Thomas Hillhouse (adjutant general)

Thomas Hillhouse (March 10, 1817 Albany County, New York - July 31, 1897 Yonkers, Westchester County, New York) was an American farmer, banker and politician.

Life

He was the son of Thomas Hillhouse (d. 1835, brother of James Hillhouse). He worked and lived on his father's farm until 1851, when he removed to Geneva, New York in Ontario County. He married Harriet Prouty (d. 1903), and their son was Thomas Griswold Hillhouse (d. 1910).

He was a Republican member of the New York State Senate from 1860 to 1861.

He was Adjutant General of the New York State Militia under Governor Edwin D. Morgan, from July 1861 until the end of 1862. During the American Civil War the state militia fought with the Union Army.

He was New York State Comptroller from 1866 to 1867.

He was Assistant Treasurer of the United States until 1881 when he resigned to become President of the Metropolitan Trust Company in New York City.

ources

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hilla-hillhouse.html] Political Graveyard
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940DE2D6173CE63ABC4F53DFB767838E679FDE] The tickets at state election, in NYT on November 7, 1865
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B07E7DC113CEE3ABC4152DFB767838A699FDE] His resignation, in NYT on November 19, 1881
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B01E2DF1330E333A25751C1A96E9C94669ED7CF] His obit in NYT on August 12, 1897
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9400EFDE1F3DEE32A2575BC1A9659C946297D6CF] His wife's death notice, in NYT on March 18, 1903
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9503E5D91530E233A25756C2A9639C946196D6CF] His son's death notice, in NYT on May 25, 1910
* [http://books.google.com/books?hl=pt-BR&id=T7AsAAAAIAAJ&jtp=28 Google Book] "Life Sketches of State Officers, Senators, and Members of Assembly in the State of New York in 1867" by S. R. Harlow and H. H. Boone (Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1867)