Career
He was New York State Treasurer from 1868 to 1871. He was born on January 16, 1818 in Canaan, Columbia County, New York, to George Bristol and Sally (Hutchinson) Bristol. In 1886, his residence on the "Glenmary" estate, which he had bought from Nathaniel Parker Willis who had lived from 1837 to 1842 in another house nearby, at Owego was burgled after he had moved to Florida.
He died on November 21, 1904 in DeLand, Volusia County, Florida.