Chapin Hall

Chapin Hall
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 24th district
In office
March 4, 1859  March 3, 1861
Preceded by James Lisle Gillis
Succeeded by John Patton
Personal details
Born (1816-07-12)July 12, 1816
Busti, New York
Died September 12, 1879(1879-09-12) (aged 63)
Jamestown, New York
Political party Republican

Chapin Hall (July 12, 1816 September 12, 1879) was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.

Biographer

Chapin Hall was born in Busti, New York. He attended the common schools and the Jamestown Academy in Jamestown, New York. He moved to Pine Grove (now Russell), 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. He was interested in the manufacture of lumber products at Louisville, Kentucky, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and Newark, New Jersey, and in the manufacture of worsted goods at Jamestown, New York. He died in Jamestown in 1879. Interment in Lake View Cemetery.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
James L. Gillis
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district

1859–1861
Succeeded by
John Patton


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