Chassaignac, Charles Louis – Cheney, Benjamin Pierce
Chassaignac, Charles Louis
surgeon, was born Jan. 25, 1862, in New Orleans, La. He attended the New Orleans central high school; college of Brothers of the Sacred Heart; and graduated in medicine from the university of Louisiana. He has been president of the Orleans parish medical society; and is now professor of genito-urinary and rectal diseases in the New Orleans polyclinic. He is president of the New Orleans sanitarium; editor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal; and has held other medical positions of honor.
Chastain, Edward W
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress, from Georgia, from 1851 to 1855.
Chatard, Francis Silas
bishop, author, was born in 1834 in Baltimore, Md. He is the Roman catholic bishop of Vincennes, Ind., and the author of Christian Truths.
Chatfield, a. G
jurist. He was an early emigrant to Minnesota, and in 1853 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Minnesota.
CHATFIELD - TAYLOR, HOBART CHATFIELD, author, was born in 1865 in Illinois. He is the author of With Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two Women and a Fool; and The Land of the Castanet.
Chatterton, Fenimore
lawyer, legislator, was born July 21, 1860, in Oswego, N. Y. During 1870-78 he attended the public schools of Washington, D. C., and the preparatory department of the Columbia college. In 1888 he was treasurer and probate judge of Carbon county, Wyo.; in 1890-92 was state senator for two terms; the latter year serving as vice-president of the state senate. In 1894-96 he served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Carbon; and is known as one of the foremost lawyers in the west, with a large practice at Rawlins, Wyo.
Chauncey, Charles
lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 1747, in Durham, Conn.
He became state's attorney in 1776. He was a judge of the superior court from 1789 till 1793, and was for forty years a lecturer on jurisprudence. He was the principal founder and president of the first agricultural society in Connecticut.
He died April 28, 1823, in New Haven, Conn.
Chauncey, Isaac
naval officer, was born Feb. 20, 1772, in Black Rock, Conn.
He made several successful voyages to the East Indies in the ships of John Jacob Astor. He distinguished himself in several actions off Tripoli and was thanked by congress for his services. He served with distinction in the war of 1812; and in 1833-40 was president of the board of navy commissioners in Washington, D.
C., in which city he died Jan. 27, 1840.
Chauncy, Charles
clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1592 in England. He was a puritan clergyman, vicar of Ware in 1627-35. He came to America in 1638, and was thirteen years minister at Scituate. He was the second president of Harvard college, succeeding Henry Dunster in 1654. His most important work is a series of twenty-six Sermons on Justification. Antisynodalia Scripta America, a controversial pamphlet, appeared in 1662. He died Feb. 19,
Chauncy, Charles
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 1, 1705, in Boston. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; Discourse on Enthusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of whose teachings he was a strong opponent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete View of Episcopacy; The Mystery Hid from the Ages; Benevolence of the Deity; Five Dissertations on the Fall and its Consequences; and Validity of Presbyterian Ordination. He died Feb. 10, 1787.
Chauvenet, Regis
chemist, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa.
From 1872 till 1875 he was chemist to the Missouri geological survey, and for some time held a similar relation to the city of St. Louis. In the year 1883 he became professor of chemistry and president of the Colorado state school of mines in Golden.
Chauvenet, William
author, was born May 24, 1820, in Milford, Pa. He was a mathematician who was chancellor of Washington university, St. Louis, in 1862- 69. He was the author of Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; and Elementary Geometry. He died Dec. 13, 1870, in St. Paul, Minn.
Chavez, J. Francisco
soldier, congressman, was born June 27, 1833, in Padillas, N. M. He was appointed major of the first regiment of infantry raised in New Mexico; after participating in several battles and seeing much active service on the frontier he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1865 he was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a democrat.
Chavis, Jordan Douglas
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 9, 1863, near Greensboro, N. C.
Since 1893 he has been president of the Bennett college of Greensboro, N. C. He completed his college course in 1887, and attained success as an educator and methodist clergyman.
Cheadle, Joseph B
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1842, in Perrysville, Ind. He entered the editorial profession, which occupation he has since followed. He was elected to the fiftieth congress and re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Cheatham, Henry Plummer
congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1857, in Granville, N. C. He was elected principal of the Plymouth state normal school immediately after his graduation, and served in that capacity until 1885. He is the only colored representative in the fifty-first congress. He was elected to the fifty-first and re-elected to the fifty-sécond congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.
Cheatham, Richard
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Tennessee, from 1837 to 1839. He died in September, 1845.
Checkley, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1680 in Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island, noted in his day for his witty, reckless attacks on his theological opponents. He was the author of Choice Dialogues About Predestination. He died in 1753 in Providence, R. I.
Cheesman, John Cummings
physician, was born July 20, 1788, in New York city. He held many important offices, among which were surgeon to the Charity hospital on Blackwell's island, and surgeon to Bellevue hospital. For forty years he was professionally connected with the New York hospital. He died Oct. 11, 1862, in New York city.
Cheetham, James
journalist, author, was born in 1772 in England. He was an English journalist who came to America in 1798, and became editor of The American Citizen. He was the author of Nine Letters on Burr's Defection; Reply to Aristides; and Life of Thomas Paine, a work written from a hostile point of view. He died Sept. 10, 1810, in New York city.
Cheever, Alonzo W
farmer, lecturer, journalist, was born Feb. 27, 1831, in Wrentham, Mass. He was state cattle commissioner during 1885-92; and has lectured on agriculture in all the northeastern states, state institute service. Since 1873 he has been agricultural editor of The New England Farmer.
Cheever, Ezekiel
educator, author, was born Jan. 25, 1614, in London, England. He was a colonial educator of Boston, who was master of the Latin school for many years, and was author of Scripture Prophecies Explained, an essay on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for a century a standard introductory Latin text-book in New England. He died Aug. 21, 1708, in Boston, Mass.
CHEEVER, GEORGE BARRELL, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1807, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a noted congregational clergyman of New York city, and the author of Deacon Giles's Distillery; Studies in Poetry; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc; Lectures on Pilgrim's Progress; Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; God Against Slavery; Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; The Guilt of Slavery; The Republic or the Oligarchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt, and Evidence; God's Timepiece for Man's Eternity; Lectures on Cowper; and Windings of the River of the Water of Life. He died Oct. 1, 1890, in Englewood, N. J.
Cheever, Henry Martyn
lawyer, was born June 20, in Stillwater, N. Y. He attained success as a lawyer; has lectured on Presbyterianism and Catholicity; was organizer of the Westminster church of Detroit; and trustee of several large institutions of Detroit, Mich.
Cheever, Henry Theodore
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 6, 1814, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a congregational clergyman, and the author of Way Marks in the Moral War with Slavery; Correspondences of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon; The Island World of the Pacific; Life in the Sandwich Islands; The Whale and his Captors; The Pulpit and the Pew; Life of Nathaniel Cheever; Life of Walter Colton; and Captain Caugar. He died in 1897.
Cheever, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 22, 1787, in North Brookfield, Mass. He was elected district attorney at Troy, N. Y.; and was elected the first county judge of Albany, N. Y. He died Sept. 25, 1874, in Waterford, N. Y.
Cheney, Arthur
was born Jan. 14, 1837, in South Manchester, Conn. He interested himself in the drama and built the Globe theater of Boston, originally called Selwyn's theater, for the purpose of giving the best plays in a thorough and artistic way. He died in December, 1878, in South Manchester, Conn.
Cheney, Benjamin Pierce
pioneer, was born Aug. 12, 1815, in New England. In 1880 he merged his business into that of the American Express company, taking stock in payment. He was promptly made a director of the American Express company, and remained such the rest of his life, being the largest individual stockholder in the company. He died July 23, 1895, in Wellesley, Mass.