1836 - Entered Foreign Service under Lewis Cass (Min. to France)
1846-47 - Member, Board of Education
1848 - Promoter, Plank RR Co., Board of Water Commissioner
1849-50 - Alderman (?)
1853 - One of first members of Board of Water Comm.
1855-1856 - Mayor of Detroit
1857-1858 - State Senator
Education
Columbia College, 1830, lawyer
Notes
Democrat
Occupation
1845 - Founder of State Bank, Michigan
1846 - Promoter and trustee of Elmwood Cemetery
1855-1856 - Mayor of Detroit
1857-1858 - State Senator
(History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan, by Silas Farmer, 1890)
Father
Benjamin Ledyard
Mother
Susan French Livingston Ledyard
Spouse
Matilda Frances Cass, m. 1839,
Children
Elizabeth Cass
Henry B.
Susan Livingston
Lewis Cass
Matilda Spencer
