Chaplin, Jeremiah
clergyman, author, was born in 1813, in Danvers, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman of Newton, Mass., who after leaving the ministry devoted himself to literary pursuits in Boston. He is the author of The Memorial Hour; The Hand of Jesus; Riches of Bunyan; Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College; Chips from the White House; Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dunbar; and Life of Charles Sumner. He died March 5, 1886, in New Utrecht, N. Y.
CHAPMAN, ALVAN WENTWORTH, botanist, author, was born Sept. 28, 1809, in Southampton, Mass. He was known as a botanist for whom the genus Chapmannia was named, and the author of Flora of the Southern United States.