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Chute, Horatio Nelson – Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin

Chute, Horatio Nelson

educator, author, was born Dec. 26, 1847, in Canada.

He graduated from the university of Michigan; and since 1873 has been an instructor of science in the Ann Arbor High school. He is the author of Elements of Physics; Physical Laboratory Manual, and Laboratory Work.

Chute, William Edward

educator, author, was born April 24, 1832, in Nova Scotia. He has taught school and given singing lessons for forty years in New York, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan and Maine. He is the author of the Chute Genealogy and other works; and has assisted in the editing of the Baptist Hymn Writer; American Musicians; and other musical and hymnal works.

Cilley, Bradbury

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1813 to 1817.

Cilley, Jonathan

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 2, 1802, in Nottingham, N. H. He was at one time speaker of the house of representatives of Maine, of which he was a member from 1832 to 1837; and was a presidential elector in 1832. He was a member of congress from Maine from 1837 to the time of his death. He died Feb. 24, 1838, in Bladensburg, Md. lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 29, 1835,

Cilley, Jonathan Prince

soldier, in Thomaston, Maine. He attended the Military academy of Pembroke, N. H., and in 1858 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and has since attained prominence as an eminent lawyer of Rockland, Maine.

During the civil war he served in the first

Claggett, Clifton

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1773 in Rockingham county, N. H. He was judge of probate of Hillsborough county from 1823 to 1827; judge of the superior court one or two years; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1817 to 1821. He died in 1829.

Cilley, Joseph

soldier, was born in 1735, in Nottingham, N. H. He was a colonel in the first New Hampshire regiment in the revolutionary war, and majorgeneral of militia in 1786. He died Aug. 25, 1799, in Nottingham, N. H.

Cilley, Joseph

United States senator, was born Jan. 4, 1791, in Nottingham, N. H. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1846 to 1847. He died Sept. 16, 1887, in Nottingham, N. H.

Cist, Charles

journalist, author, was born April 24, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the editor of Cist's Advertiser in 1844-53, and of three volumes of Annals of Cincinnati in 1841-51 and in 1859, and a work entitled Cincinnati Miscellany. He died Sept. 8, 1868, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cist, Henry Martyn

soldier, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 20, 1839, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Cincinnati lawyer who served in the federal army during the civil war and became brigadier-general. He is the author of The Army of the Cumberland.

Cist, Lewis Jacob

banker, author, was born Nov. 20, 1818, in Harmony, Pa.

He was known as a banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati who published Trifles in Verse. He died March 30, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin

author, was born in 1825 in Massachusetts.

She was the author of Brampton Sketches; Personal Recollections of Whittier; Real Happenings; and Under the Elms.

She died in 1896.

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