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collection how he used to play horse and jump rope with them in a thoroughly boyish spirit, even at an advanced age.

In appearance, Dr. Channing was of medium height, of substantial build, florid complexion, with blue-gray eyes. His temper was somewhat quick when excited by anything that he considered an injustice, but was well under control.

There is a portrait of him painted by Ames about the year I860, which is a fair likeness.

He was a Unitarian and a great ad- mirer of his brother William Ellery Channing, the clergyman, and a joke which he made in connection with him has appeared in various papers even to the present time. Someone calling at his house asked for Dr. Channing and on hearing the inquiry the doctor said, "Which Dr. Channing? My brother preaches and I practise."

Dr. Channing married twice, first to Barbara Higginson Perkins, daughter of Samuel G. Perkins, of Brookline, Mass- achusetts, and second to Elizabeth Wainwright, of the Boston family of that name. He had one son, William Ellery second, the poet who died at Concord in December, 1901, and three daughters. Dr. Channing died July 27, 1876 at Brookline, very peacefully, after a short illness, at the age of ninety years and three months. W. L. B.

Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Aug. 24,

1876, vol. xcv.

Now York Daily Tribune, 1876.

Recollections by Carolyn Sturgis Channing

Cabot (granddaughter of Walter Channing)

and G. E. Channing, a grandson.

History of the Harvard Med. School, T. F.

Harrington (port.).

Chapman, Chandler Burnell (1815-1877). Chandler Burnell Chapman was born in Middlebury, Vermont, July 7, 1815, and jcruduated from a college of medicine in the state of New York, in which city he was married to Mary Eugenia Pease June, 1837. The young couple settled in Trumbull County, Ohio, where Dr. nan practised until May 1846, when he moved to Madison, Wisconsin,

then a settlement of less than four hundred persons. He accomplished the journey in one week's time by means of private conveyance, steamboat and stage. In addition to his practice, in the early fifties he conducted a school of medicine. Later Dr. Chapman devoted a part of his time to his duties as professor of chemis- try and other studies at Miami and Cin- cinnati Colleges of Medicine. Among his published works is an "Agricultural Chemistry." At the outbreak of the Civil War he accompanied the sixth Wisconsin Regiment as surgeon and later was appointed surgeon of the famous "Iron Brigade." During the later years of the war Dr. Chapman served as medical director of the Army of the Rio Grande under Gen. Herron, his entire service covering the period between June, 1861 and August, 1864. Not infrequently he did operations which would be considered difficult at this time and to be under- taken only by the foremost surgeons. He was one of the organizers of the Dane County Medical Society.

Chapman made two journe3'S to the old world, spending a year and more each time, observing with great interest a number of the earliest operations per- formed under anesthetics, and spent much of his time in visiting the hospitals of Great Britain and the Continent.

During the later years of his life he became deeply interested in the devel- opment of the state of Kansas.

He died at his home in Madison May 18, 1877, leaving a widow, a daughter, Eugenia Gillette, and a son, Chandler Pease. C. S. S.

The Hist, of Dane Co., Wis.

Chapman, Nathaniel (1780-1853).

The Chapmans were old settlers in Virginia on the Pamunkey River, and Nathaniel was born in Fairfax County on the Potomac May 28, 1780, and is to be remembered because of his conception of medicial journalism and the impulse he gave it through many long laborious years. As a boy he went to the Alex- andria Academy and when seventeen