Norton Parker Chipman
U. S. Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. Judge Advocate General, 1861-1865
U. S. House of Representatives, District of Columbia, 1871-1875
Born: March 7, 1836, Milford Center, Union County, Ohio.
Died: February 1, 1924, San Francisco, California.
- Attended the public schools.
- Moved to Iowa, 1845, and entered Washington College, Washington, Iowa.
- Afterwards attended the law school in Cincinnati.
- Returned to Washington, Iowa.
- Admitted to the Iowa bar, and commenced practice in Washington, Iowa.
- Entered the Union Army at the start of the Civil War.
- Commissioned Major of the Second Iowa Infantry, September 23, 1861.
- Commissioned Colonel, April 17, 1862.
- Brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers, March 13, 1865, "for meritorious services in the Bureau of Military Justice" (as U. S. Judge Advocate General).
- Mustered out November 30, 1865.
- Settled in Washington, D. C..
- Upon the establishment of a Territorial form of government for the District of Columbia was appointed Secretary, and subsequently was elected as a Republican Delegate to the Forty-second and Forty-third U. S. Congresses, serving from April 21, 1871 - March 3, 1875.
- Moved to California, 1876, and engaged in the lumber business.
- Member of the California State Board of Trade, and its president 1895-1906.
- Appointed a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of California, April 1897.
- Appointed Presiding Justice of the District Court of Appeals for the Third District, 1905.
- Elected to the same position, November 1906, serving until his resignation on December 18, 1922.
Buried: Cypress Lawn Cemetery, San Francisco, California.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)