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Chamberlain, William

jurist, congressman. He was a presidential elector in 1801; was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1809 to 1811; and was a state councilor from 1796 to 1803. He served five years in the state legislature; was lieutenant-governor of Vermont from 1813 to 1815; and was chief justice of a state court from 1801 to 1803, and in 1814. a

Chambers, Charles Julius

journalist, author, was born Nov. 21, 1850, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He is a journalist long connected with the New York Herald. He is the author of A Mad World and its Inhabitants, a description of lunatic asylums founded on the author's personal experience in one in disguise; On a Margin, a Story of These Times; and Lovers Four and Maidens Five, a Story.

Chambers, George

jurist, con-- gressman, was born in 1786, in Chambersburg, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1837; was then elected a delegate to the Pennsylvania constitutional convention; and in 1851 was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the state. He died.

March 25, 1866, in Chambersburg, Pa.

Chambers, Henry

United States. senator, was born in 1785. He was a senator in congress from Alabama from 1825. to 1826. He died Jan. 25, 1826, in Mecklenburg county, Va.

Chambers, John

jurist, was born about 1710. He was a member of the executive council in 1754, and attended. as one of the commissioners the congress at Albany in that year. He was soon afterward appointed judge, and still later became the chief justice of New York.

He died April 10, 1765, in New York.

Chambers, John

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 4, 1779, in New Jersey. He was appointed governor of the territory of Iowa by President.

Harrison, manifesting great ability and prudence in his intercourse with the Indians, and was appointed by President Taylor a commissioner to make a. treaty with the Sioux Indians. He was a member of congress from Kentucky from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1835 to 1839. He died Sept. 21, 1852, near Paris, Ky.

Chambers, John Wesley

clergyman, college president, was born May 17, 1857, at Toms River, N. J. He has attained eminence as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church south, was financial agent of Millsaps college of Jackson, Miss.; and is now president of Whitworth Female college of Brook- < haven, Miss.

Chambers, Julius

journalist, author, was born Nov. 21, 1850, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He is the author of A Mad World; On a Margin; Lovers Four and Maidens Three; The Human Comedy of Balzac; and Missing.

Chambers, Robert Craig

miner, financier, state senator, was born Jan. 16, 1832, in Lexington, Ohio. He is president of the Daly Mining Co., now engaged in working the Daly mine, near Park City, Utah; and is also largely interested in the Excelsior and Diamond mines of Eureka, Nev. He is a principal owner of the Salt Lake City Street Railway company. He was elected a state senator in 1896.

Chambers, Robert William

artist, author, was born in 1865, in Long Island. He is a novelist and artist of New York city, and the author of In the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red Republic; The Maker of Moons; The Mystery of Choice; A King and a Few Dukes; and With the Band, a book of ballads.

Chambers, Talbot Wilson

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 25, 1819, in 'Carlisle, Pa. He was a noted reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city, and the author of The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible; and Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament. He died in 1896.