Chapin Hall (July 12, 1816 – September 12, 1879) was a
Republican United States Representative from
Pennsylvania. He served as Representative from 1859 until 1861.
Biographer
Chapin Hall was born in
Busti, New York. He attended the common schools and the
Jamestown Academy in
Jamestown, New York
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. He moved to
Pine Grove (now
Russell
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),
Warren County, Pennsylvania, about 1841 and engaged in the lumber business and mercantile pursuits. He moved to
Warren, Pennsylvania, in 1851 and engaged in banking.
Hall was elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-sixth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1860
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
. He was interested in the manufacture of lumber products at
Louisville, Kentucky,
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
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, and
Newark, New Jersey, and in the manufacture of worsted goods at
Jamestown, New York
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. He died in Jamestown in 1879. Interment in Lake View Cemetery.
References
Sources
The Political Graveyard
1816 births
1879 deaths
People from Busti, New York
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
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