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Jacob Payson Chamberlain (August 1, 1802 – October 5, 1878) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War .
Life and career [ edit ]
Jacob P. Chamberlain was born in Dudley, Massachusetts on August 1, 1802. His family moved to western New York in 1807. He was educated there and became a school teacher and farmer and served as Varick's Town Clerk before settling in Seneca Falls, New York , where he began a business career.[1] [2]
Chamberlain owned and operated farms, flour mills , malthouses , distilleries and woolen mills , and was one of the original organizers of the first bank in Seneca Falls.[3]
Originally a Bucktail Democrat , he later became a Whig , and joined the Republican Party when it was founded in the mid-1850s.[4] [5]
Chamberlain was an active supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church .[6]
In 1848 he attended the Seneca Falls Convention and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Sentiments which called for equal rights for women.[7]
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1859 .[8]
Chamberlain was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863).[9]
Death and burial [ edit ]
He died in Seneca Falls, New York , October 5, 1878[10] [11] [12]
Chamberlain had an uncle named Jacob Chamberlain, and a cousin, Jacob M. Chamberlain. They lived in the same area, and they are sometimes confused with each other in records and documents.[13]
References [ edit ]
^ Seneca Falls Historical Society, Jacob P. Chamberlain , Papers Read Before the Seneca Falls Historical Society, 1906, pages 54 to 58
^ James Hilton Manning (1917). Century of American Savings Banks Pub. Under the Auspices of the Savings Banks Association of the State of New York in Commemoration of the Centenary of Savings Banks in America 24
^ William D. Murphy (1859). Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1859 141 .
^ Blake Aaron Willey, The Origins of the Kuney Family in America, Volume 2, 2001, page 62
^ Manual of the Churches of Seneca County With Sketches of Their Pastors, 1895-96 147 .
^ Frances T. Barbieri; Kathy Jans-Duffy (2009). Seneca Falls ISBN 978-0-7385-6588-0
^ HUTCHINS, S.C. (1869). CIVIL LIST AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONY AND STATE OF NEW YORK. COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL AND AUTHENTIC SOURCES
^ United States Congressional Serial Set 538 .
^ Thomas William Herringshaw (1909). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits 587 .
^ New York Times, Death notice, Jacob P. Chamberlain , October 6, 1878
^ Thomas E. Spencer (1998). Where They're Buried A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated ISBN 978-0-8063-4823-0
^ National Park Service, Biography, Jacob P. Chamberlain , Women's Rights National Historical Park, accessed January 21, 2013
External resources [ edit ]
public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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