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 CHANCELLOR

CHANNING

was his establishment of the Dale General Hospital in Worcester, Mass- achusetts, in 1864.

Returning from the war he settled in Lawrence, being associated with Dr. George W. Garland, whose daughter, Anna E., he married in 1864.

He had a large practice in Lawrence and died in Jamaica Plain, July 18, 1899. W. L. B.

Bos. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. clxi.

Biog. Ency. of Mass. of the 19tb. Cen. 1S79.

Chancellor, James Edgar (1S26-1S96).

Army surgeon and anatomist, of a lineage that can be traced back over nine hundred years, he was a descendant of Richard Chancellor who came to Virginia in 16S2, and was the son of George Chancellor of Chancellorsville, Virginia, since the Civil War an historic hamlet. There he was born on January 26, 1S26. Educated at an academy at Fredericks- burg, Virginia, he then read medicine under Dr. G. F. Carmichael, and ma- triculated as a student of medicine at the University of Virginia in 1S46. The following session he attended lectures at the Jefferson medical College in Phila- delphia, graduating in 1848.

He settled in his native place, but later moved to the county seat, and by the beginning of the Civil War had a large practice.

He was elected vice-president in 1S71 of the Medical Society of Virginia and again in 1874, and president in 1883.

Commissioned assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army in 1861 and surgeon in 1862, he served through- out the war in the General Military Hospital at Charlottesville, Virginia, with the exception that in 1864 he was sent as one of the reserve corps of surgeons to the battlefields of the Wilderness, Spott- sylvania Court House, etc. In October, 1865, he was made demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Virginia, and filled this position until 1872, when heresigned. In 1885 he was elected and served one term as prof essor of diseases

of women and children in the University of Florida, but resigned and returned to Virginia.

He married in 1S53 Josephine Ander- son of Spottsylvania County, and had six children of whom five survived their father. The eldest son, Edgar A., became a physician. His wife died in 1862, and in 1867 he married Mrs. Gabriella Garth Mays of Albemarle County, but had no more children. He died at his home near the University of Virginia on September 11, 1896. Among his numerous valuable communi- cations to medical literature were:

"Iodoform as a Local Remedy in Syphilitic, Scrofulous and Indolent Ul- cers." ("Transactions of Medical Society of Virginia," 1877.)

" Origin and History of Ancient Medi- cine." ("Presidential Address," ibid., 1884.)

"Poisoning by Datura Stramonium." ("Virginia Medical Monthly," vol. v.)

"Treatment of Ingrowing Toe-nail." (ibid., vol. vi.)

"Mineral Waters of Virginia." (ibid., vol. x.)

"Review of the Medical History of the Middle Ages." (ibid., vol. xi.)

R. M. S.

Va. Med. Semi-Mon., vol. i.

Watson's Physicians and Surgeons of Amer.

Charming, Walter (1786-1876).

Walter Channing was born in New- port, Rhode Island, April 15, 1786, and died in Brookline, Massachusetts, July 27, 1876. He was the son of William Channing, an attorney of Newport, Rhode Island, who at one time served as attorney-general of the state and also as United States district attorney, and of Lucy Ellery, daughter of William Ellery, a signer of the "Declaration of Independence," to whom several ol his grandsons were indebted in great part for their education preliminary to en- tering college, among them being Dr. Channing's brothers, William Ellery Channing, the Unitarian clergyman, and Edward Tyrrel Channing, professor of