History of Niagara County New York United States of America

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Jerome Hunting Chaffee, senator, was born in Niagara county, N. Y., April 17, 1825. He engaged in the dry-goods business at Adrian, Mich., 1846-52; resided in Missouri and Kansas, and in 1859 removed to what is now Denver, Col., where he engaged in mining and other enterprises. He was a representative in the territorial legislature, 1861-4; serving as speaker, 1863-4; was a Republican delegate to the 42nd and 43rd congresses, 1871-75, and took his seat in the U.S. senate, Dec. 4, 1876. He was chairman of the Republican national executive committee of 1884. He died in Salem Centre, N. Y., March 9, 1886.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

James Madison Edmunds, postmaster, was born in Niagara county, N.Y., Aug. 23, 1810; son of Robert Edmunds, and descended from the Edmunds family of New England. He received a good school training and was a teacher in various schools in New York state, 1826-31. He removed to Washtenaw county, Mich., with his parents in 1831, and became a merchant in Ypsilanti. He was a school inspector, a member of the state senate, 1840-41; a state representative, 1846; and was defeated as a Whig candidate for governor of Michigan, in 1847. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1851; was chairman of Republican state central committee, 1855-61; removed to Detroit in 1853; was comptroller of the city, 1857-61; commissioner of the U.S. land office, Washington, D.C., 1861-66; postmaster of the U.S. senate, 1866-69, and postmaster of Washington city, 1869-97. He was president of the national council of the union league of America, 1862-69, and president of the Michigan soldiers' relief association, 1861-66. He died in Washington, D.C., Dec. 14, 1879.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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