Thomas Hillhouse (adjutant general)

Thomas Hillhouse (March 10, 1817 – July 31, 1897) was an American farmer, banker and politician.

Life

He was born on March 10, 1817 in Albany County, New York, 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 member of the New York State Senate (26th D.) in 1860 and 1861.

He was Adjutant General of New York 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, elected in 1865 on the Republican ticket, but defeated for re-election in 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.

He died on July 31, 1897 in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York.^[1]

References

Further reading

• Political Graveyard
• The tickets at state election, in NYT on November 7, 1865
• His resignation, in NYT on November 19, 1881
• His wife's death notice, in NYT on March 18, 1903
• His son's death notice, in NYT on May 25, 1910
• 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)