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Chamberlin, Franklin

lawyer, author, was born April 14, 1821, in Dalton, Mass. He is a successful lawyer of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1870 published a work on American commercial law.

CHAMBERLIN, HUMPHREY BARK- ER, capitalist, philanthropist, was born Feb. 7, 1847, in England. In 1881 he was president of the shoe manufacturing company of Denver, Colo.; in 1889 president of the Beaver Brook water company; and is also the president of the Denver, Colorado Canon and Pacific Railroad company. He has donated large sums of money to university extensions, and the erection of a number of churches.

CHAMBERLIN, JEKIEL WESTON, physician, was born Oct. 28, 1857, at Rock Falls, Wis. He is oculist and aurist on the staff of St. Luke's hospital; the city and county hospital; and the Babies' Home in St. Paul, Minn.

CHAMBERLIN, JOSEPH EDGAR, journalist, author, was born in 1851, in Vermont. He is a Boston journalist on the staffs of the Transcript and the Youth's Companion; and the author of The Listener in the Town; and The Listener in the Country. CHAMBERLIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE, soldier, educator, college president, governor, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Bangor, Maine. He was professor of Bowdoin college from 1855 to 1862, when he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the twentieth Maine infantry, and was brevetted major-general. His command received the formal surrender of the arms and colors of Lee's army. He resumed his professorship of modern languages in 1865; and in 1871 was elected president of Bowdoin college. He was governor of Maine from 1866 to 1870.

CHAMBERLIN, THOMAS CHROW- DER, geologist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1843, in Mattoon, Ill. He is a prominent geologist of Wisconsin; and the author of Outline of a Course of Oral Instruction; and Geology of Wisconsin.