Chandler, Samuel – Chapin, Edwin Hubbell
Chandler, Samuel
soldier, state legislator, was born in 1794, in Massachusetts. After being a member of both branches of the legislature, he was, in 1840, elected sheriff of Middlesex, and held that office until 1855. He was also major-general of the state militia for many years. He died July 20, 1867, in Lexington, Mass.
Chandler, Thomas
soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1772, in Bedford, N. H. He was a justice of the quorum in 1808; and a captain of militia in 1815. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1827; and a representative in congress from his native state from 1829 to 1833. His brother, John Chandler, was also in congress, and he was the uncle of the senator, Zachariah Chandler. He died Jan. 28, 1866, in Bedford, N. H.
Chandler, W. T
physician, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1852, in Campbellsville, Ky. This prominent physician is the author of a volume of poems entitled Rustic Rhymes. a
Chandler, William Eaton
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1835, in Concord, N. H. During 1862-64 he was member of the New Hampshire house of representatives, and served as its speaker during the last two years.
In 1865 he became solicitor and judge advocate general of the navy department; and was subsequently appointed first assistant secretary of the treasury. In 1881 he was again a member of the state legislature; and in 1882-85 was secretary of the navy. In 1887 he was elected to the United States senate to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the same office for term expiring in 1901. He resides in Concord, N. H., and his portrait hangs in the Library building of the state capitol.
Chandler, William Henry
chemist, was born Dec. 13, 1841, in New Bedford, Mass. In 1871 he became professor of chemistry at Lehigh university, and in 1878 was made director of the library. In 1876 he was a juror at the Philadelphia centennial exhibition, and in 1878 at the Paris exhibition. His contributions to chemical literature have appeared principally in the American Chemist, of which from 1870 till 1877 he and his brother, Charles F. Chandler, were editors.
Chandler, Zachariah
statesman, was born Dec. 10, 1813, in Bedford, N. H.
He was mayor of Detroit, Mich., in 1851; was elected a senator in congress, from Michigan, to succeed Senator Cass, taking his seat in the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the senate in 1863, for the term ending in 1.869. He was also a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866; and re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1875. In 1875 he was appointed secretary of the interior; served in that capacity until March, 1877; and in 1879 was elected United States senator, to fill a vacancy.
He died Nov. 1, 1879, in Chicago, Ill.
Chaney, George Leonard
clergyman, author, was born in 1826, in Massachusetts. He is a unitarian clergyman, and pastor in Atlanta, Ga., where he edited the Southern Unitarian in 1893-96. He was the founder of the Church of Our Father in Atlanta. He is the author of F. Grant and Co., a story for boys; Tom, a Home Story; Aloha, travels in the Sandwich Islands; Every Day Life and Every Day Morals; and Belief. was
Chaney, John
congressman, born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1839.
Chaney, Lucien West
educator, biologist, author, was born June 26, 1857, in Hamilton, N. Y. He is a naturalist, professor of biology in Carleton college, Minnesota, since 1882, and is the author of Guides for the Laboratory.
Chanfrau, Frank
actor, was born Feb. 22, 1824, in New York city. As Kit, in The Arkansas Traveller, first given in Buffalo, in 1869, he achieved the most enduring success of his professional career, and in this character he appeared continuously for thirteen years. He died Oct. 2, 1884.
Chanler, Amelie Rives
author, was born Aug. 23, 1863, in Richmond, Va.
In 1888 she published her first novel, entitled The Quick or the Dead; and in 1891 published According to St. John. She is the author of several poems, the most notable of which is Asmodeus, Son of Bel.
Chanler, John Winthrop
congressman, was born in 1826, in New York city. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1859 and 1860, and declined a renomination. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a democrat.
Channing, Edward
educator, author, was born June 15, 1856, in Boston, Mass. He has been a professor of history at Harvard university since 1883; and is the author of Guide to the Study of American History; Town and County Government of the English Colonies of North America; Narragansett Planters; and The United States of America.
Channing, Edward Tyrrel
educator, author, was born Dec. 12, 1790, in Newport, R. I. He was a professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard university; and was the author of Life of William Ellery; and Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory. He died Feb. 8, 1856, in Cambridge, Mass.
Channing, Walter
educator, physician, author, was born April 15, 1786, in Newport, R. I. He was a physician of prominence in Boston for many years, and medical professor in Harvard university. He was the author of The Prevention of Pauperism; Etherization in Childbirth; Professional Reminiscences of Foreign Travel; New and Old; Miscellaneous Poems; A Physician's Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; and Reformation of Medical Science. He died July 27, 1876, in Boston, Mass.
Channing, William Ellery
clergyman, author, was born April 7, 1780, in Newport, R. I. He was a unitarian theologian of eminence, who became pastor of the Federal street church in Boston in 1803. He was the foremost theologian in America in his time, and his influence is still great. He wrote upon philanthropic and social as well as religious and ethical questions, and was a noted opponent of slavery. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, Icelandic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evidences of Revealed Religion; Self-Culture. He is the author of Essay on Milton; and The Duty of the Free States, are among his most notable works. He died Oct. 2, 1842, in Bennington, Vt. .
Channing, William Ellery
author, poet, was born June 10, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of The Wanderer; Near Home; Eliot; and John Brown. Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; and Conversations in Rome between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose volumes.
Channing, William Francis
physician, scientist, inventor, author, was born Feb. 22, 1820, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Davis' Manual of Magnetism; Medical Application of Electricity; and The American Fire Alarm Telegraph.
Chapelle, Placidus L
archbishop, was born Aug. 28, 1842, in France. In 1859 he emigrated to America, and finished his theological studies at the St. Mary's seminary of Baltimore, Md. In 1.865 he was ordained priest; was rector of a church at Rockville, Mo., for five years; and then rector of St. Joseph's church of Baltimore until 1882. From that time he was rector of St. Matthew's church of Washington, D. C., until 1891.
He was then appointed assistant bishop of New Mexico, and in 1894 became the third archbishop of Santa Fe.
Chapin, Aaron Lucius
clergyman, college president, author, was born Feb. 6, 1817, in Hartford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Wisconsin, who was president of Beloit college in 1849-86. He was the author of First Principles of Political Economy. He died in 1892.
Chapin, Alfred Clark
congressman, was born March 8, 1848, in Hadley, Mass. In 1887 he was elected mayor of Brooklyn; and in 1891 was chosen to represent his district in the fifty-second congress.
Chapin, Alonzo Bowen
clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1808, in Somers, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman of Hartford; and the author of Classical Spelling-Book; Organization and Order of the Primitive Church; Views of Gospel Truth; Glastonbury for 200 Years; and Puritanism not Protestantism. He died July 9, 1858, in Hartford, Conn.
Chapin, Bela
journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1829, in Newport, N. H. He was a printer, and in 1866 became proprietor of the Dartmouth printing and bookbinding establishment in Hanover, N. H. In 1882 he edited and published Poets of New Hampshire, a very valuable collection.
He has contributed numerous poems to current publications; and has made a translation in verse of Virgil's Eclogues.
He is the proprietor of the Granby Brook fruit and dairy farm of Claremont, N. H.; and has a library of two thousand volumes of standard works.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1814, in Union Village, N. Y. He was a universalist clergyman of New York city, long the foremost preacher in his denomination. He is the author of The Crown of Thorns; Humanity in the City; Christianity the Perfection of True Manliness; Moral Aspects of City Life; Discourses on the Lord's Prayer; Hours of Communion; Token for the Sorrowing; and Characters in the Gospels. He died Dec. 27, 1880, in New York city.