William Cornelius Hasbrouck was an American lawyer and politician.
Occupation
politician
Position held
member of the New York State Assembly
Citizenship
United States
Born
August 23, 1800
Died
November 5, 1870
Overview
William Cornelius Hasbrouck (August 23, 1800 – November 5, 1870 Newburgh, Orange County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
He was the first child born to Cornelius Benjamin Hasbrouck (1769–1851) and Jane Kelso Hasbrouck (1774–1836). He was baptized at the New Hurley Reformed Church in Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York. William's two siblings were Benjamin Cornelius Hasbrouck (b. 1803) and Margaret Hasbrouck (b. 1803).
William C. Hasbrouck graduated from Union College in Schenectady and lived for a time in Franklin, Tennessee, where he served as Principal of the academy founded by Bishop Otey. After returning to the North, he briefly worked as Principal of the Farmer's Hall Academy in Goshen in the early 1820s and then studied law with various lawyers in Newburgh, and was admitted to the bar in 1826.
Hasbrouck was Trustee of Newburgh from 1835–1839, and lieutenant and later captain of a local militia at Newburgh called The Village Guard.
