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Cessna, John, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 29, 1831, in Bedford county. Pa. In 1849 he was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature; and on being re-elected was made speaker. In 1861 he was again elected to the state legislature, and again made speaker. In 1869-71 and 1873-75 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first and forty-third congresses. He died Dec. 13, 1893, in Bedford, Pa.

Chace, Alfred Bruce, lawyer, jurist, was 2, 1868, in Hillsdale, N.Y. In 1887 he graduated from the Williston seminary; in 1888 from Philips academy; and from Yale college in 1892 with the degree of A.B. He is a noted lawyer of Hudson, N.Y.; in 1901 lectured on legal topics at the Florida Chautauqua and since 1901 has been district attorney of Columbia county, N.Y. Chace, George Ide, physiologist, scientist, was bom Feb. 19, 1808, in Lancaster, Mass. For fifteen years he occupied the chair of chemistry, physiology and geology, and for five years the chair of moral philosophy and

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metaphysics in Brown university. The most important of his lectures and reviews were published in 1886 with a life by James 0. Murray. He died April 29, 1885, in Providence, R.I.

Chace, Jonathan, manufacturer, congress-

man. United States senator, was

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a member of the state senate of Rhode Island in 1876-77; and in 1881-85 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses. In 1885-89 he was United States senator. Chadbonme, Paul Ansel, clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 21, 1823, in North Berwick, Maine. He was pres22, 1829, in Fall River,

Mass.

He was

ident of Williams college in 1872-81. He was the author of Relations of Natural History to Intellect, Taste, Wealth, and Religion; Natural Theology; Instinct in Animals and Men; Strength of Men and Stability of Nations; The Hope of the Righteous; and The Public Services of the State of New York. He died Feb. 23, 1883, in New York City. Chadboume, Sumner J., educator, statesman, was born July 28, 1830, in Dixmont, Me. In 1858 he was elected to represent his district in the Maine house of representatives; and for over forty years from that

time was very prominent in Maine public life.

again served in

He was

the as-

sistant messenger of the house; and for eight years was clerk of the house. In 1876 he was elected secretary of state, serving for three years; he 1880; and for seventeen

years served as deputy secretary of state. died Oct. 1, 1902, in Augusta, Maine. Chadwick, French Ensor, naval officer, author, was born Feb. 29, 1844, in Morgantown, West Va. In 1904-06 he was commander in chief of the South Atlantic squadron. He is the author of Temperament, Disease and Health; Unsolved Problems; and Causes of the Civil War. Cliadwick, George Wiitfield, musician, was born Nov. 13, 1854, in Lowell, Mass. He is director of the New England conservatory of Boston, Mass. His overture, Rip Van Winkle, was performed at the Handel and Haydn festival in Boston in 1880; and his symphony in C in 1882 at a concert of the Harvard mus-

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ical association.

Chadwick, Henry, journalist, and the fathwas born Oct. 5, 1824, in England. Since 1837 he has lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. In early life he was a teacher of music; for the past fifty years has been a journalist; and for the past twenty years editor of the Guide, a model baseball manual. He is an authority on games and sports; and er of baseball,

known

as the father of baseball. He is the author of Base Ball Players' Book of Reference; Base Ball, How to Learn, Play and Teach It Base Ball Manual ; and Sports and Pastimes of American Boys. Chadwick, James Read, physician, founder, was born Nov. 2, 1844, in Boston, Mass. He began to practice medicine in Boston; and in 1876 he founded the American gynecological society; and in 1891-94 he founded and was president of the Harvard medical alumni. Chadwick, James Sheriden, clergyman, theologian, editor, was born April 12, 1841, in New York. He graduated from the Garrett

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institute

Evanston,

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and has

received the degrees B.D. and D.D. He has been pastor, editor, assistant corresponding secretary of the freedmen's aid and southern educational society, and presiding elder.

In 1876-96 he was

a member of the general conference of the

methodist

episcopal pastorates in Chicago and Rockford, 111.; in Covington and Louisville, Ky.; in Trenton and Newark, N.J.; church.

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and m Brooklyn and New York City. Chadwick, John White, clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 19, 1840, in Marblehead, Mass. He is a unitarian clergyman of Brooklyn and prominent among the more radical

thinkers of his denomination. He is the author of The Man Jesus; The Faith of Reason; The Bible of To-day; Old and New

Unitarian Belief; The Power of an Endless Life ; The Revelation of God, and Other Sermons ; Thomas Paine the Method and Value