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 HERRING3HAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Church, Benjamin, physician, author, poet, in 1734 in Rhode Island. He was the author of The Times, a political satire; Elegy on Dr. Mayhew; Address to a Provincial Bashaw; and Elegy on the Death of Whitefleld. He died in 1776 in Boston, Mass. Church, Benjamin Silliman, civil engineer, was born April 17, 1836, in Belvidere. He had charge of the water supply of New York from time to time during the past forty years. His greatest achievement has been the projecting and constructing of the new Croton aqueduct, the source of the water supply of New York City. Church, Duane Herbert, merchant, inventor, was born May 12, 1849, in Madison, N.Y. He formed the firm of Prohne and Church, jewelers of St. Paul, Minn. He produced a device for the improvement of stem winding watches known as a pendant-set. Church, Edward Bentley, educator, clergyman, founder, was born on Sept. 7, 1844, In Grenville, Miss. In 1880 he established the Irving institute for the higher education of

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1904 in San Francisco, Cal. Church, Mrs. Ella Rodman, author, was born in 1831 in New York. She is the author of Flights of Fancy; Grandmother's Recollections; The Catanese; Christmas Wreath; Golden Days; Flyers and Crawlers, or Talks About Insects; Talks by the Seashore; Among the trees at Elmridge; Flower Talks at Elmridge; Home Animals; Some Useful Animals; to Furnish a Home; and Money-Making for Ladies. Church, Francis Pharcellus, journalist, founder, was born Feb. 22, 1839, in Rochester, N.Y. He became one of the editors and publishers of the Army and Navy Journal; and later, with his brother, founded and edited the Galaxy magazine. He died in 1906 in New York City. Church, Frederick Edwin, landscape painter, was born May 4, 1826, in Hartford, Conn.

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of Niagara Falls, now in the Corcoran art gallery of Washington, won a prize at the French exhibition in 1867. He died April 7, 1900, in Hudson, N.Y. Church, Frederick Stuart, painter, artist, was born June 12, 1842, in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1885 he became a. member of the National academy of design. He paints in his

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and water color, and draws in black and white; and has furnished many illustrations His principal for books and periodicals. works are The Sea Princess; Back from the Beach; Muskrat's Nest; Foggy Day; A Willoil

ing Captive; Retaliation; Peacocks in the Sorceress and Pegasus Captured. Church, Gaylord, lawyer, jurist. In 1858 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Church, George Earl, soldier, civil engineer, builder, was born Dec. 7, 1835, in New Bedford, Mass. In 1855 he was engineer of the Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts. In 1862-64

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onel of the Rhode Island volunteers. In 1889 he built a railroad in Argentine Republic; and has been employed in other countries. Church, H. L., governor. He was governor of North Dakota. He died Nov. 23, 1897, in

Juneau, Alaska. Church, Irving Porter, educator, author, was born July 23, 1851, in Ansonia, Conn. He is professor of applied mechanics and hydraulics at Cornell university. He is the author of Statics and Dynamics for Engineering Students; Mechanics of Materials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three works which were afterwards published as Mechanics of Engineering; and Notes and Examples in Mechanics. Church, Jared Charles, business president, was born Feb. 17, 1857, in Barrington, 111. In 1895 he organized the Drovers' commission company of which he is president. He owns a dairy farm of five hundred acres in Kane county, 111.; and resides in Chicago, 111'. Church, Jarvis, S., lawyer, jurist, was born April 2, 1830, in Springboro, Crawford county, Pa. He received his education at the Kingsville academy, in Ohio and at Oberlin college. In 1857 he was admitted to the bar

in Waterloo, Iowa he has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Auburn, Neb. ii'or three years he was county judge in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa; and ten years served as county judge of Nebraska county, Neb. His decisions showed him to possess a

mind for judicial fairness and justice. died about 1900 in Auburn, Neb. Church, John Adams, mining engineer, author, was born April 5, 1843, in Rochester,

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N.Y. He became superintendent Tombstone Arizona mill and mining company; was four years in service of Viceroy Li Hung Chang; opened silver mines in Mongolia and introducing American methods and machinery; and now practicing as mining engineer. He is the author of Mining Schools of the United States; Notes on a Metallurgical Journey Report on in Europe The Comstock Lode the Striking of Artesian Water in Arizona. Church, Louis Kossuth, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Dec. 11, 1846, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the son of Judge Rodney C. Church, a noted jurist of Brooklyn, who died in 1871. He became a noted lawyer in New



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was a Cleveland reformer; and with Theodore Roosevelt was active in bringin 1882-85;

ing about municipal reforms. In 1885-86 he of the supreme court in the fifth judicial district of Dakota territory; and in 1887-89 was territorial governor. He died Nov. 25, 1897 in Everett, Wash.

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