Chittenden, Ezra P – Christiancy, Isaac P
Chittenden, Ezra P
educator, clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1851, in Westbrook, Conn. As an educator he has been professor of mental and physical sciences in the St. John's school of Salina, Kan.; and he has filled many important pastorates in the congregational church.
The work of his life is The Pleroma, a Poem of the Christ, the brilliancy of which proves him to be a musical and scholarly poet.
Chittenden, Lucius Eugene
lawyer, author, was born in 1824, in Vermont. He is the author of Personal Reminiscences; Recollections of Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical episode of the war between the states; and The Capture of Ticonderoga.
Chittenden, Martin
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born March 12, 1769, in Salisbury, Conn. He was a member of the convention that adopted the United States constitution; in 1790 was elected county clerk and representative, to which position he was re-elected for six years successively, and also at occasional subsequent intervals. He was judge of the county court from 1793 to 1795; chief justice from 1796 to 1803; and was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1813. He was governor of Vermont in 1813 and 1814; and was judge of probate in 1821 and 1822. He died Sept. 5, 1841, in Williston, Vt.
Chittenden, Russell Henry
educator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1856, in New Haven, Conn. He is a professor of chemistry in the Sheffield scientific school at Yale university, and the author of Studies from the Laboratory of Physiology and Chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School; and On Digestive Proteolysis.
Chittenden, Simeon Baldwin
railroad president, congressman, was born March 29, 1814, in Guilford, Conn. He was vice-president of the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1867 to 1869; one of the directors in the Continental bank, and New London Shore-Line Railroad of Connecticut. He was elected to the fortythird congress, to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died April 14, 1889, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chittenden, Simeon Dudley
railroad manager, was born July 20, 1851, in Guilford, Conn. During 1873-94 he was connected with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad; and since 1895 has been general manager of the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad.
Chittenden, T. C
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was elected a representative from that state to the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh congresses.
Chittenden, Thomas
soldier, legislator, governor, was born Jan. 6, 1730, in East Guilford, Conn. He was for many years a representative in the legislature, and justice of the peace. In 1774 he moved to the New Hampshire grants, as Vermont was then called, and settled at Williston, on the Onion river. He rendered service to the state in the councils during the revolution; was a member of the convention in 1777 which declared Vermont an independent state, and was one of the commissioners to solicit admission into the confederacy. In 1777 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; president of the council of safety; and in 1778 was chosen governor of the state, and, with the exception of one year, filled that office until his death. He died Aug. 24, 1797, in Williston, Vt.
Chittick, Oliver Usher Fun- Ston
clergyman, was born Oct. 13, 1870, in Canada. He received a thorough collegiate education; has attained distinction as an eloquent clergyman of the methodist church, and now fills a pastorate in Washta, Iowa.
Chivers, Thomas Holley
physician, poet, was born in 1807. He was a Georgia physician and poet, and the author of Virginalia, or Songs of My Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epic in Three Lustra; and The Lost Pleiad. He died in 1858.
Choate, David
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1796. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature. He held the office of trial justice for many years in Essex, and was an active supporter of benevolent institutions. He died Dec. 15, 1872, in Essex, Mass.
Choate, Isaac Bassett
educator, poet, was born July 12, 1833, in Naples, Maine. He is an educator of Boston, and the author of Elements of English Speech; and Wells of English.
Choate, Joseph Hodges
lawyer, was born Jan. 24, 1832, in Salem, Mass.
As one of the old committee of seventy, which routed the Tweed ring, he obtained the reinstatement of Gen. Fitz John Porter to his rank in the army after a prolonged struggle, and successfully defended the Cesnola collection of ancient statuary in the Metropolitan Museum of Art against imputations affecting its integrity.
Choate, Rufus
lawyer, statesman, author, was born Oct. 1, 1799, in Essex, Mass. In 1825 he was elected a representative to the Massachusetts legislature; and in 1827 was in the senate of the same state. In 1832 he was elected member of congress from the Essex district; declined a reelection in 1834, and removed to Boston, to devote himself to his profession. On the retirement of Mr. a Webster from the senate, Mr. Choate was elected to fill the vacancy. He was the author of Addresses and Orations. He died July 13, 1850, in Halifax, N. S.
Choate, William Gardiner
jurist, was born about 1830 in Massachusetts.
For some time he was United States judge of the southern district of New York, an office which he resigned to resume the practice of his profession in New York city.
Chope, Edward B
soldier, entomologist, was born in 1839, in Detroit, Mich. He served three years in the army during the civil war; and was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. In 1888 he became connected with the Milwaukee Public museum, and since 1896 with the Field Columbian museum of Chicago; and has attained prominence as a noted entomologist.
Chopin, Mrs. Kate
author, was born in 1851 in Missouri. She is a writer of St.
Louis, and the author of Bayou Folk; and At Fault, a novel.
Choules, John Overton
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 5, 1801, in England. He was a baptist clergyman of Newport, and the author of History of Missions; Christian Offering; Young Americans Abroad; and Cruise of Steam Yacht North Star. He died Jan. 5, 1856, in New York city.
Chouteau, Pierre
fur merchant.
About 1806 he visited Dubuque in a canoe to trade with the Sac and Fox Indians.
Several other large dealers in furs were at times the partners of Mr. Chouteau, among them, John Jacob Astor of New York. In 1834 his associates and he purchased Mr. Astor's interest in the American Fur company.
Chrisman, James S
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a member of the constitutional convention of that state in 1849; and a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855. He was a member of the executive council of the state from 1861 to 1865, and was a member of the confederate congress during its existence.
Christensen, Christian T
soldier, was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Denmark.
He served in the civil war and attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1890 he was elected president of the Brooklyn Trust company.
Christian, George Clark
soldier, lawyer, lecturer, politician, was born Feb. 20, 1841, in Elkton, Ky. He served during the war in the confederate army, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He has taken an active part in politics, and was for many years one of the leaders of the prohibition party in the United States.
For twenty years he was professor of medical jurisprudence and insanity in the Bennett Medical college of Chicago, and was one of the founders of that institution. He founded the Inter-State Summer Normal and Educational assembly of Eureka Springs, Ark., and was its manager for three years.
Christian, George Henry
miller, was born Jan. 14, 1839, in Alabama. In 1867 he moved from Chicago to Minneapolis; and later, with C. C. Washburn, engaged extensively in the flouring industry there. The business was conducted under the name of Geo. H. Christian and Co. until 1875, when the senior partner retired, and his properties were transferred to the Northwestern Consolidated Milling company. He is now president and chief owner of the Hardwood Manufacturing company of Minneapolis, Minn.
Christian, Joseph
state senator, jurist, was born July 10, 1828, in Middlesex county, Va. Before and during the war he was a member of the senate of Virginia, and at its close he was made a district judge, and soon advanced to the supreme court of appeals. His name has been prominent as a candidate for the United States senate, and also for the supreme court of the United States.
Christiancy, Isaac P
lawyer, statesman, was born March, 1812, in Johnstown, N. Y. He was prosecuting attorney for Monroe county, and in 1848 attended the free soil convention in Buffalo. In 1849 he was elected to the state senate; in 1852 was the candidate for governor of the free soil party, and was a prime mover in the political combinations of 1854. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention of 1856, and soon afterwards purchased The Monroe Commercial and became its editor. In 1857 he was elected a judge of the supreme court of the state, and in 1865 re-elected for eight years by the unanimous vote of all parties. He served as an officer on the staffs of Generals A. A. Humphreys and G. A. Custer during the rebellion; and was elected a senator in congress from Michigan for the term ending in 1881, and resigned in January, 1879, to accept the appointment of United States minister to Peru. He died Sept. 8, 1890, in Lansing, Mich. man.