Nathaniel P. Hill

Nathaniel P. Hill
Nathaniel Peter Hill
United States Senator
from Colorado
In office
March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1885
Preceded by Jerome B. Chaffee
Succeeded by Henry M. Teller
Personal details
Born February 18, 1832(1832-02-18)
Montgomery, New York
Died May 22, 1900(1900-05-22) (aged 68)
Denver, Colorado
Resting place Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado)
Political party Republican

Nathaniel Peter Hill (February 18, 1832 - May 22, 1900) was a United States Senator from Colorado.

Biography

Born in Montgomery, Orange County, New York, at the Nathaniel Hill Brick House (now a museum). He married Alice Hale of Providence, Rhode Island, on July 26, 1860 (she was born January 19, 1840, and died July 19, 1908). Alice's father was Isaac Hale, born in the town of Newbury County of Essex, Mass, Sept. 17, 1807. He was a descendant of Thomas Hale, on of the first settlers in Newbury from England in 1635. Her mother, Harriet Johnson, daughter of David Johnson and Lucy Towne. She was born in the town of Newbury, VT, July 29, 1814. David was a son of Col. Thomas Johnson who distinguished himself in the Revolutionary War. N.P and Alice had three children, Crawford, Isabel, and Gertrude. N.P. took over the family farm in Montgomery, until he was 21, when his eldest brother, James King, attended Yale University. During this time he was a part time student at Montgomery Academy. He graduated from Brown University in 1856.

He was an instructor and later professor of chemistry at Brown from 1856 to 1864. He was the first to bring the idea of laboratories to Brown, which he copied from other schools, mostly in Europe.

He traveled to Colorado in the spring of 1865 to investigate mineral resources. He spent a portion of 1865 and 1866 in Swansea, Wales and Freiburg, Saxony studying metallurgy, and returned to the United States with a perfected method of smelting gold ore and took up a permanent residence in Black Hawk, Colorado as manager of the Boston & Colorado Smelting Company. He built the first smelter in Colorado in 1868.

He was mayor of Black Hawk in 1871 and a member of the Territorial council in 1872 and 1873. He moved to Denver in 1873 and engaged in smelting and the real estate business, and was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885.

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-eighth Congress).

Hill was owner and publisher of the Denver Republican newspaper, and a member of the United States delegation to the International Monetary Commission in 1891. He died in Denver on May 22, 1900 and was interred in Fairmount Cemetery.

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United States Senate
Preceded by
Jerome B. Chaffee
United States Senator (Class 3) from Colorado
1879–1885
Served alongside: Henry M. Teller, George M. Chilcott, Horace A. W. Tabor, Thomas M. Bowen
Succeeded by
Henry M. Teller

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