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68 expired term of Austin F. Pike, deceased. He has been a member of the Republican national committee since 1893, and in tliis same year he was appointed by President Harrison minister to the repul)lic of Switzerland. Since its organization in 1874 Mr. Cheney has been president of the People's savings bank of JIanchester.

CHESTER, Colby Mitchell, naval officer, b. in New London, Conn., 29 Feb., 1844. He was graduated at the U. S. naval academy, and in 1863 was ordered as ensign to the " Richmond," participating in the operations against Mobile and in the famous naval battle of Mobile fought by Farragut. In 1866 he became a master, in 1867 a lieutenant, and in June, 1896, received his com- mission as captain. He commanded the " Galena " in 1886, from 1890 to 1894 was commandant of cadets at Annapolis, in 1897 was in command of the Asiatic squadron, and during the war with Spain was in command of the " Cincinnati." Capt. Chester was in 1899 assigned to the command of the new and powerful battle-ship " Kentucky."

CHILTON, Horace, senator, b. in Smith coun- ty, Texas, 29 Dec. 1853. He is an attorney-at- law, and was a delegate-at-large to the national Democratic convention held at St. Ijouis in 1888. He was appointed U. S. senator by Gov. Hogg to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of John H. Reagan in April, 1891, but failed of election when the legislature convened. Mr. Chilton be- came a candidate again in 1894, made a success- ful canvass of the state, and was elected as the successor of Richard Coke (wlio declined to be a candidate), 23 Jan., 1895. Senator Chilton's term of service will expire 8 March, 1901.

CHILTON, Robert Hall, soldier, b. in Loudon county, Va., in 1817; d. at Columbus, Ga., 18 Feb., 1879. He entered the military academy, July, 1833, was 2d lieutenant of dragoons, July, 1837, 1st lieutenant, 1842, captain 1st dragoons, 6 Oct., 1846, major and paymaster, 25 July, 1854, brevet major, 23 Feb., 1847, for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Buena Vista. In this bat- tle Col. Jeffei'son Davis, 1st Mississippi rifles, was seriously wounded and was borne from the field by Capt. Chilton, and their life-long friendship dated from that event. He resigned from the U. S. army, 29 April, 1861, and was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the adjutant-general's de- partment of the Confederate army soon afterward. He was promoted to colonel, 13 Oct., 1862, and brigadier-general, 20 Oct., 1862. The appoint- ment was not confirmed by the Confederate sen- ate, and he was reappointed and confirmed, 21 Dec, 1862. He was for some time chief of staff to Gen. Robert E. Lee, also inspector-general of the Army of northern Virginia. He resigned from the army in April, 1864. and subsequently engaged in business in Columbus.

CHINIQUY, Charles Paschal Telesphore, Canadian clergvman, b. in Kamouraska. province of Quebec, 30 July. 1809; d. in Montreal, 16 Jan., 1899. He was educated at the College of Nicolet, occupied the chair of belles-lettres there for four years, was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church in 1833, and held charges in Que- bec till 1851, when he was sent to Chicago to direct Roman Catholic emigration to the prairies of Illi- nois. Meanwhile his successful crusade against drunkenness had won him the title of the " apostle of temperance of Canada." In 1858. a change in his religious views having occurred, with his entire congregation at St. Anne, which he founded near Kankakee, 111., he left the Roman Catholics and united with the Canadian Presbyterian church. Six years later he married an American lady of his congregation. He lectured in England in 1860, 1874, and 1882, and in Australia in 1878-'80. In addition to many minor popular treatises, he published "The Priest, the Woman, and the Con- fessional " (St. Anne, Kankakee co.. 1874) and "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome" (Chicago, 1885), which have passed through seventy editions and been translated into ten languages. Though in his ninetieth year, Dr. Chiniquy preached in December, 1898, in a French Protestant church of Montreal, where he had lived for ten years. In 1889 McGill university conferred upon the vener- able preacher the degree of D. D.

CHURCH, Frederick Stuart, artist, b. in Grand Rapids, Mich., 12 June, 1842. He studied in the schools of the National academy of design, and afterward established a studio in New York city, which he still continues. He is a delineator of animals and figures, and also a successfid illus- trator of books. Mr. Church has been a member since 1885 of the National academy of design, is a member of the Society of American artists, and also of the American water-color society.

CHURCHILL, Lady Randolph, b. in Brook- lyn, N. Y., 10 June. 1853. She is a daughter of Leonard Jerome, of New York, and was educated Ijrinci pally in Paris. In 1874 she married, in Grace church. New York. Lord Randolph Church- ill, who died in 1893, She is vice-president of the Primrose league of England and prominent in London fashionable society. Lady Churchill es- tablished an expensive, handsomely bound quar- terly entitled " The Anglo-Saxon Review " (June, 1899), published in London at a guinea each. Of the first number 3.000 were sold. — Her son, Win- ston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, grandson of the seventh Duke of JIarlborough, b. 30 Nov., 1874, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst military college. He entered the British army in 1895. serving with Spanish troops in Cuba in the same year, and in 1897 with the Malakand field force. He was with the Nile expeditionary army in 1898, winning the medal with clasp for services in the battle of Khartum. In 1899 he was an unsuccessful candidate for parliament. Lieut. Spencer-Churchill is author of "The Storv of the Malakand Field Force" (London. 1H9S).

'''CHURCHILL. Winston,''' author, b. in St. Louis, 10 Nov., 1871. He was graduated from the U..S. naval academy in 1894, and has since then pursued a literary career, contributing nu- merous articles vchiefly naval) to the American magazines. He is the author of "The Celebrity " (New York, 1898), and " Richard Carvel " (1899), an exceptionally popular historical novel, one hun- dred and fifty thousand copies having been sold insismonths. Withthesingleexceptionof " David Harnm," it is the most successful American novel issued during the year 1899. " Literature " pro- nounces Mr. Churchill's work to be "a production of which not only the author but his countrymen have every reason to be proud."

CLARK, Clarence Don, senator, b. ia Sandy Creek, Oswego Co., N. Y., 16 April. 1851. and was graduated at the University of Iowa. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1874. teach- ing school and practising at the bar in Delaware county, Iowa, until 1881. In that year he re- moved to Evanston, Vy.. where he has since re- sided. Upon the admission of the territory as a state, he was twice elected to congress, but was defeated for a third term by a fusion of Demo- crats and Populists. In January. 1895, Jlr, Clark was elected as a Republican to the U. S. senate for