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Church, Frederick E – Churchwell, William M

Church, Frederick E

artist, was born May 4, 1826, in Hartford, Conn. He is well known as a landscape painter, and his View of Niagara Falls, now in the Corcoran art gallery of Washington, D. C., won a prize at the French exhibition in

Church, Frederick S

painter, was born in 1842 in Grand Rapids, Mich.

He paints in oil and water-color, and draws in black and white, and has furnished many illustrations for books and periodicals. His principal works are Sea Princess; Back from the Beach; Muskrat's Nest; Foggy Day; A Willing Captive; Retaliation; Peacocks in the Snow; The Sorceress; and Pegasus Captured.

Church, Irving Porter

educator, author, was born July 22, 1851, in Ansonia, Conn. He is a professor of engineering at Cornell university, and the author of Statics and Dynamics for Engineering Students; Mechanics of Materials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three works which were afterwards published as Mechanics of Engineering; and Notes and Examples in Mechanics.

Church, John Adams

mining engineer, author, was born April 5, 1843, in Rochester, N. Y. He is the author of The Mining Schools of the United States; Notes on a Metallurgical Journey in Europe; The Comstock Lode; Report on the Striking of Artesian Water; and Arizona.

Church, Leonard C

soldier, state legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1846, in Walworth, Wis. He served during the civil war in company L, third Wisconsin cavalry. He was county treasurer for three terms, and in 1896 was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly.

Church, Pharcellus

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1801, in Seneca, N. Y. He was the author of Philosophy of Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of Moral Power in the Church; Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine Law; Seed- Truths; and Theodosia. He died June 5, 1886, in Tarrytown, N. Y.

Church, Samuel Harden

author, was born in 1858 in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful historical study.

Church, William E

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 7, 1841, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He enlisted in the union army in 1862, and was promoted to the rank of captain and assistant adjutantgeneral. In 1883 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota territory.

Churchill, John Charles

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1821, in Mooers, N. Y. From 1857 to 1859 he was the district attorney for Oswego county, and was county judge of the same county from 1860 to 1863. In 1866 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress, and re-elected to the forty-first congress.

Churchill, Thomas J

statesman.

He was governor of Arkansas from 1881 to 1883. was

Churchman, John

author, born in Maryland. He belonged to the Society of Friends, and was noted for his investigations into the causes of the variations of the magnetic needle. In addition to several philosophical treatises, he also published a variation-chart of the Globe, Magnetic Atlas, and Explanation.

He died July 24, 1805.

Churchwell, William M

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1852 to 1855.