Later Life
When he resigned from the Lincoln Administration, he returned to Vermont to regain his health, but by 1866 was living in Tarrytown, New York, where he practiced as an attorney until at least 1894. He returned to Burlington at some point, where he died.
Chittenden was married to Mary Hatch in 1856, and fathered three children.
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