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university for the past fifteen years. He was president of the St. Louis museum and school of fine arts, to whose endowment he contributed largely. Chapman, Maria Weston, reformer, was

Conn. He was prominent in the arrangements that led to the establishment of a summer

principal

school of science in Peoria, 111.; and was president of the scientific association under whose direction the school was formed. He is the author of Geology of Peoria County; Chemistry of the Rocks; and Systems of

ladies'

Stratified Roclis.

born in 1806 in Weymouth, Mass. She was of the newly established young high school of Boston in 1829-30. She was the author of the autobiography of her intimate friend, Harriet Martineau. She died in 1885 in Weymouth, Mass. Chapman, Millie Jane, educator, physician, was born July 33, 1845, in Crawford county. Pa. For twelve years she was engaged in educational work. Since becoming a physician she has held many official positions in local, state and national medical societies. She is one of the physicians in the Homoeopathic hospital; an attending physician for two children's homes; and lecturer on physics at a co-educational college of Pitts-

burg, Pa.

Chapman, Nathaniel, educator, physician, author, was born May 28, 1780, in Summer Hill, Va. He was a. Philadelphia physician; and professor of medicine in the university of Pennsylvania in 1814-50. He was the author of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, long a valued textbook; Select Speeches; Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Haemorrhages and Dropsies; and Lectures on Thoracic Viscera. He died July 1, 1853, in Philadelphia. Chapman, Pleasant Thomas, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1854, in Johnson county, Va. In 1877 he was elected superintendent of the Johnson county schools, and re-appointed for a short time in 1881. Tn 1882 he was elected county judge; and in 1890-94 was a member of the Illinois state senate. In 1905-11 he was a representative from Illinois to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses. Chapman, Reuben, congressman, governor, was bom July 15, 1799, in Eandolph county, Va. In 1835-47 he was a representative from Alabama to the twenty-fourth and twentyninth congresses; and was the eleventh governor of that state in 1847-49. He died May 17, 1883, in Huntsville, Ala. Chapman, Reuben Atwater, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 20, 1801, in Russell, Mass. He practiced successively in Westfleld, Monson. Ware and Springfield. In 1860-68 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts; and in 1868-73 was chief justice. He died June 28, 1873, in Switzerland.

Chapman, Robert Hett, educator, clergyman, college president, was bom March 3, 1771, in Orange, N.J. In 1813 he became president of the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he remained until 1816; after which he officiated variously in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. He died June 18, 1833, in Winchester, Va. Chapman, Warren Hosea, physician, author, was born May 5, 1821, in Tolland,

Chapman, William,

soldier,

was born Jan.

1810, in St. John's, Md. He served on frontier duty at Fort Mackinac in 1831-32; on the Black Hawk expedition in 1832; was instructor at West Point in 1832-33; and was with his regiment at various posts on the frontier until 1845. During the civil war he had command of a. regiment in the defenses 23,

Washington in 1862; and was with the of the Potomac during the peninsular campaign. He was retired from active service in 1863 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and assigned to the command of the of

army

draft rendezvous at Madison, Wis.

Chapman, William W., congressman. In 1837-41 he was a territorial delegate from Iowa to the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth congresses.

Chappell, Absalom Harris, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Deo. 18, 1801, in Hancock county, Ga. He was a, representative of the Georgia state legislature for three terms; a member of the state senate; and president of that body. In 1843-45 he was a representative from Georgia to the twenty-eighth congress. He died Dec. 11, 1878, in Georgia.

Chappell, Chester Will, manufacturer, banker, was bom April 5, 1845, in Madison county, N.Y. He is vice-president of the Chappell-Chase-Maxwell company, one of the largest manufacturers of caskets in the United States; and president of the Oneida savings bank. > Chappell, John Joel, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1782, in Fairfield, S.C. He

yas a solicitor of equity, colonel of militia, a trustee of the state college in 1809 and a bank director. In 1813-17 he was a representative from South Carolina to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses. He died

May

33, 1871, in

Lowndes county, Ala.

Chappie, Joseph Mitchell, journalist, publisher, author, was born July 18, 1867, in La Porte City, Iowa. In 1897 he took charge of the Bostonian, afterwards changed to the Nation magazine. He is the author of The Minor Chord; and Boss Burt, Politician. Charles, Mrs. Emily Xhornton, journalist, author, poet, was born in 1845 in Indiana. She is the author of two volumes of verse entitled

Hawthorn Blossoms; and Lyrical

Poems. Charles, Frances, litterateur, author, was April 10, 1872, in San Francisco, Cal. For four years she was employed in the

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