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CHAMBERLAIN.

CHAMBERLAIN, Alexander Francis, authro pologist, was born at Keiiniughall, Norfolk, England, Jan. 12, 1865. He was brought by his parents to New York in 1870, whence they removed to Canada in 1873. He was graduated with honors at the University of Toronto in 1886, raceiving the degree of A.M. in 1889. From 1887 to 1890 he was fellow in modern languages in University college, Toronto, and from 1890 to 1 -iOi fellow in anthropology in Clark university, Worcester, Mass. In 1893 he received from Clark university the degree of Ph.D., the fir.st granted in anthropology in America. In 1892 he was appointed lecturer on anthroijology in Clark university, and he spent the summer of 1891 among the Kootenay Indians of Briti.sh Colum- l)ia, conducting anthropological investigations under the auspices of the British association for the advancement of science. He was elected a member of several anthropological and philo- logical societies, and fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He devoted especial attention to American aborigi- nal anthropology and linguistics, and contributed to the American Folklore Journal, The Anthro- pologist, Dialect Notes, Modern Language Notes, and the Proceedings of the Canadian Institute. He compiled a dictionary and grammar of the Kootenay Indian language and a comparative Glossary of Algonkian dialects. Among his published papers are: Eskimo Race and Lan- guage; Modern Languages and Classics in Europe and America since 1S80 (1891): Report to the British Association on the Kootenay Indians of S. E. British Columbia (1892); and the Language of the Mississagas of Skiigog (1892).

CHAMBERLAIN, Daniel Henry, governor of South Carolina, was born in West Brookfield. Mass., June 23, 1835; son of Eli and Achsah (Forbes) Chamberlain. Lentil he was fourteen years old he worked on his father's farm and at- tended the common schools. In 1849 and 1850 he studied at the Amherst (Mass.) academy, and in 1854 studied at Phillips Andover academy. In 1857 he completed his preparation for college at the "Worcester, Mass., high school, where he taught in l857-'58, and in 1859 entered Yale col- lege. He was graduated in 1862 and entered Harvard law^ school, where he remained until the fall of 1863, when he left to enlist in the army. He received a lieutenant's commission in the 5th Massachusetts colored cavalry, and served vmtil the close of the war. In January, 1866, he engaged in cotton planting on the Sea Islands, near Charleston, S. C, but was unsuccessful. In 1867 he was chosen a member of the constitu- tional convention called under the reconstruction acts, and took his seat in Januarv, 1868. He was

made attorney-general in 1868, and held the ofl&ce four years, at tae end of that time returning to his law practice in Charleston. He achieved distinction at the bar, and in 1874 was elected governor of the state. At the close of his term he returned to New York city. See Governor Cham- berlain's Administration in South Carolina, hy Walter Allen (188>i).

CHAMBERLAIN, Eugene Tyler, journaUst, was born at Albany, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1856; son of Frank Chamberlain. He was graduated from the Albany academy in 1874 and from Harvard in 1876, with honors in philosophy. While in college he was associate editor of the Harvard Advocate. He taught in the Albany academy, and in 1879 entered business with his father in charge of the Dunlap elevator. In 1882 he began his daily newspaper work as a member of the staff of the Albany Evening Journal. He rose to the position of associate editor under George Dawson, and remained as such under Harold Frederick and John A. Sleicher. In 1888 he transferred his services to the Albany Argus, taking the position of assistant editor. During his newspaper career he served as the Albany correspondent for a nimiber of inflviential news- papers in all parts of the United States. He wrote the life of Grover Cleveland as a campaign voliinie, aided in organizing the civil service reform association in 1884, and was mentioned for the position of civil service commissioner. In 1892 he assumed the editorship of the Albany Argus.

CHAMBERLAIN, Jacob, clergyman, was born at Sharon, Conn., April 13, 1835. He was gradu- ated at the theological seminary of the Reformed Dutch church. New Brunswick, N. J., and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city. Immediately upon graduation he went to India as missionarj', where he had unusual suc- cess in the fields of Palamainer and Madanapalli, at each of which stations he established a hospital and dispensary. He was chairman of the com- mittee to bring out a new translation of the Old Testament in the Telugu language, and as well of that which had in hand the revising of the Telugu New Testament. He was elected in 1878 to the vice-presidency for India of the American Tract society. Among his published works are • Tlie Bible Tested (1878), which reached a sale of twenty-one thousand; Winding up a Horse, or Christian Giving (1879), and Break Cocoa- nuts over the Wheels (1885), the last reaching a sale of twenty thousand.

CHAMBERLAIN, Jeremiah, educator, was born in Adams county, Pa., Jan. 5, 1794; son of Col. James Chamberlain, an officer in the revo- lutionary army. He was graduated at Dickinson college in 1814, and after a three-years course at