Chester, Albert Huntington – Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria
Chester, Albert Huntington
educator, author, was born Nov. 22, 1843, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He is a professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Hamilton college, and the author of Dictionary of the Names of Minerals; and Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemical Composition and Synonyms.
Chester, Frederick Dixon Walthall
geologist, was born Oct. 8, 1861, in West Indies. He is a geologist of Delaware who has written many monographs upon local state geology.
Chester, John
soldier, state legislator, was born Jan. 29, 1749, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was a representative in the legislature in 1772, served with distinction as a captain at the battle of Bunker Hill, became a colonel, and continued in the continental army until 1777. Afterward he sat in the Connecticut legislature, in which he was chosen speaker; was a member of the council in 1788- 91 and 1803; supervisor of the district of Connecticut from 1791 to 1801. He died Nov. 4, 1809, in Wethersfield, Conn.
Chester, Joseph Lemuel
journalist, author, was born April 30, 1821, in Norwich, Conn. He was a Philadelphia journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for the crime of teaching free colored cnildren to read; John Rogers, the Compiler of the English Bible; and Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent seventeen years' labor.
He edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. He died May 28, 1882, in London, England.
Chesterman, Alonzo Decatur
A. M., educator, was born Jan. 15, 1840, in Hanover county, Va. In 1860 he graduated from the Hampden Sidney college, Virginia. He has been principal of the Florence academy, Alabama; principal of the Marshall state normal college, West Virginia; principal of the Holly Springs normal institute, and of the classical school, Mississippi.
Chestnut, James
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1815, in Camden, S. C. He was a member of the state legislature in 1842-52; from 1854 to 1858 was a member of the state senate; and was appointed to the United States senate, taking his seat during the second session of the thirty-fifth congress.
Chetlain, Augusta Louis
soldier, banker, was born Dec. 26, 1824, in St.
Louis, Mo. He attended the common schools of Galena, Ill.; became a merchant in that city; and was the first volunteer at a meeting held in response to the president's call after the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the twelfth regiment Illinois infantry; and in 1863 was promoted brigadier-general. He raised a force of seventeen thousand men, for which service he was brevetted major-general; and served gallantly for five years in the war. During 1867-69 he was assessor of internal revenue for the district of Utah; and was then appointed United States consul at Brussels. During 1872-93 he was engaged as a banker and stockbroker in Chicago.
Chetwood, John
lawyer, author, was born April 28, 1859, in Elizabeth, N.
J. He graduated from the law school of the Columbia college, and has attained prominence as a lawyer. He is the author of Immigration Fallacies; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Chetwood, William
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1769, in Elizabethtown, N. J. He at one time served in the state council of New Jersey; and was elected to congress from that state, to fill a vacancy during the administration of President Jackson. He died Dec. 18, 1857, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Cheverus, Jean L
Roman catholic bishop, was born Jan. 28, 1768, in France. In 1808 the diocese of Boston was created, and in 1810 he was consecrated first bishop of Boston. In 1818 he purchased and dedicated St. Augustine's, the first catholic cemetery in Boston. In 1823 he returned to France, and in 1836 was proclaimed a cardinal. He died July 19, 1836.
Cheves, Langdon
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1776, in Rocky River, S. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1808; was a presidential elector in 1809; and afterward attorney-general of the state. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1811 to 1816, and was speaker during the second session of the thirteenth congress. He was also a commissioner of claims under the treaty of Ghent; judge of the court of common pleas from 1816 to 1819, and for a time president of the United States bank. He died June 25, 1857, in Columbia, S. C.
Chew, Benjamin
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 29, 1722, in West River, Md. In 1774 he became chief justice of the state of Pennsylvania. For several years was speaker in the house of delegates; and in 1790 was appointed president of the high court of errors and appeals. He died Jan. 20, 1810.
Chickering, Charles A
educator, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1843, in Harrisburg, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly in 1879, 1880, and 1881; was elected clerk of the assembly in 1884, and re-elected in 1885- 90. He has been chairman of the republican county committee of Lewis county, secretary of the republican state committee, and also a member of the executive committee of that body. He was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican.
Chickering, Jesse
physician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1797, in Dover, N. H. He was a Boston physician who was a unitarian minister in his earlier career, and later became a noted writer on political economy. He was the author of Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the United States; Reports on the Census of Boston; and Letter to the President on Slavery in Relation to Constitutional Government in Great Britain and the United States. He died May 29, 1855, in West Roxbury, Mass.
Chickering, John White
clergyman, author, was born in 1808, in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, in 1835-65, and the author of What it is to Believe in Christ, a very widely circulated tract; and The Hillside Church.
Chickering, Jonas
manufacturer, inventor, was born April 5, 1797, in New Ipswich, N. H. He manufactured Chickering pianos; and invented various improvements. He died Dec. 8, 1853, in Boston, Mass.
Chickering, Thomas Edward
soldier, manufacturer, was born Oct. 22, 1824, in Boston, Mass. The Chickerings developed a piano of brilliant quality, which vied with the Steinway piano for the favor of musicians and the public, and has been practically the only American rival of the Steinway among those who are content with nothing less than first-class instruments. The principal salesroom of the firm was in New York city. In 1862 he left Boston in command of the forty-first Massachusetts volunteers, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadier-general. He died Feb. 14, 1871, in Boston, Mass.
Chilcott, George Miles
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born Jan. 2, 1828, in Huntingdon, Pa. He was elected to the territorial legislature.
In 1859 he settled in Colorado; in 1861 was elected to the legislature of that territory; in 1862 was admitted to the bar of the same; and in 1863 was appointed a register of the land office, serving four years. In 1866 he was elected a delegate from Colorado to the fortieth congress; and in 1882 was appointed a United States senator from Colorado, to fill a vacancy.
He died March 6, 1891, in St. Louis, Mo.
Child, David Lee
journalist, was born July 8, 1794, in West Boylston, Mass.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1817; was secretary of legation in Lisbon about 1820, and was admitted to the bar. He edited the Massachusetts Journal about 1830, and while a member of the legislature denounced the annexation of Texas, afterward publishing a pamphlet on the subject, entitled Naboth's Vineyard. With his wife he edited the Anti-Slavery Standard in New York in 1843-44. He was distinguished for the independence of his character, and the boldness with which he denounced social wrongs. He died Sept. 18, 1874, in Wayland, Mass.
Child, Francis James
educator, author, was born Feb. 1, 1825, in Boston, Mass. He was a professor at Harvard university in 1851-96, and the foremost authority upon all matters pertaining to ballad literature. He edited the American edition of The British Poets, in 130 volumes; English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Debate between the Body and the Soul, and other specimens of mediæval literature. As a Chaucerian scholar he had few equals. He was the author of Observations on the Language of Chaucer; and Observations on the Language of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria
author, was born Feb. 11, 1802, in Medford, Mass.
She was a famous writer whose literary career began with the publication of Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, and closed with Aspirations of the World, in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of her popularity by her Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans, and was ever after prominent as an abolitionist, assisting her husband in editing the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among her other works are included The Rebels, a novel in which occurs a speech by James Otis and a sermon by Whitefield, long supposed to be real and not imaginary; The First Settlers of New England; The Mother's Book; The Girl's Book; Philothea, a Greek romance; The Power of Kindness; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, a popular biography of a noted Quaker abolitionist; The Progress of Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman's Book; and Miria, a Romance of the Republic. She died Oct. 20, 1880, in Wayland, Mass.