Who was Sanford W Smith of Chatham, NY?

Question

The firestation is named after him.

Answer 1

SMITH, Sanford W., p. o. Chatham, N. Y., was born in Kinderhook, N. Y., August 19, 1869. His father was Henry Smith, a native of Chatham, and a carpenter and millwright and later a merchant in Chatham. His wife was Rachel Shaw, and, beside the subject of this sketch, their children were Ellen C., Mary L., Robert H., Mona, and Jennie, the latter two of whom died in infancy. Henry Smith died in 1895. Sanford W. Smith received his preparatory education in the district schools and at Chatham High School, and pursued his legal studies at the Cornell University Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1890, and since then has been in practice in Chatham. For four years he was town clerk of Chatham, and in 1895 served as clerk for the judiciary committee of the State Assembly; was deputy clerk of the Assembly in 1896, and assistant journal clerk in 1898-1900. At the general election held in November, 1900, he was elected member of Assembly for Columbia county. He is well known as a prominent Mason. He became a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 98, in 1893, and was master thereof in 1898-99; district deputy grand master for the fourteenth district of the State in 1899-1900; is a member of the Scottish Rite bodies at Albany, having taken the thirty-second degree at the Albany Sovereign Consistory, and is a member of Cyprus Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Albany. He is also a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 95, Knights of Pythias, of Chatham, and during the years 1898-99 was deputy grand chancellor for the twenty-fourth district of the State. He is at present a member of the law firm of Gardenier & Smith. He was married to Maude P., daughter of Albert G. Harding. They have two daughters, Doris H. and Helen Mary.
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Smith, Sanford W. (1869-1929) — of Chatham, Columbia County, N.Y. Born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., August 19, 1869, reportedly in the same house where President Martin Van Buren was born in 1782. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Columbia County, 1900; member of New York state senate, 1906-08 (24th District 1906, 25th District 1907-08); Judge of New York Court of Claims, 1918-27; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924; Justice of New York Supreme Court 3rd District, 1928. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Knights of Pythias. Died, of a heart attack, in Chatham, Columbia County, N.Y., January 24, 1929. Interment at Chatham Cemetery, Chatham, N.Y.

Answer 2

He was an extremely active and devoted volunteer fireman in the Ocean Fire Co. of Chatham, NY and in 1930, after his death, the Sanford W, Smith Hook & Ladder Co. of Chatham, NY was formed and is a very active volunteer fire company in the Village of Chatham.

Answer 3

a pennsylvania mayor who happen to be born in Chatham ny