B. F. Angel
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Benjamin Franklin Angel (1815-1894) was a lawyer and politican from Genesco, New York. He was born in Otsego County in 1815. In his early youth he went to Genesco and was admitted to the bar at the age of nineteen years. At twenty-two he was made Surrogate of Livingston County, and held the office for eight years. In 1853 he went to the Sandwhich Islands as United States consul[1] .
He served as U.S. Minister to Sweden and Norway between 1857-1861 for the Buchanan administration. In 1861 Lincoln was elected and a member from the Republican party was to be nominated for the minister resident post to Sweden. As America prepared itself for Civil War, B.F. Angel, wrote to his friend, the soon to be Secreterary of State, William H. Seward in January 1861 and asserted his loyalty to the United States and the new president.[2] He was succeeded by Jacob S. Haldeman. He returned to America in the fall of 1862, and with the exception of being a delegate to the Chicago convention that nominated Gen. Mclellan for the presidency of 1864, he did not again take an active part in politics. He died at the age of 79 years[1].