Husband Hon. Thomas H. Sill 1 2
Born: 11 Oct 1783 - Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 1
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Died: 7 Feb 1856 - ? Erie, Erie Co, PA 1
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Father: Capt. Richard L. Sill ( - ) 1
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Marriage: 1816 1
Wife Joanna Boyleston Chase 1 2
Born: - Litchfield Co, CT
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Father: Rev. Amos Chase (Abt 1759-1849) 2 3 4
Mother: Joanna Lanman ( -Abt 1848) 2 5
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1 M Richard Sill 1
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2 F Joanna Lauman Sill 6
AKA: Joanna Lanman Sill 1
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Died: Bef 1884
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Spouse: Joseph Selden (1817-1852) 6 7
Marr: 27 Apr 1841 6
3 F Sarah Hale Sill 1 8 9
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Spouse: Matthew Taylor ( -1854) 1 8 9
4 M Thomas Sill 1
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M Joseph Sill 1
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6 M James Sill 1
Born: - Erie, Erie Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Thomas H. Sill
He graduated from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1804. After studying law with Hon. Jacob Burnet, of Cincinnati, Ohio, he began practice in 1809 at Lebanon, Ohio. Failing health soon induced him to relinquish business temporarily; and, after traveling for a year he resumed law practice, opening an office at Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1813, being then the only resident attorney at that place, where he remained for life. Erie was then but a hamlet, the war being in progress, and the brigs of Perry's fleet under construction in the harbor, so that upon his arrival he joined the Minute Men,” who guarded the place in momentary expectation of an attack from the British, an apprehension happily dispelled by Perry's victory on the following 10th of September. This service, with a subsequent term on the staff of Gen. Wallace, completed his military service. From 1816 till 1818 he was Deputy United States Marshal, and in 1819 Deputy Attorney-General, as such assisting at the first court in Warren Co. In 1823 he was elected to the Legislature, and in 1826 to Congress. In 1828 he was again elected, being the only anti-Jackson member from Pennsylvania, which indicated his personal influence with his constituency. He declined nomination for the following term, and in 1837 was made President of the United States Branch Bank at Erie, holding the position during the existence of the Institution. He served repeatedly as Burgess of Erie. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention to revise the Constitution in 1837 and 1838, where among the able men who composed that body he maintained a marked influence. In 1848 as Presidential Elector he voted for Taylor and Fillmore. From 1849 to 1853 he was Postmaster at Erie. He was an able and eloquent advocate, a careful and trusted counselor. Among contemporaries of the most respectable positions, he was a man of note and influence. While the qualities of his mind commanded the respect of all, the amiability of his disposition won for him their affection. He took a lively interest in public matters, especially projects of public improvements, and the cause of education, serving as School Director, and for more than thirty years as Trustee of Erie Academy. To no one during his career was the public eye oftener turned at public meetings and associations for the promotion of reform; while as the representative of his fellow citizens, many residents remembered as models of composition and good taste his address at the reception of ex-Presidents Adams and Van Buren, and his eulogy upon President Taylor. While his style was chaste, his bearing combined dignity with modesty. As a forensic advocate, he excelled, especially in his calm and logical addresses to juries, and in this respect he had few if any superiors in the circuit of his practice. An early Republican and Whig, he had much to do in shaping the politics of this district. He lived to witness the dawn of Republican supremacy, for which he had labored, and the prosperity of a city in whose early struggles he had been so active. [HEC 1884, 952]
General Notes: Wife - Joanna Boyleston Chase
She died at the age of ninety-two years.