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Chinn, Joseph W – Choate, Isaac Bassett

Chinn, Joseph W

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1831 to 1835. He died Dec. 5, 1840, in Richmond, Va.

Chinn, Thomas W

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was elected a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1839 to 1841.

Chipman, Henry

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1785, in Vermont. He was appointed a judge of the United States for the territory of Michigan; removed to Detroit, and from that time until his death was one of the most influential citizens of the state. He died April 27, 1867, in Detroit, Mich.

Chipman, John S

congressman, was born in Vermont. He was a representative in congress from Michigan from 1845 to 1847; and subsequently moved to California.

Chipman, Norton P

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1834, in Milford Centre, Ohio. At the close of the war he was brevetted brigadier-general; and settled at Washington city, where he had previously been on duty for two years. He was appointed secretary of the territorial government of the District of Columbia at its organization; and was elected a delegate to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.

Chisholm, Alexander R

soldier, journalist, was born Nov. 19, 1834, in Beaufort, S. C. He served in the civil war as a confederate soldier; and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1869 he removed to New York city, and established The Financial and Mining Record, in connection with a bond and stock brokerage business.

Chisholm, Walter Scott

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 17, 1836, in Columbus, Ga. He was judge of Savannah city court during 1863-78; was president of the Alabama Midland railroad; and director of a number of business corporations. He died Dec. 5, 1890, in New York.

Chisholm, William

manufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 12, 1825, in Fifeshire, Ohio. He invented machinery for the manufacture of steel shovels, spades and scoops; and established The Chisholm steel shovel works of Cleveland.

Chittenden, T. C

congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was elected a representative from that state to the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh congresses.

Chivers, Thomas Holley

physician, poet, was born in 1807. He was a Georgia physician and poet, and the author of Virginalia, or Songs of My Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epic in Three Lustra; and The Lost Pleiad. He died in 1858.

Choate, David

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1796. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature. He held the office of trial justice for many years in Essex, and was an active supporter of benevolent institutions. He died Dec. 15, 1872, in Essex, Mass.

Choate, Isaac Bassett

educator, poet, was born July 12, 1833, in Naples, Maine. He is an educator of Boston, and the author of Elements of English Speech; and Wells of English.