Editing Pompey, New York (section)

==Notable people==
* [[William Barnes Sr.]] (1824 &ndash; 1913), attorney and author<ref>{{cite book|last=New York State Bar Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuI8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA713|title=Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting|date=1913|publisher=The Argus Company|location=Albany, NY|pages=713–716|ref={{sfnRef|''Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting''}}|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*[[Victory Birdseye]] (1782 &ndash; 1853), lawyer, postmaster and congressman
*[[Jason W. Briggs]] (1821 &ndash; 1899), leader in the early history of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]]
*[[William George Fargo]] (1818 &ndash; 1881), founder of [[Wells-Fargo]] and mayor of [[Buffalo, New York]]
*[[Frank Hiscock]] (1834 &ndash; 1914), member of the [[United States Congress]]
*[[L. Harris Hiscock]] (1824 &ndash; 1867), brother of [[Frank Hiscock]]; [[New York State Assembly]] member and [[Onondaga County, New York|Onondaga County]] Surrogate Court judge
*[[Leonard Jerome]] (1817 &ndash; 1891), stock broker and investment banker; maternal grandfather of British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]]
*[[Sara Jane Lippincott|Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott]] (1823 &ndash; 1904), publisher of ''Little Pilgrim'' and the first woman journalist employed by the ''New York Times''
*[[Charles Mason (Iowa judge)|Charles Mason]] (1804 &ndash; 1882), chief justice of Iowa (1838–1842) and U.S. commissioner of patents (1853–1857).
*[[Erastus Dow Palmer]] (1817 &ndash; 1904), sculptor
*[[Charles B. Sedgwick]] (1815 &ndash; 1883), U.S. congressman (1859–1863)
*[[Horatio Seymour]] (1810 &ndash; 1886), two-time [[List of Governors of New York|governor]] of [[New York (state)|New York]]
*[[Silas J. Seymour]] (1824 &ndash; 1899), member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]
*[[James Shanahan]] (1920 &ndash; 1997), Brigadier General with distinguished combat service and numerous awards
*[[Henry Warner Slocum]] (1827 &ndash; 1894), general for the Union during the Civil War and U.S. Congressman from [[Brooklyn]]
*[[John Edison Sweet]] (1832 &ndash; 1916), engineer and professor at [[Cornell University]], and a Dean at [[Syracuse University]]. His brother Homer Sweet, a poet and surveyor, wrote the ''New Atlas of Onondaga County, NY, in 1874'', still used by local historians. Brother William Avery Sweet was a manufacturer of steel and refined technology.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beauchamp|first1=William Martin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98kpAQAAMAAJ|title=Past and present of Syracuse and Onondaga county, New York: from prehistoric times to the beginning of 1908, Volume 2|date=1908|publisher=The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.|pages=22–23|access-date=January 17, 2017}}</ref>
*[[Theodore Weld]] (1802 &ndash; 1895), leading [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]]
*[[Charles Augustus Wheaton]] (1809 &ndash; 1882), major abolitionist and supporter of the [[Underground Railroad]]<ref name="inthefirstperson.com">{{cite web|title=Document Details|url=http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.detail.documents.aspx?documentcode=S219-D072-219|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927031048/http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.detail.documents.aspx?documentcode=S219-D072-219|archive-date=September 27, 2007|access-date=September 6, 2007}}</ref>