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Chester, Joseph Lemuel

journalist, author, was born April 30, 1821, in Norwich, Conn. He was a Philadelphia journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for the crime of teaching free colored cnıldren to read; John Rogers, the Compiler of the English Bible; and Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent seventeen years' labor.

He edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. He died May 28, 1882, in London, England.

CHESTERMAN, ALONZO DECATUR, A. M., educator, was born Jan. 15, 1840, in Hanover county, Va. In 1860 he graduated from the Hampden Sidney college, Virginia. He has been principal of the Florence academy, Alabama; principal of the Marshall state normal college, West Virginia; principal of the Holly Springs normal institute, and of the classical school, Mississippi.