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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Chamberlain, Hiram S., manufacturer, banker, railroad president, was born Aug. 6, 1835, in Franklin, Ohio. In 1893 he entered the railway service as president and receiver of the Chattanooga union railway, which position he held until the road was reorganized as the Belt railroad of Chattanooga, of which he is still president. He is also a successful manufacturer ; is president of the Roane iron company of Chattanooga, Tenn.; is vice-president of the First national bank; and Is prominently identified with the business and

Chamberlain, Montague, soldier, merchant, author, was born April 5, 1844, in Canada. He is the author of Canadian Birds ; and The Penobscot Indians.

Chamberlain, Nathan Henry, clergyman, author, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. He is the author of The Autobiography of a New England Farm House; Samuel Sewell and the World He Lived In and The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish.

Chamberlain, Samuel Emery, soldier, was born in Massachusetts. In 1846 he joined the United States army; and in 1861 was first lieutenant in the third regiment Massachusetts militia. In 1865 he was brevetted bri-

public affairs of his city and state. Chamberlain, Jacob, missionary, author, was born April 13, 1835, in Sharon, Conn. He is a clergyman of the reformed Dutch church; and missionary to India. The Bible Tested is his

gadier-general of volunteers. He died in 1908. Chamberlain, Selah, railroad builder, was born May 14, 1812, in Brattleborough, Vt. The construction of the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul system gave him a large amount of work. In 1871 he began building the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley, now the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling railroad, and was its president at his death. He died Dec. 27, 1890, in Cleveland.

most important work.

Chamberlain, Jacob P., congressman, was born in Massachusetts, la 1861-63 he was a representative from New York to the thirtyseventh congress. He died Oct. 5, 1878, at

Seneca Falls, N.Y. Chamberlain, Jeremiah, educator, college president, was born Jan. 5, 1794, near Great Conewago, Pa. In 1825 he accepted, the presidency of Louisiana college at Jackson, La.; and in 1838 established an academy of his own in the same town; also orgajiizing a presbyterian church there. In 1830 he became president of the newly founded Oakland college of Mississippi. He he labored with great success for twenty years. He was stabbed to the heart by a student for some

Chamberlain, William,

jurist, congressman, Vermont. He was a presidential elector in 1801; and in 1808-05 and 1809-11 he was a representative from Vermont to the eighth and eleventh congresses; and was

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a state councilor in 1796-1803. He served years in the state legislature; was lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1813-15; and was chief justice of a state court in 1801-03, five

fancied grievance. He died Sept. 5, 1850, in Claiborne county, Miss. Chamberlain, John C, congressman, was bom in 1772. In 1809-11 he was a representative to the eleventh congress. He died Dec. 8, 1834, in Utica, N.Y.

and in 1814. He died in Vermont. Chamberlain, William Isaac, missionary,

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college president, author, was Oct. 10, 1862, in India. In 1898-1905 he was president of Voorhees college, India. Since 1906 he has been professor of logic and mental philosophy at Rutgers college. He is the author of Education in India. Chamberlasme, Israel, clergyman, author, was born in 1795 in New York. He was the

Chamberlain, John Loomis, soldier, was born Jan. 20, 1858, in New York City. In 1880 he graduated from the United States military academy; and since 1907 has been inspector-general of the department of the East.

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, soldier, educator, college president, governor, author, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine. In 1856-62 he was professor of rhetoric in Bowdoin college; and in 1857 professor of modem languages. In 1861 he enlisted in the civil war; and in 1864 attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1867-71 he was the twentysecond governor of Maine; and in 1871 he became president of Bowdoin college. He is the author of Maine, Her Place in History; Sovereignty and Sacrifice; The Two Souls; American Ideals; The New Nation; and Ethics and Politics of the Spanish Question. Chamberlain, Mellen, lawyer, librarian, jurist, was born June 5, 1821, in Pembroke, N.H. He was a member of both houses of the Massachusetts state legislature; in 1886 he became judge ; and later was chief justice of the municipal court until 1878. In 1878-90 he was librarian-in-chief of the Boston public library. He died in 1900 in Boston, Mass.

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author of Past and the Future; The Australian Captive; Savisg Faith, its Rationale; and The Great Specific Against Despair of Pardon. Chamberlin, Edward Payson, merchant, was bora Sept. 16, 1832, in Parishville, N.Y. In 1866 he moved to Atlanta, Ga., and organized the dry goods firm of Chamberlin, Cole and Boynton. He was a member of the city council in 1876-77; and director of a number of prosperous corporations of Atlanta, Ga. Chamberlin, Franklin, lawyer, author, was born April 14, 1821, in Dalton, Mass. He ia a noted lawyer of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1870 published a work on American Commercial Law.

Chamberlin,

Humphrey Barker,

capitalist,

was born on Feb. 7, 1847, in England. In 1881 he was president of the shoe manufacturing company of Denver, Col.; in 1889 became president of the Beaver Brook water company; and is also president of the Denver, Colorado, Canon and pacific philanthropist,