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Childs, Robert A

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 22, 1845, in Malone, N. Y. He enlisted in General Stephen A. Hurlbut's company, which subsequently became a part of the fifteenth Illinois infantry volunteers, and served throughout the war. In 1884 he was presidential elector; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.

Childs, Thomas

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative from that state during the thirtyfourth congress.

Childs, Timothy

congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was a member of the assembly of New York in 1828 and 1833; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1829 to 1831, from 1835 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in November, 1847, in Santa Cruz.

Childs, William H

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 4, 1841, in Paris, Ky. This eminent lawyer was a member of the Montana territorial legislature in 1866; and became president of the upper house the following year.

Chiles, Mrs. Mary Eliza

author, poet, was born in 1820, in Kentucky.

Among her writings are Louisa Elton, a reply to Uncle Tom; Bandits of Italy; Oswyn Dudley; and Select Poems.

Chillson, William Deel

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 19, 1825, in Ticonderoga, N. Y. In early life he was steam engineer and steam sawmill builder, and sawed the first board cut by steam power in Minnesota, at St. Paul, in 1850. He has traveled and lectured on Science and the Bible, and is the author of a religious work. He has attained success in the practice of law, and has twice filled the office of county judge.

Chilson, Gardner

inventor, was born in 1804, in Thompson, Conn. He went to Boston in 1837, and engaged in the manufacture of stoves and furnaces at Mansfield, Mass. As early as 1844 he devised a furnace that received a prize medal at the London world's fair in 1851.

Among his numerous inventions are conical radiators, applied to stoves and furnaces. He died Nov. 21, 1877.

Chilton, Horace

lawyer, United States senator, was born in Tyler, Tex.

He was a delegate at large from Texas to the national democratic convention at St.

Louis in 1888; and served one term as assistant attorney-general of Texas by appointment. He was elected to the United States senate without practical opposition, as the successor of Hon. Richard Coke. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.

Chilton, Samuel

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1804, in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845; and after retiring from congress was a member of the state constitutional convention. He died Jan. 14, 1867, in Fauquier county, Va.

Chilton, Thomas

clergyman, was born July 30, 1798, in Garrard county, Ky.

He was a member of the Kentucky state legislature for several sessions, and for four terms a member of congress from Kentucky, during 1829-37. While practicing law with success he became a baptist preacher, and moved to Alabama, and was elected president of the Alabama baptist state convention, and soon abandoned the law. He died Aug. 15, 1854, in Montgomery, Tex.

Chilton, William P

jurist, lawyer, statesman, was born in Kentucky. He was, at different times, a member of each house of the Alabama legislature. In 1848 he was elected to the supreme court of Alabama, serving part of the time as chief justice for a term of ten years. During the existence of the confederate government, 1861-65, he was a member of its congress. He died Jan. 20, 1871, in Alabama.