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thumb Jacob Payson Chamberlain (August 1, 1802 – October 5, 1878) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War. ==Life and career== Jacob P. Chamberlain was born in Dudley, Massachusetts on August 1, 1802. His family moved to western New York in 1807. He was educated there and became a school teacher and farmer and served as Varick's Town Clerk before settling in Seneca Falls, New York, where he began a business career.〔Seneca Falls Historical Society, (Jacob P. Chamberlain ), Papers Read Before the Seneca Falls Historical Society, 1906, pages 54 to 58〕 Chamberlain owned and operated farms, flour mills, malthouses, distilleries and woolen mills, and was one of the original organizers of the first bank in Seneca Falls. Originally a Bucktail Democrat, he later became a Whig, and joined the Republican Party when it was founded in the mid-1850s. He served in several local offices, including school board member and village president.〔Blake Aaron Willey, The Origins of the Kuney Family in America, Volume 2, 2001, page 62〕 Chamberlain was an active supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1848 he attended the Seneca Falls Convention and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Sentiments which called for equal rights for women. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1859. Chamberlain was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863). He was not a candidate for renomination and returned to his business and farming interests. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacob P. Chamberlain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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