Chittenden, Martin
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born March 12, 1769, in Salisbury, Conn. He was a member of the convention that adopted the United States constitution; in 1790 was elected county clerk and representative, to which position he was re-elected for six years successively, and also at occasional subsequent intervals. He was judge of the county court from 1793 to 1795; chief justice from 1796 to 1803; and was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1813. He was governor of Vermont in 1813 and 1814; and was judge of probate in 1821 and 1822. He died Sept. 5, 1841, in Williston, Vt.
CHITTENDEN, RUSSELL HENRY, educator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1856, in New Haven, Conn. He is a professor of chemistry in the Sheffield scientific school at Yale university, and the author of Studies from the Laboratory of Physiology and Chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School; and On Digestive Proteolysis. CHITTENDEN, SIMEON BALDWIN, railroad president, congressman, was born March 29, 1814, in Guilford, Conn. He was vice-president of the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1867 to 1869; one of the directors in the Continental bank, and New London Shore-Line Railroad of Connecticut. He was elected to the fortythird congress, to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died April 14, 1889, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
CHITTENDEN, SIMEON DUDLEY, railroad manager, was born July 20, 1851, in Guilford, Conn. During 1873-94 he was connected with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad; and since 1895 has been general manager of the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad.