Nathaniel P. Hill

Nathaniel P. Hill

Nathaniel Peter Hill (born February 18, 1832 in Montgomery , New York , †  May 22, 1900 in Denver ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Colorado in the US Senate .

Nathaniel Hill came in Brickhouse to the world, under the name today Nathaniel Hill Brick House in the Register of Historic Places of Orange County are listed. He attended a private school in Montgomery and graduated from Brown University in Providence in 1856 . He then got a job there as a chemistry lecturer, which he held until 1864.

After doing mineralogical research in Colorado in the spring of 1865, he spent the remainder of this year and part of the following year in Europe, studying metallurgy at the universities of Swansea and Freiburg . This helped him develop a perfected method of extracting gold , which he used to return to the United States. He settled in Black Hawk , Colorado Territory , and became the executive director of the Boston & Colorado Smelting Company .

In 1871 Hill became mayor of Black Hawk; from 1872 to 1873 he was a member of the Territorial Council. In 1873 he moved to Denver, where he continued his previous business, but also entered the real estate business. Eventually he was elected to the US Senate, which he served for a term from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1885; during this time he was among other things chairman of the mining committee.

Hill, who was also the owner and editor of the Denver Republican newspaper , then served as head of the US delegation to the International Monetary Commission, which met in Washington in 1891 . He died in Denver in May 1900.

Web links

• Nathaniel P. Hill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathaniel P. Hill in the database of Find a Grave (English)