Chappell, John J
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1782, in Fairfield, S. C. He was a solicitor of equity, colonel of militia, a trustee of the state college in 1809, and a bank director. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1813 to 1817.
CHARLES, MRS. EMILY THORNTON, journalist, author, was born in 1845, in Indiana. She is a Washington journalist who has published two volumes of verse, Hawthorn Blossoms; and Lyrical Poems.
CHARLTON, ROBERT MILLEDGE, lawyer, congressman, author, poet, was born Jan. 19, 1807, in Savannah, Ga. He served in the state legislature; became United States district attorney; and in his twenty-seventh year was appointed judge of the supreme court of eastern Georgia. He was a poet, and published a volume of poems in 1839; and also published a prose work entitled Leaves from the Portfolio of a Georgia Lawyer; as well as a variety of historical and other lectures and literary addresses. He served in congress as a senator from Georgia, by appointment, during a part of the years 1852 and 1853. He died Jan. 18, 1854, in Savannah, Ga.
CHARLTON, THOMAS USHER PU- LASKI, lawyer, jurist, legislator, author, was born in 1779, in South Carolina. In 1803 he was a member of the Georgia state legislature; attorney-general during 1804-8; and judge of the superior court of the eastern circuit of Georgia during 1808-12. He was again a member of the legislature in 1812; mayor of Savannah in 1819-20; and again judge of the superior court in 1824. He published a volume of reports; a Life of James Jackson; and other works. He died in December, 1835.