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CHITTENDEN, Simeon B., merchant, born in Guilford, Connecticut, 29 March, 1814. After receiving an academic education, he entered a store at New Haven, Connecticut, removed to New York in 1843, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was vice-president of the New York chamber of commerce from 1867 till 1869; was one of the directors in the Continental bank and in the Continental fire insurance company; a director in the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western, and other railroads; and president of the New Haven and New London shore line railroad of Connecticut. He was elected a member of congress from Brooklyn to fill a vacancy, taking his seat 7 December, 1874, and was twice re-elected as an independent republican. Mr. Chittenden has given liberally to the Long Island historical society and other institutions. In 1887 he gave $125,000 to Yale for a library building.
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