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606 St. Mary's and solicited baptism. The rite was postponed, and he was advised to return with his family the next year; but the ceremony took place on 5 July, 1640, in the presence of the governor's secretary and the leading people of the settlement. Chilomacon received the name of Charles, and his wife that of Mary, in honor of the king and queen of England. He sent his daughter to St. Mary's to be educated. As she is spoken of as &ldquo;queen of the Piscataways&rdquo; in 1642, Chilomacon probably died soon after his baptism.

CHILSON, Gardner, inventor, b. in Thompson, Conn., in 1804; d. 21 Nov., 1877. He received a public-school education, became apprentice to a cabinet-maker in Stirling, Conn., and removed to Providence, R. I., on coming of age. He went to Boston in 1837, and engaged in the manufacture of stoves and furnaces at Mansfield, Mass. As early as 1844 he devised a furnace that received a prize medal at the London world's fair in 1851. Among his numerous inventions are conical radiators, applied to stoves and furnaces (1854), a cooking-range with two ovens placed above the fire, and arranged so that either or both may be used (1858), and an office stove surmounted with a broad disk, which radiates heat toward the floor (1865).

CHILTON, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Garrard county, Ky., 30 July, 1798 ; d. in Montgomery, Texas, 15 Aug., 1854. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature for several sessions, and for four terms a member of congress from Kentucky, 1829-'37. While practising law with success, he became a Baptist preacher, removed to Alabama, and was elected president of the Alabama Baptist state convention, and soon abandoned the law. In 1842 he became pastor of the Baptist church in Monte:omerv. He afterward removed to Texas.

CHILTON, William P., jurist, b. in Kentucky ; d. in Alabama, 20 Jan., 1871. He was, at different times, a member of each house of the Alabama legislature. In 1848 he was elected to the supreme court of Alabama, serving (a part of the time as chief justice) for a term of ten years. During the existence of the Confederate government, 18j1-'5, he was a member^ of its congress. ^

CHIMALPAIN QUAUTLEHUANITZIN, the Indian name of Domingo or Juan Bautista Anton Muñon, who was a descendant of the caciques of Aineca Ameca, and flourished in the latter part of the 10th century. He was of pure Indian descent, received a good education, taught at the Francis- can college of Santiago Tlatelolco of Mexico, de- voted himself to the study of the old Mexican and other neighboring nations, and wrote several his- torical works in the Nahuatl and Spanish lan- guages. His principal works are " Historia meji- eana antigua, que comprende los sucesos y sucesion de reyes hasta el ano 1526 " ; " Cronica de Mejico desde el aito 1068 hasta el de 1597 de la era vul- gar"; " Apuntamientos de sucesos desde 1064 has- ta 1521"; "Relaciones originales de los reinos de Aculhuacan, Mejico y otras provincias desde muy remotos tiempos " ; and " Relacion de la conquista de Mejico por los espailoles."

CHIMALPOPOCA (che-mal-po-po'-ca), third Mexican or Aztec king (fifth king, according to some accounts), d. in 1423. He was elected by the senate to succeed Iluitzilihuitl on the same day that the latter king died, 2 Feb., 1414. He ad- vised Tayauh or Tayatzin to kill his eldest brother, Maxtla or Maxlaton, who had been recognized heir to their father Tezozomoc, tyrant of Azcapotzalco, but the plot was discovered. Then Maxtla ordered a feast to be prepared in honor of his brother and Chimalpopoca, in order to have them mur- dered together ; but the latter could not go, and Tayauh was the only one killed at the ban- quet. "Maxtla sent a strong detachment to Mexico to imprison Chimalpopoca, who had attempted to commit suicide, and had him taken to Azcapotzal- co, confined in a wooden cage under close surveil- lance, and almost starved to death, when the pris- oner succeeded in taking his own life by hanging from a beam of his cage.

CHIMALPOPOCA, tenth king of Culhuacan, flourished early in the 15th century. He succeed- ed Acamapictli II. as ruler of the Culhuas, and oc- cupied the throne in 1402. He was the last king of their nation, which afterward became tributary of Texcoco. — Chimalpopoca, Tecpanec king of Tlacopan, flourished in the latter part of the 15th century. He was the second king of Tlacopan, hav- ing succeded Totoquiyauhtzin I. in 1409.

CHINCHON, Countess of. Spanish lady, wife of the viceroy of Peru. While residing in that coun- try she became acquainted with the virtues of Pe- ruvian bark, and when she returned to Spain, in 1632, took with her a quantity of the medicinal plant and introduced its use into Europe, first em- ploying it for the cure of malarial fevers about 1640. In honor of her, Linnjeus gave the name cinchona to the genus of plants yielding the bark.

CHIPMAN, Daniel, lawver, b. in Salisbury, Conn., 22 Oct., 1765; d. in Ripton, Vt., 23 April, 1850. In 1775 his father removed to Tinmouth, and Daniel labored on a farm until 1783, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1788. After studying law with his brother Nathaniel, at Rutland, Vt., he began practice there, but in 1794 removed to Middlebury. He became distinguished in his pro- fession, and also in literature ; was made a member of the American academv in 1812 ; professor of law at Middlebury from 1806 till 1816. He represented Rutland in the state constitutional convention of 1793, and was often a member of the legislature between 1794 and 1808, when he was elected a member of the council, and from 1809 till 1815. and again in 1818 and 1821; speaker in 1813-'4; member of congress in 1815-'7; member of the constitutional conventions of 1816 and 1850. Ho was the first reporter of the supreme court of Vermont, and published a treatise on the " Law of Contracts " (Middlebury, 1822) ; a volume of '• Reports of the Supreme Court " (1835) ; biogra- phies of his brother, Nathaniel Chipman, with selections from his papers (Boston, 1846) : Seth Warner and Gen. Thomas Chittenden (1849).— His brother, Nathaniel, jurist, b. in Salisbury, Conn., 15 Nov., 1752; d. in Tinmouth, Vt.. 15 Feb., 1843, was graduated at Yale in 1777. Dur- ing his senior year he obtained a lieutenant's com- mission in the American army, was on duty at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-8, and was present at the battles of Monmouth and White Plains. Resigning his commission in October, 1778. he removed to Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in March, 1779. He then re- moved to Tinmouth, Vt., was a member of the Vermont legislature in 1784-5, a judge of the state supreme court in 1786, and chief justice in 1789. In that year he was one of the commis- sioners on behalif of Vermont to adjust difl'erences with New Vork, and in 1791 to negotiate the ad- mission of Vermont into the Union. In 1791 ho was appointed by Washington judge of the U. S. district court of Vermont, which he resigned in 1793; in October, 1796, was again chosen chief justice of the supreme court, and at the same time was appointed one of a committee to revise the statutes, the duties of which were almost