Denison, Charles
physician, inventor, author, was born Nov. 1, 1845, in Royalton, Vt. He is the inventor of the air pressure inhaler and exhaler, and the binaural stethoscope, now used extensively by the medical profession. He is the author of Climates of the United States in Colors, and various other works on health and hygiene.
DENISON, CHARLES WHEELER, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 11, 1809, in New London, Conn. He was a clergyman who as a young man was editor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery journal of New York. During the civil war he served as chaplain in the federal army. He is the author of The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair, a temperance tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an exposure of the padrone system; Life of General Grant; Out at Sea, a volume of verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; and Winfield, the Lawyer's Son, form a series of biographies of noted men for juvenile reading. He died Nov. 14, 1881.