Nathaniel P. Hill

Nathaniel Peter Hill ( born February 18, 1832 in Montgomery, New York, † May 22, 1900 in Denver ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate.

Nathaniel Hill Brick House came to the world, which is now listed under the name of Nathaniel Hill Brick House in the Register of Historic Places of Orange County. He attended a private school in Montgomery and took his degree in 1856 at Brown University in Providence. He then got a job as a chemistry lecturer there, which he held until 1864.

Having operated in the spring of 1865 mineralogical research in Colorado, spent the rest of this and a part of the following year in Europe, where he studied at the universities of Swansea and Freiburg metallurgy. This helped him to develop a perfected method for gold recovery, with which he returned to the United States. He settled in Black Hawk in Colorado Territory down and was managing director of the Boston & Colorado Smelting Company.

1871 Hill mayor of Black Hawk; 1872 to 1873 he was a member of the Territorialrat. In 1873 he moved to Denver, where he continued to pursue his previous transactions, but also got in to the real estate industry. Finally, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he belonged to a long term of 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1885 during this period he was also Chairman of the Mining Committee.

Hill, who was also the owner and publisher of the newspaper Denver Republican, then have acted as head of the U.S. delegation to the International Monetary Commission, which met in Washington in 1891. He died in May 1900 in Denver.