Death
Folger died in office on September 4, 1884 at his home on Main Street in Geneva, NY. He was buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Geneva, at the side of his wife who had died seven years earlier.
The C.J. Folger Hook & Ladder Co. #1 of the Geneva Fire Department is named in his honor.
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