{{Short description|American politician (1775–1865)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Calvin Fillmore |office = Member of the New York State Assembly |term_start = January 1, 1825 |term_end = December 31, 1825 |predecessor = Samuel Wilkeson |successor = Reuben B. Babcock |constituency = Erie County |birth_date = {{Birth date|1775|4|30}} |birth_place = Bennington County, Vermont |death_date = {{Death date and age|1865|10|22|1775|4|30}} |death_place = East Aurora, New York, US |resting_place = East Aurora Cemetery, East Aurora, New York, US |party = Democratic-Republican<br/>Democratic |spouse = Jerusha Turner (m. 1798) |relations = Nathaniel Fillmore (brother)<br/>Millard Fillmore (nephew) |occupation = Farmer<br/>Businessman }} '''Calvin Fillmore''' (April 30, 1775 – October 22, 1865) was an American farmer and politician from New York. He served as coroner of Erie County, New York and a member of the New York State Assembly, and was an uncle of President Millard Fillmore.
==Life== Fillmore was born in Bennington County, Vermont on December 12, 1775.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} His father, Nathaniel Fillmore Sr., was a farmer and officer in the Green Mountain Boys who was a veteran of the American Revolution.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}}
Calvin Fillmore was educated in Bennington, and became a farmer.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} In 1798, he married Jerusha Turner (d. 1852).{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} Fillmore was close with his brother Nathaniel Fillmore, and in 1798, they moved to an area then located in Onondaga County, New York, which is now in Summerhill, Cayuga County.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}}
During the War of 1812, Fillmore was appointed a captain in the 13th Infantry Regiment of the New York Militia, and took part in several battles in upstate New York and Canada.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} He was promoted to major, and then lieutenant colonel, and commanded the regiment before the end of the war.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} He later served as lieutenant colonel of the militia's 17th Regiment.{{sfn|''Our County and Its People''|page=261}}
In 1819, Nathaniel and Calvin Fillmore and their families moved to Montville, then in the Town of Sempronius, now in Moravia.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} Later they moved to East Aurora, in Erie County.{{sfn|''American Presidential Families''|page=410}} In addition to farming, he kept a tavern and hotel, and owned a sawmill and other businesses.{{sfn|''History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County''|pages=314, 453, 464, 540, 546-547}} He also became involved in the development of the local transportation infrastructure as an original incorporator of the Aurora and Buffalo Railroad.{{sfn|''History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County''|page=542}}
Fillmore was coroner of Erie County, and a deputy U.S. marshal.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}} He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Erie Co.) in 1825,{{sfn|''Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York''|page=66}} elected as a Democratic-Republican. He was later active in the Democratic Party.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 12, 1844 |title=Town of Aurora |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-aurora/159064393/ |work=Buffalo Courier |location=Buffalo, New York |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
He died in East Aurora on October 22, 1865, and was buried at East Aurora Cemetery.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}}
U.S. President Millard Fillmore was his nephew.{{sfn|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''|page=812}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== *{{cite book |last1=Brogan |first1=Hugh |last2=Mosley |first2=Charles |date=1993 |title=American Presidential Families |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJF1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22calvin+fillmore%22+%22aurora%22+%22sempronius%22 |location=Stroud, England |publisher=Alan Sutton |isbn=9780750905824 |ref={{sfnRef|''American Presidential Families''}}}} *{{cite book |last=Cutter |first=William Richard |date=1912 |title=Genealogical and Family History of Western New York |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMQLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA812 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing |ref={{sfnRef|''Genealogical and Family History of Western New York''}}}} *{{cite book |last=New York State Legislature |date=1852 |title=Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York |volume=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWsbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA66 |location=Albany, NY |publisher=C. Van Benthuysen |ref={{sfnRef|''Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York''}}}} *{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Henry Perry |date=1884 |title=History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0Y_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA547 |location=Syracuse, NY |publisher=D. Mason & Co. |ref={{sfnRef|''History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County''}}}} *{{cite book |last=White |first=Truman C. |date=1898 |title=Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxIzAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA261 |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Boston History Company |ref={{sfnRef|''Our County and Its People''}}}}
==Further reading== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=oDd_gOuSEDIC&pg=PA14 ''Millard Fillmore''] by Robert J. Scarry (2001; {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4340-6}} ; pg. 14f and 22) *[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA202 ''The New York Civil List''] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 202 and 273; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = Samuel Wilkeson | title = New York State Assembly <br>Erie County | years = 1825 | after = Reuben B. Babcock}} {{s-end}}
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