The Road to Civil War

Chapin Hall

(July 12, 1816 — September 12, 1879) Chapin Hall, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Busti, Chautauqua County, N.Y., July 12, 1816; attended the common schools and the Jamestown (N.Y.) Academy; moved to Pine Grove (now Russell), Warren County, Pa., about 1841 and engaged in the lumber business and mercantile pursuits; moved to Warren, Pa., in 1851 and engaged in banking; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; interested in the manufacture of lumber products at Louisville, Ky., Fond du Lac, Wis., and Newark, N.J., and in the manufacture of worsted goods at Jamestown, N.Y.; died in Jamestown, N.Y., September 12, 1879; interment in Lake View Cemetery. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000046]

Member of Pennsylvania Delegation - The Road to Civil War [this display].

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