Biography

10/11/1783 - 02/07/1856

SILL, Thomas Hale, a Representative from Erie and Warren Counties; born, October 11, 1783 in Windsor, Harford County, Ct.; graduated, Brown University, 1804; minutemen, Pennsylvania Militia (War of 1812); lawyer (1809-1856); deputy United States marshal (1816-1818); elected, trustee, Erie Academy (1817-1856); elected, burgess, Erie (1816-1817, 1829, 1833-1834, 1843-1844); deputy attorney general, Erie County (1819); elected, auditor, Erie County (1819, 1820); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1823-1824 term; elected, United States Congress (1825-1827, 1829-1831); president, Second Bank of the United States, Erie (1837-1840); elected, delegate, State Whig Convention (1834); elected, delegate, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (1837-1838); manager, Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company (1837-1838); elected, Whig presidential elector (1848); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Erie (1849-1853); commissioner, Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad Company (1849-1850); died, February 7, 1856 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Erie Cemetery, Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.