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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Chambers, Henry Edward, educator, authwas born March 28, 1860, in New Orleans, La. Since 1902 he has been professor of English and elocution in or,

New Orleans boys' high school. In 1903 he was president of Louisiana state the Chautauqua. He is the author of Twenty Lessons in Bookkeeping; the

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Primary Speller;

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School History of the

United States; and A Higher History of the United States; Search Questions in American History; Constitutional History of Hawaii; and other works. Chambers, James, clergyman, reformer, author, was born March 1, 1851, in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Princeton university with the degrees of B.A. and A.M.; and subsequently received the degree of D.D. from Princeton theological seminary. In 1875-83 he was pastor at Sherburne, N.Y.; in 1882-1900 was pastor at the Calvary presbyterian church of New York City; and in 1894 delivered the sermon that started the campaign against Tammany. For twelve years he was editor of Church Work; and is a writer of religious, critical and reform articles. Since 1900 he has been connected with the National bank of Norwich, N.Y. Chambers, John, lawyer, jurist, was born about 1710. He was a member of the executive council in 1754; and attended as one of the commissioners the congress at Albany in that year. He was soon afterward appointed judge and still later became chief justice of New York. He died April 10, 1765, in New

York

City.

Chambers, John, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 4, 1779, in New Jersey. He was a noted lawyer of Kentucky. He was governor of the territory of Iowa in 1841-46, manifesting great ability and prudence in his intercourse with the Indians; and was ap-

pointed

by President

Taylor a commissioner to make a treaty with the Sioux Indians. In 1837-29 and in 1835-39 he was a representa-

from Kentucky to the twentieth, twenty-fourth and twentytive

fifty congresses.

He

died Sept. 21, 1853, near

Ky. Chambers, John Wesley, clergyman, college president, was born May 17, 1857, at Toms River, N.J. He is a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church south; was financial agent of Millsaps college of Jackson, Miss.; Paris,

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now

president of Whitworth female Brookhaven, Miss. Chambers, Julius, journalist, author, was born Nov. 81, 1850, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He was fifteen years with the New York Herald; and for three years was its managing editor. He is the author of A Mad World; On a Margin; Lovers Four and Maid-

and

is

college of

ens Five; The and Missing.

Human Comedy

of Balzac;

Chambers, Robert William, artist, author, 26, 1865, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a novelist and artist of New York City. He is the author of In the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red Republic; The

was born May

Maker of Moons; The Mystery of Choice; A King and a Few Dukes; and With the Band, a book of ballads. Chambers, Talbot Wilson, •clergyman, author, was born Feb. 35, 1819, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a noted clergyman of the reformed Dutch church of New York City. He was the author of The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen ; The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible; and Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament. He died Feb. 3, 1896, in New York City.

Chambliss, Charles Edward, educator, zowas born Aug. 20, 1871, in Petersburg, Va. Since 1907 he has been state entomologist of South Carolina. He is a fellow of the American association for the adologist, scientist,

vancement of

science.

Chambliss, John Randolph, soldier, was born Jan. 23, 1833, in Hicksford, Va. He joined the confederate army; he was subsequently made a brigadier-general; and was killed in action while leading a brigade of cavalry. He died Aug. 16, 1864, in Deep Bottom, Va. Chambliss, William Farham, soldier, author, was bom March 20, 1827, in Chambliss burg, Tenn. In 1850-55 he practiced law in Pulaski, Tenn.; and in 1853-55 edited the Citizen. He was a member of the Tennessee state legislature in 1853-54. He entered the regular army as first lieutenant in the second cavalry in 1855; and was engaged in Texas against hostile Indians most of the time until 1861. He was made major in the fourth cavalry in 1864; and was with his regiment in Texas until 1867, when he resigned and became president and general manager of the Cobourg railway and mining company of Canada. He is the author of a pamphlet on General McClellan and the Presidency.

Chamot, Emile Monnin, educator, author,

was born

in 1868. Since 1900 he has been assistant professor of sanitary chemistry and toxicology in Cornell university of Ithaca, N.Y. He is the author of several chemical

Monographs. Champe, John, revolutionary soldier, was born in 1752 in Virginia. He entered the army in 1776; and served through the revolu-