[2] Beardsley's family soon moved to Monticello, an unincorporated village of Richfield, and he was educated in the local schools of his new hometown.

[3] He was later commissioned as a quartermaster in the United States Army, and took part in the Defense of Sacket's Harbor in 1813.

[6] He was one of the "principal citizens" participating in the anti-abolitionist mob that broke up the 1835 meeting in Utica, called by Beriah Green, to set up a New York State Antislavery Society.

[1] Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth United States Congress, Beardsley served as U. S. Representative for the twentieth district from March 4, 1843, to February 29, 1844, when he resigned to accept the appointment as associate justice of the New York Supreme Court.

[2] Arthur Moore Beardsley became an attorney, and had a successful career in Utica and New York City.