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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. John Lewis, horticulturist, jourwas born May 13, 1856 North Jay, Maine. He established The jfflower, which is made up of the promit floriculturists, horticulturists and agrijurists in the world. He was state senator hilds, st,

state senator,

L894-95. , Ihilds, Orville

Whitmore, engineer, railmanager, manufacturer, was born Deo. 1803, in Stillwater, N.Y. He was chief ineer of the Terre Haute and Alton ralld in 1855-58; and was afterward employby the state to fix the boundaries of the r and county of New York. He was presiJ

the Central transportation company president of the Philadelphia ear-works, died Sept. 6, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa.

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Robert A., soldier, lawyer, cong3man, was born March 22, 1845, in^Mae, N.y. He served through the civil war General Stephen A. Hurlbut's company, ich subsequently became a part of the eenth regiment Illinois infantry volunrs. In 1884 he was presidential elector. 1893-95 he was a representative from Illis to the fifty-third congress as a republiIhilds,

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Thomas, congressman, was born in w York. In 1855-57 he was a representaB from New York to the thirty-fourth ^hilds,

igress.

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^hilds,

Thomas,

New

York. was born in 1796, Pittsfield, Mass. In the Mexican war he ned the brevet of colonel in 1846 ; and was vetted brigadier-general in 1847. He was itary governor of Jalapa in 1847. He died 8, 1853, in Fort Brooke, Fla. yhilds, Thomas Spencer, clergyman, auir, was born in 1825 in Springfield, Mass. has filled pastorates in Hartford and rwalk. Conn.; and professorships in Woosuniversity and in Hartford theological ninary. He is the author of Heritage of ice; Christ His Own Witness; The Lost ith; and Diflaculties of Scripture Tested Laws of Evidence. died in

soldier,



Timothy, physician, state senator,

Jhilds,

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in February, 1748, in Deerfield, surgeon of Colonel Patterson's iment, with which he went to New York; 1 in the expedition to Montreal. In 1777 left the army and resumed practice at tsfield, where he continued till his death. 1792 and for several years after he was epresentative and also a state senator; 1 was a member of the executive council. s

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He was

died Feb. 25, 1821.

Timothy, legislator, congressman, born in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a memof the assembly of New York in 1838In 1829-31, 1835-39 and 1841-43 he was representative from New York to the Jhilds, 9

twenty-fourth, the twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh congresses. He died in member, 1847, in Santa Cruz. snty-first, [

Whiles,

Mrs.

Mary

Eliza, author, poet, was Among her writ-

n in 1820 in Kentucky.

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ings are Louisa Elton, a reply to Uncle Tom; Bandits of Italy; Oswyn Dudley; and Select

Poems. Chiles, Seaborn Green, soldier, was born in Florida. He is a graduate of the United

States military academy; became first lieutenant is 1899, and attained the rank of captain in 1902. Chillson, William Deal, pioneer lawyer, lecturer, jurist, was born on Nov. 19, 1835, in Ticonderoga, N.Y. In early life he was steam engineer and steam sawmill builder; and in 1850 sawed the first board cut by steam power in Minnesota at St. Paul. He has traveled and lectured on science and the bible; and is the author of a religious work. He twice filled the office of county judge. Chilson, Gardner, manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1804 in Thompson, Conn. He engaged in the manufacture of stoves and furnaces at Mansfield, Mass. As early as 1844 he devised a furnace that received a prize medal at the London world's fair in 1851. Among his numerous inventions are conical radiators, applied to stoves and furnaces. He died Nov. 21, 1877, in Mansfield, Mass. Chilton, Horace, lawyer, United States senator, was born Dec. 29, 1853, in Tyler, Texas. He was a delegate at large from Texas to the national democratic convention at St. Louis in 1888; and served one term as assistant attorney-general of Texaa by appointment. In 1895-1901 he was United States senator.

Chilton, Robert Hall, soldier, was born in 1817 in Loudon county, Va. He entered the military academy in 1833 was second lieutenant of dragoons in 1837; became first lieutenant 1842; and captain first dragoons in 1847. He was brevetted a major for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Buena Vista. In 1861 he was appointed lieu;

tenant-colonel in the adjutant-general's department of the confederate army; and brigadier-general in 1863. He died Feb. 18, 1879, in Columbus, Ga. Chilton, Samuel, lawyer, congressman, was born on Sept. 7, 1804, in Warrenton, Va. In 1843-45 he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-eighth congress and after retiring from congress was a member of the state constitutional convention. He died Jan. 14, 1867, in Fauquier county, Va. Chilton, Thomas, lawyer, clergyman, congressman, was born July 30, 1798, in Garrard county, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky state legislature for several sessions. In 1827-31 and 1833-35 he was a representative from Kentucky to the twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-third congresses. While practicing law with success he became a baptist preacher; moved to Alabama; and was elected president of the Alabama baptist state convention. He died Aug. 15, 1854, in Montgomery, Texas. Chilton, William P., jurist, lawyer, statesman, was born in Kentucky. He was at different times a member of each house of the