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Chaffin, William Elmer – Chamberlain, Selah

Chaffin, William Elmer

educator, was born Nov. 18, 1862, in Claremont, Ν. Η. He graduated from the Stevens high school in 1882, and from Dartmouth college in 1886. He has been principal of grammar schools in several large cities, and since 1890 has been superintendent of schools of towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, Mass.

Chaille-Long, Charles

explorer, author, was born in 1843, in Maryland.

He is an African explorer of French parentage, and the author of Central Africa; the Three Prophets, Gordon, the Mahdi, and Arabi.

Chalmers, Joseph W

lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1807, in Halifax county, Va. In 1846 he was appointed from Mississippi to a seat in the United States senate to fill a vacancy; served the remainder of the term, but, declining a re-election, and was succeeded by Jefferson Davis. He died in June, 1853, in Holly Springs, Miss.

Chalmers, Lionel

physician, author, was born in 1715 in Scotland. He was a noted physician of Charleston, and the author of Treatise on the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina; and Essay on Fevers. He died in 1777, in Charleston, S. C.

Chalmers, Thomas

manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1815, in Scotland.

In 1871 the firm of Fraser and Chalmers started. He invented and patented improved machines for milling, smelting and refining ores, which soon came into general demand, bringing to their works in Chicago an immense business.

Chalmers, William J

manufacturer, was born July 10, 1852, in Chicago, and is a son of Thomas Chalmers. In 1871, when Fraser and Chalmers succeeded to the Eagle works, William J. Chalmers took charge of the finances and has since steadily risen through intermediate grades to the presidency of the concern. He is a director in the Commercial National bank and the Field Columbian museum of Chicago, Ill.

Chamberlain, D. H

soldier, lawyer, governor, was born June 23, 1835, in West Brookfield, Mass. He served in the fifth Massachusetts cavalry from 1863 to 1865; and settled in Charleston, S. C., in 1866. He was elected attorney-general of the state in 1868; and in 1874 was elected governor of South Carolina.

Chamberlain, Ebenezer M

congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1853 to 1855.

Chamberlain, Hiram S

railroad president, was born Aug. 6, 1835, in Franklin, Ohio. He is the president of the Belt railroad of Chattanooga.

Chamberlain, Jacob

missionary, author, was born in 1835, in Connecticut.

He is a Reformed Dutch missionary to India; and The Bible Tested is his most important work.

Chamberlain, Jacob P

congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress.

Chamberlain, Selah

railroad builder, was born May 14, 1812, in Brattleborough, Vt. The construction of the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.

Paul system gave him a large amount of work. In 1871 he began building the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley, now the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railroad, and was its president at his deatn. He died Dec. 27, 1890, in Cleveland, Ohio.