Chauncey Vibbard
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Chauncey Vibbard (November 11, 1811 - June 5, 1891) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Galway, New York, Vibbard attended the common schools and was graduated from Mott's Academy for Boys, Albany, New York. He served as clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Albany, New York. He moved to New York City, and in 1834 went to Montgomery, Alabama. He returned to New York and settled in Schenectady. He was appointed chief clerk of the Utica &. Schenectady Railroad Co. in 1836. He became a railroad freight and ticket agent in 1848. Consolidated the many little railroads of western New York into the New York Central Railroad Co., serving as its first general superintendent 1853-1865.
Vibbard was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862. During the Civil War served as director and superintendent of military railroads in 1862. First president of the Family Fund Insurance Co. 1864-1867. He moved to New York City in 1865 and became involved in the business of steamship lines and elevated railroads. He was interested in the development of southern railroads and South and Central American enterprises at the time of his retirement in 1889. He died in Macon, Georgia, June 5, 1891. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery.
