Crider - McDowell Family Tree

He was a farmer at Lebanon, Connecticut; a surveyor and engineer for some thirty years; a member of the Connecticut assembly in 1840, and of the senate in 1855 (republican); a judge of probate (1847-61); justice of the peace (1840-70), during which time there was no lawyer in the place; and notary public some twenty years; one of three commissioners in the affairs on the Mohegan Indians in Connecticut (1860-70), and sole commissioner of those of the Niantic Indians at his own discretion (1868-70), appointed to the first charge by Gov. Buckingham, and to the second by the legislature. He has been for years general arbitrator of differences and difficulties over a large surrounding district. He was also for several years associated with Gov. Ellsworth and Hon. John T. Norton, as a commissioner on The Retreat for the Insane at Hartford.