History of Ripton, (Addison County) Vermont United States of America

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Daniel Chipman, representative, was born in Salisbury, Conn., Oct. 22, 1763; son of Samuel and Hannah (Austin) Chipman; was graduated from Dartmouth in 1788, studied law with his brother Nathaniel, practised in Poultney, Vt., 1790-94, when he removed to Middlebury, which he represented in the Vermont legislature several times from 1798 to 1808, when he was elected to the governor's council. He was married in 1796 to Eletheria, sister of Prof. Levi Hedge of Harvard. He was again a representative in the state legislature 1812, '13, '14, '18, and '21, and speaker 1813-14. He was elected a representative in Congress in 1814, and resigned after the first session of the 14th Congress on account of ill-health. He was a member of five state constitutional conventions, 1793, 1814, '36, '43 and '50, and state's attorney of Addison county twenty years, 1797-1817. He was professor of law in Middlebury college, and a member of the corporation from its foundation, from 1806 to 1816. He received the degree of LL. D. from Middlebury college in 1849. As first reporter of the supreme court he published: Law of Contracts (1822); Reports of Cases in Supreme Court of Vt. (1824-35), and afterwards wrote biographies of Nathaniel Chipman (1846); Seth Warner and Gen. Thomas Chittenden (1849). He died at Ripton, Vt., April 23, 1850.

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

History of Ripton, (Addison County) Vermont

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