William S. Church

Church was born in February 1858 in Riga, New York, as the son of Col. Dennis Church. He attended the common schools; Phillips Academy in 1871 and 1872; Canandaigua Academy from 1873 to 1875; and the Columbia College School of Mines from 1876 to 1879. Then he engaged in farming. He married Helen S. Shields (1863–1960). Church and his wife are interred in Riga.^[1]

He was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 3rd D.) in 1888.

Assemblyman Elihu Church was his grandfather.

• Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1888)

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