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unusual facts about Lucius E. Chittenden


Lucius E. Chittenden

When he resigned from the Lincoln Administration, he returned to Vermont to regain his health, but by 1866 was living in Tarrytown, New York, where he practiced as an attorney until at least 1894.


Lucius E. Johnson

However, Johnson was apparently the first of the leaders of the big railroads who finally learned the mysterious source of William N. Page's deep pockets, which had been building a new railroad across southern West Virginia and Virginia to compete for the coal traffic destined for Hampton Roads.

Lucius E. Pinkham

While President of the Board of Health, he developed the idea of dredging the marshlands of Waikīkī via a two-mile long drainage canal.

Simeon B. Chittenden

Chittenden was elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stewart L. Woodford; he was reelected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses and served from November 3, 1874 to March 3, 1881.

He moved to New York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1842; he was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress and was vice president of the New York City Chamber of Commerce from 1867 to 1869.

Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, he attended Guilford Academy and from 1829 to 1842 engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven.


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