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Nathaniel Peter Hill (February 18, 1832 - May 22, 1900) was a United States Senator from Colorado
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in Montgomery
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, Orange County
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, New York
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, at the Nathaniel Hill Brick House
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 (now a museum). He married Alice Hale of Providence Road Island, on July 26, 1860 (she was born Jan. 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.






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

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
.

Biography

Born in Montgomery
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, Orange County
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, New York
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, at the Nathaniel Hill Brick House
Nathaniel Hill Brick House

The Nathaniel Hill Brick House, locally referred to as just the Brick House, is located on New York State Route 17K in the Orange County, New York, New York Montgomery , New York....
 (now a museum). He married Alice Hale of Providence Road Island, on July 26, 1860 (she was born Jan. 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
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 in 1856.

He was an instructor and later professor
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 of chemistry
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 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
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 resources. He spent a portion of 1865 and 1866 in Swansea
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, Wales
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 and Freiburg
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, Saxony
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 studying metallurgy
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, and returned to the United States with a perfected method of smelting
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 gold ore
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 and took up a permanent residence in Black Hawk, Colorado
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 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
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 in 1873 and engaged in smelting and the real estate
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 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
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 and Post Road
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s (Forty-eighth Congress).

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

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