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Gideon Olin 1743 - 1823
Gideon Olin was born on November 2, 1743 in East Greenwich, Comté de Kent County, RI États-Unis, and died at age 79 years old on January 21, 1823 in Shaftsbury, Comté de Bennington County, VT. Gideon Olin was buried at Shaftsbury Center Cemetery Vermont Rte 7a, in Shaftsbury, Bennington County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gideon Olin.
Gideon Olin
November 2, 1743
East Greenwich, Comté de Kent County, RI, 02818, États-Unis
January 21, 1823
Shaftsbury, Comté de Bennington County, VT, États-Unis
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Gideon Olin's History: 1743 - 1823
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11/21743November 2, 1743BirthdateEast Greenwich, Comté de Kent County, RI 02818, États-UnisBirthplaceADVERTISEMENT BY
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US Congressman, Judge. He was a United States Representative from the State of Vermont. He is best remembered as being one of the founders of the State of Vermont and the University of Vermont. He was born one of seven children to John Olin (1712-1797), and his wife Susannah Pearce Olin (1708-1802), in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on November 2, 1743. A farmer by trade, he received little education as a child, but he later worked in agricultural pursuits. He later moved to the city of Shaftsbury, Vermont, in 1776 and took an interest in politics. He later served as a Delegate to the Windsor Convention in 1777, which enacted the United States Constitution that formed the Vermont Republic (later the State of Vermont). He then served as a Member of the Vermont State House of Representatives for fifteen years (1778, 1780 to 1793, 1799), and as Speaker of the Vermont State House of Representatives for six years (1788 to 1793). At the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he joined the Second Regiment and served with the rank of Major under Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge (1738-1819), and Colonel Samuel Herrick (1732-1797). Following the war, he was appointed an Assistant Judge of the Bennington County, Vermont, Court, and served in that position for seventeen years (1781 to 1798). He also served as a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention for three years (1791 to 1793) and as a Member of the Governor's Council for six years (1793 to 1798). He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Israel Smith (1759-1810), on March 4, 1803. A Member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he then served Vermont's 1st District (Eighth Congress and Ninth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1803, to March 3, 1807. In total, he was elected in 1802, reelected in 1804, and retired in 1807. Following his two terms in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in the United States House of Representative James Witherell (1759-1838), on March 4, 1807. After leaving the United States Congress, he served as the Chief Justice of the Bennington County, Vermont, Court from 1807 to 1811. He also resumed his agricultural pursuits until his death on January 21, 1823, at the age of 79. He is also noted as being one of the founders of the State of Vermont and the University of Vermont. He passed away in Shaftsbury, Vermont, on January 21, 1823, at the age of 79, and he was buried in Center Shaftsbury Cemetery in Shaftsbury Center, Vermont. Following his death, one of his obituaries of the time said of him, "He was sparing in professions, but especially a fair and honest man." He was married twice, first to Patience Dwinell Olin (1743-1801), in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on May 10, 1767, with whom he had seven children including, Susannah Olin (1767-1845, last name later Dyer), Abigail Olin (1769-1837, last name later Whittemore), John Henry Olin (1772-1860), Gideon Harris Olin (1777-1822), Patience Olin (1778-1831), Barbara Olin (1786-1859), and Elizabeth Olin (1788-1839), and second to Lydia Myres Pope Olin (1775-1866), in Pownal, Vermont on April 10, 1802, with whom he had five children including, Benjamin Franklin Olin (1802-1874), Esther Olin (1802-1882), Nathaniel Green Olin (1805-1881), Abram Baldwin Olin (1808-1879), and Job Shaftesbury Olin (1811-1854). His first wife Patience who passed away in Shaftsbury Center, Vermont, on January 30, 1801, at the age of 58, is buried in Center Shaftsbury Cemetery in Shaftsbury Center, Vermont, and his second wife Lydia who passed away in Richland County, Ohio, on June 11, 1866, at the age of 91, is buried in Bellville Cemetery in Bellville, Ohio. He was part of the famous Olin political family of Shaftsbury, Vermont, which also included his son, Abram Baldwin Olin (1808-1879), who served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from the State of New York in 1856, as a United States Representative from the State of New York while representing the 13th District (Thirty-Fifth Congress, Thirty-Sixth Congress, and Thirty-Seventh Congress), from March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1863, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from March 11, 1863, to January 13, 1879, and his nephew, Henry Olin (1768-1837), who served as a Member of the Vermont State House of Representatives from 1799 to 1804, 1806 to 1815, 1817 to 1819, and again from 1822 to 1824, as a Member of the Executive Council in 1820 and 1821, as an Associate Judge and then Chief Judge of the Addison County, Vermont, Court from 1801 to 1824, as a Delegate to the State Constitutional Conventions in 1814, 1822, and 1828, as a United States Representative from the State of Vermont while representing the 3rd District (Eighteenth Congress), from December 13, 1824, to March 3, 1825, and as the Eighth Lieutenant Governor of the State of Vermont from 1827 to 1830.
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01/211823January 21, 1823Death dateUnknownShaftsbury, Comté de Bennington County, VT États-UnisCause of deathDeath locationADVERTISEMENT BY
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mm/dd/yyyyFuneral dateShaftsbury Center Cemetery Vermont Rte 7a, in Shaftsbury, Bennington County, VT 05262, États-UnisBurial location
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