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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Vibbard, Chauncey
Vibbard, Chauncey, a Representative from New York; born in Galway, Saratoga County, N.Y., November 11, 1811; attended the common schools and was graduated from Mott’s Academy for Boys, Albany, N.Y.; clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Albany, N.Y.; moved to New York City, and in 1834 went to Montgomery, Ala.; returned to New York and settled in Schenectady; was appointed chief clerk of the Utica & Schenectady Railroad Co. in 1836; became a railroad freight and ticket agent in 1848; consolidated the many little railroads of western New York into one system under the name of the New York Central Railroad Co., serving as its first general superintendent 1853-1865; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862; during the Civil War served as director and superintendent of military railroads in 1862; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of McClellan and Pendleton in 1864; first president of the Family Fund Insurance Co. 1864-1867; moved to New York City in 1865; became one of the owners of a line of steamers running between New York City and Albany; also a director and stockholder in the original elevated railroad in Greenwich Street, New York City; interested in the development of southern railroads and South and Central American enterprises at the time of his retirement in 1889; died in Macon, Ga., June 5, 1891; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Vibbard, Chauncey," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1956 Original Sources, accessed April 26, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H6V3KRNJKIRVSSW.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Vibbard, Chauncey." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1956, Original Sources. 26 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H6V3KRNJKIRVSSW.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Vibbard, Chauncey' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1956. Original Sources, retrieved 26 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H6V3KRNJKIRVSSW.
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