford Republicans candidate to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); resumed mercantile pursuits; died in Moravia, Cayuga County, N.Y., December 23, 1853; interment in Indian Mound Cemetery.
Parents: Jacob Day, Abigail Leonard
Spouse: Nancy Ely
Born: West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Marriage: 21 Feb 1811
Children Sex Birth
William H Day M 14 Jan 1812

Sources:
United States Federal Census
Massachusetts Vital Records
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell