Chambers, Talbot Wilson – Chandler, Peleg Whitman
Chambers, Talbot Wilson
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 25, 1819, in 'Carlisle, Pa. He was a noted reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city, and the author of The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible; and Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament. He died in 1896.
Chambliss, John Randolph
soldier, was born Jan. 23, 1833, in Hicksford, Va. He joined the confederate army at the beginning of the civil war as colonel of an infantry regiment, and afterward became colonel of the thirteenth Virginia cavalry. He was subsequently made a brigadier-general, and was killed in action while leading a brigade of cavalry. He died Aug. 16, 1864, in Deep Bottom, Va.
Champe, John
revolutionary soldier, was born in 1752, in Virginia. He entered the army in 1776, and served through the revolutionary war as sergeant-major. He died in Kentucky.
Champion, Epaphroditus
congressman, was born in 1757. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1807 to 1817. He died Nov. 22, 1835, in East Haddam, Conn.
Champlin, Christopher E
lawyer, state senator, was born Sept. 24, 1860, in New Shoreham, R. I. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1884, and subsequently to the Rhode Island bar, where he has since practiced law. He Thas been senator since 1890.
Champlin, Christopher Grant
banker, congressman, United States senator, was born April 12, 1768, in Newport, R. I. He was a member of congress from Rhode Island from 1797 to 1801; and a senator of the United States from 1809 to 1811.. He died March 28, 1840, in Newport, R. I.
Champlin, George
merchant, was born in 1738. He was a merchant of Newport, R. I.; an officer of the revolution; member of the continental congress from 1785 to 1786, and of the convention that adopted the federal constitution. He died in 1809.
Champlin, James Tifft
clergyman, college president, author, was born June 9, 1811, in Colchester, Conn. He is a baptist clergyman of Portland, Maine, and president of Colby university in 1857- 73. He was the author of First Principles of Ethics; Lessons on Political Economy; Text-Book of Intellectual Philosophy; Scripture Reading Lessons; The Constitution of the United States, with Brief Comments; and a series of classical text-books. He died March 15, 1882, in Portland, Maine.
Champlin, John Denison
author, was born Jan. 29, 1834, in Stonington, Conn. He is the author of Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things; Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places; Young Folks' History of the War for the Union; Young Folks' Catechism of Common Things; Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Games and Sports; Young Folks Astronomy; Chronicle of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Apthorp, he has edited Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians, and with. C. C. Perkins, a Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings.
Champlin, John W
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 17, 1831, in Kingston, N.
Y. He received an academical education; practiced civil engineering for awhile; and in 1855 began the practice of law in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1857 he drew up the revised city charter of Grand Rapids, and has been recorder, attorney, and mayor of that city. In 1884 he was elected for eight years as justice of the supreme court of Michigan; and was chief justice in 1890-91. During 1891-97 he was professor of law in the university of Michigan, lecturing on corporations and torts.
Champlin, Stephen
naval officer, was born Nov. 17, 1789, in South Kingston, R. I. He was a commodore in the United States navy. He died Feb. 20, 1870, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Champlin, Stephen Gardner
soldier, lawyer, was born July 1, 1827, in Kingston, N. Y. He was a noted lawyer; recorder of the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., and served as prosecuting attorney of Kent county. In April, 1861, he became major in the third regiment Michigan volunteers; was commissioned colonel in October of the same year; and in 1862 became a brigadier-general. He died Jan. 24, 1864, from wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va.
Champney, Mrs. Elizabeth
author, was born in 1850, in Ohio. She is a popular New York writer for young people, and wife of the artist, J. Wells Champney, who has illustrated many of her books. She is the author of The Three Vassar Girls Series; The Witch Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; Howling Wolf and his Trick-Pony; All Around a Palette; Children's Art Sketches; In the Sky Garden; Fables in Astronomy, and other juveniles; and the novels, Bourbon Lilies; Sebia's Tangled Web; and Rosemary and Rue.
Champney, James Wells
soldier, painter, was born July 16, 1843, in Boston, Mass. In 1863 he served a short time in the forty-fifth Massachusetts volunteers, and later taught drawing in Lexington, Mass. In 1876 he built a studio in Deerfield, Mass., where he has since spent most of his summers, his winter studio being in New York city. His works include Which is Umpire; Sear Leaf (1874); and Not so Ugly as He Looks.
Champneys, Benjamin
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born in January, 1800, in Bridgeton, N. J. He was attorney-general of his state, and a member of both houses of the state legislature. He died Aug. 9, 1871, in Lancaster, Pa.
Chancellor, Charles Wil- Liams
physician, author, was born Feb. 19, 1833, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He is an eminent physician of Baltimore, and the author of Prisons, Reformatories, and Charitable Institutions of Maryland; Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts; Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Maryland; Heredity; and The Sewerage of Cities.
Chancellor, Eustathius
physician, author. In 1878 he was appointed assistant resident physician in the university hospital of Maryland; in 1885 was founder of the Beaumont Hospital Medical college; and is the author of Researches Upon the Treatment of Delirium Tremens and numerous other works.
Chandler, Charles Henry
soldier, journalist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1840, in Prescott, Mass. He served in the thirty-first Massachusetts infantry. He was connected with the Springfield Republican, and later with the Boston Herald as an editorial writer. He published Attractions of Northampton. He died Jan. 4, 1885, in Boston, Mass.
Chandler, Charles Henry
educator, was born Oct. 25, 1840, in New Ipswich, N. H. From 1871 till 1877 he was professor of physics and chemistry, and from 1877 till 1881 professor of mathematics and physics at Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1881 he was appointed to the chair of chemistry and physics at Ripon, Wis., college, and in 1.883 was transferred to the professorship of mathematics and physics.
Chandler, Elizabeth Marga- Ret
was born Dec. 24, 1807, in Wilmington, Del. She was a poetess whose themes were mainly those relating to the subject of anti-slavery, in which she was greatly interested. She received a prize for her poem entitled The Slave-Ship.
She died Nov. 22, 1834, in Michigan.
Chandler, John
soldier, statesman, was born in 1760, in Maine, when a part of Massachusetts, representing it in the state senate from 1803 to 1805, and in congress from 1805 to 1808. In 1812 he was appointed brigadier-general, and took an active part in the Canadian campaign. He was elected to the United States senate in 1820, being one of the first two senators from Maine after its separation from Massachusetts, serving until 1829. In 1829 he was appointed collector of the port of Portland, serving until 1837. He died Sept. 25, 1841, in Augusta, Maine.
Chandler, Joseph Ripley
journalist, diplomat, congressman, author, was born Aug. 25, 1792, in Kingston, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1855; and in 1858 was appointed, by President Buchanan, minister to Naples. After his return he became editor of the Philadelphia North American. In 1821 he published a Grammar of the English Language, and subsequently a large number of Essays and Addresses on subjects connected with Social Life and Literature. He died July 10, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Chandler, Oliver Phelps
lawyer, banker, legislator, was born May 29, 1807, in Peacham, Vt. He was a member of the Vermont state house of representatives for five years, and state senator for three years. From 1847 to 1868 he was the president of the Woodstock bank, and has held various important positions of honor in his state.
Chandler, Peleg Whitman
lawyer, journalist, legislator, author, was born April 13, 1816, in New Gloucester, Maine. In 1834 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and in 1837 was admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass. In 1838 he established The Law Reporter, which he conducted for ten years. In 1841 he published the first volume of a work called American Criminal Trials, and a second volume appeared in 1844. He served as a member of the common council of Boston, and in 1844-45 was its president. In 1845-47 he served with distinction as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. During 1846-53 he was city solicitor of Boston; and in 1854 was a member of the executive council of Massachusetts. He died in 1889, in Boston, Mass.