sentences:  In 1839 he became one of the proprietors of the United States Hotel in Saratoga Springs.In 1838 he married Rhoby H. Barnum.The couple had five children, a son, William, who died at age nine in 1855, and four daughters, Mary, Frances, Caroline, and Rhobie, who were still living as of 1878
  
  He was a Whig member of the New York State Assembly (Saratoga Co.) in 1846.