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Stephen G. Nye

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-03-1879 Republican SD-14 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Stephen Girard Nye
Born: January 30, 1834 in Westfield, New York
Married: Emma M. Hall (m. 1863)
Children: Myrtle and Harriet
Family: A friend (and distant relative) of A. B. Nye
Died: April 2, 1906 in Woodlake, CA

1862-1864: District Attorney, Alameda County
1867-1878: County Judge, Alameda County

  • TEACHING CREDENTIAL: "His first certificate, entitling him to teach 'a common school for one year,' was dated October, 1849, when he was just fifteen years and nine months old."
  • He married his wife one day after he met her.

 

Source: Addresses and Letters of Travel by Stephen Girard Nye and Alfred Bourne Nye