Among other public positions which he held by popular suffrage were supervisor of the town of Rye, 1871 and 1872, member of the State Assembly, 1873 to 1875, and president of the board of trustees of the village of Port Chester. He was also, in the fall of 1876, the Republican candidate for Congress in his district. In August, 1867, he married Ellen M. Abendroth, a daughter of William Philip Abendroth, late of Port Chester. He died at Port Chester on the 28th of June, 1877. He left surviving him his widow and four children -- three (two sons and a daughter) by his first wife and one (a daughter) by his second. His death was universally deplored as a great public loss. He had the entire confidence and respect of all, both as a lawyer and as a citizen. As an advocate his standing was not exceptionally high, but as a prudent and reliable counselor he had no superior among his Westchester cotemporaries.

John A. Husted, for many years an active and influential attorney at Tarrytown, was born at Round Hill, Conn., March 21, 1831. In his youth his parents

moved to Western New York, and in the year 1853, he came to Tarrytown, New York ; and while engaged in teaching school he commenced the study of law with Elijah Yerks, Esq., a lawyer of that village. After a year or two he went into the office of J. Warren Tompkins, at White Plains, New York, and continued his studies until September 1, 1856, when he was duly admitted in the Supreme Court as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, and at once commenced to practice law in Tarrytown. There for a number of years he was engaged in some of the most important ejectment and partition actions ever tried in Westchester Co.