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Jerome Bunty Chaffee (April 17, 1825 – March 9, 1886) was an American entrepreneur and United States Senator from Colorado. Chaffee County, Colorado [1] is named after him.
1 de ago. de 2003 · JEROME BONAPARTE CHAFFEE — mining man, politician, businessman, mill man, banker, and one of Colorado’s first two senators — was a “mover and shaker” in the 1860s and ’70s. Yet he quickly receded into history after his death in March 1886.
Charles A. Adams, the agent at Los Piños, and Jerome B. Chaffee, delegate to Congress from Colorado, worked to have Brunot appointed to a new commission to negotiate the land cession. Brunot and Nathan Bishop of the Board of Indian Commissioners were appointed on June 2, 1873.
Jerome Bunty Chaffee (17 April 1825-9 March 1886) was a Republican US Senator from Colorado from 15 November 1876 to 3 March 1879, preceding Nathaniel P. Hill. Jerome Bunty Chaffee was born in Cambria, New York in 1825, and he moved to Adrian, Michigan in 1844, to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1852...
In 1865, Jerome B. Chaffee and Ebenezer Smith asked Moffat to back Denver’s First National Bank as its cashier. In 1881 he became its president, a position he held until his death. This position enabled Moffat to attain the financial and community influence that he had long desired.
Colorado remained a territory until March 1875, when the territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives, Jerome B. Chaffee, in his final week in office, convinced Congress that there were more than 150,000 residents in the territory.
Jerome Bunty Chaffee (April 17, 1825 – March 9, 1886) was an entrepreneur and United States Senator from Colorado. Chaffee County, Colorado [1] is named after him. Biography. He was born in Cambria, Niagara County, New York. He moved to Adrian, Michigan in 1844 and worked as a teacher until starting a dry goods business in the late 1840s.
