Lucius E. Chittenden

He was the first Register of the Treasury to be able to put his signature on our money, during the Civil War, of course. What few references to him we can find seem to refer to him as the "Honorable Lucius E. Chittenden," and since we can find reference to his having written a case law book, we may guess that he served as a judge.

Perhaps the most tantalizing clue about this man's life is that he seems to have been a writer. One of his works, An Unknown Heroine: An Historical Episode of the War Between the States comes up prominently.