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principal salesroom of the City. In 1863 he left Boston in command of the forty-first Massachusetts volunteers ; and at the close of the civil war was brevetted brigadier-general. He died Feb. 14, 1871, in Boston, Mass. Chilcott, Ellery Channing, agriculturist, scientist, was born April 8, 1859, in East Hamburg, N.Y. In 1892 he. was a member of the South Dakota state senate. In 1893-1905 he was agriculturist to the South Dakota experimental station; and since 1905 has been in charge of dry land agricultural investigations. He is a member of the American association for the advancement of science. Chilcott, George Miles, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 2, 1838, in Huntingdon, Pa. He was elected to the territorial legislature. In 1861 he was elected to the legislature of Colorado territory; and in 1863-67 was register of the land

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office. In 1867-69 he was a territorial delegate from Colorado to the fortieth congress; and in 1883 was appointed a United States senator to fill a vacancy. He died March 6,

1891, in St. Louis, Mo. Child, Clarence GrifBn, educator, author, was bom March 23, 1864, in Newport, E.I. In 1890 he was an instructor of English in

Trinity college. In 1895-1903 he was assistant editor of Worcester's Dictionary. He is the author of John Lyle and Euphuism; Palatal Diphthongization of Stem Vowels in Old English Dialects. Child, David Lee, journalist, state legislator, was bom July 8, 1794, in West Boylston, Mass. While a member of the Massachusetts state legislature he denounced the annexation of Texas; and afterward published a pamphlet on the subject entitled Naboth's Vineyard. With his wife he edited the AntiSlavery Standard in New York City in 184344. He was distinguished for the independence of his character; and the boldness with which he denounced social wrongs. He died Sept. 18, 1874, in Wayland, Mass. Child, Francis James, educator, author, was born Feb. 1, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was a professor at Harvard university in 1851-96; and became the foremost authority upon all matters pertaining to ballad literature. He edited the American edition of the British Poets, in one hundred and thirty volumes English and Scottish Popular Ballads The Debate between the Body and the Soul and other specimens of mediaeval literature. He was the author of Observations on the Language of Chaucer; and Observations on the Language of Gower's Confessio Amantis. He died Sept. 11, 1896 in Boston, Mass. Child, Frank Samuel, clergyman, lecturer, author, was bom March 20, 1854, in Exeter, N.Y. He is a lecturer on literary and historical subjects. He is the author of An Old New England Town The Colonial Parson of New England; Colonial Witch; Puritan Wooing; The House with Sixty Closets;



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Lydia Maria, author, was born Medford, Mass. She was an abolitionist; and assisted her husband in editing the National Anti-Slavery Standard. She was the author of Aspirations of the World; The First Settlers of New England; The Mother's Book; The Girl's Book; Philothea, a Greek romance; The Power of KindChild, Mrs.

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The Progress of Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman's Book; and Miria, a Romance of the Republic. She died Oct. 20, 1880, in Wayland, Mass. ness;

Childs, Edward Popell, educator, scientist, college president, was born April 15, 1870, in Jonesville, Mich. In 1894-95 he was an instructor of science in the Denison university of Pueblo, Col. In 1890 he was acting presiMexico. Since dent of the university of

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1907 he has been president of the normal and collegiate institute of Asherville, N.C. Childs, George Theodore, soldier, journalist, legislator, was born on Sept. 7, 1843, in Charlestown, Mass. He served in the civil war; and was a prisoner of war at Libby, New Orleans and Salisbury for one year. He then engaged in newspaper work at St. Albans, Vt.; and has been department commander of the grand army of the republic. He has been a member of the Vermont state legislature; and judge advocate-general of

Vermont. Childs, George

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anthropist, author, was born May 13,' 1839, in Baltimore, Md. In 1843-43 he was an apprentice on board the ship Pennsylvania of the United States navy. In 1850 he became a member of the publishing firm of Peterson and company, which was changed to Childs and Peterson. In 1864 he purchased the Public Ledger of Philadelphia. As a. philanthropist he was very liberal; and gave freemeans to many charitable instituwas the author of Recollections of General Grant; and Personal Recollections.

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died Feb. 3, 1894, in Philadelphia, Pa. Childs, Henry A., lawyer, jurist, was born July 17, 1836, in Carlton, N.Y. In 1893-1906 he was justice of the supreme court of York for the eighth district. He died in 1906 in Medina, N.Y. Childs, Henry Halsey, physician, college president, was born June 7, 1783, in Pittsfield, Mass.' He organized the Berkshire medical college; and was its president until 1863,

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represented Pittsfield in the Massachusetts legislatures of 1816 and 1837; was in

the constitutional convention of 1820; was state senator in 1837; and was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1843. He died March 23, 1868, in Boston, Mass.