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Princeton theological seminary he was licensed to preach in 1817. He spent a 3'ear in the south as a missionaiy, and in 1818 accepted a call to the church at Bedford, Pa. In 1823 he became president of Centre college, Kentucky, and held the office until 1825, placing the school on a firm basis. During his administration he preached regularly. He resigned the presidency of Centre college in 1825 to accept that of Louisiana col- lege, remaining there until 1828, when he estab- hshed a private school in Jackson, La. In 1830 he founded and was elected president of Oakland college, Claiborne county. Miss. , to which work he devoted the rest of his life. He received the degree of D.D. from Centre college in 1825. He died by the hand of an assassin, a student of the college, Sept. 5, 18.-)0.

CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua Lawrence, gov- ernor of Maine, was born in Brewer, Me., Sept. 8, 1828; son of Joshua Chamberlain, second in com- mand in the Aroostook war; grandson of Joshua <Dhamberlain, a colonel of the war of 1812. He attended the military academy at Ellsworth, Me., was graduated at Bowdoin in 1853 and at Bangor theological seminary in 1855. He was professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin from 1856 until 1862. In August of the latter year he entered the Union army as lieutenant-colonel of the 20th Maine volunteers, and served continuously in the 1st division oi the 5th corps, gaining succes- sive promotion and finally commanding the corps. He was mu.stered out of service Jan. 10, 1866, as brevet major-general. After having engaged in twenty-four pitched battles, being six times woimded, thrice severely, he received promotion as brigadier-general on the field, and was hon- ored with the direction of the formal surrender of the Confederate forces at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. After the clo.se of the war he resumed his professorship at Bowdoin college, but was elected governor of Maine in 1866, and by three successive re-elections held the office till 1871. On retiring from the governorship, he was elected president of Bowdoin college, and served as such till 1883, in the mean time occupying the chair of mental and moral philosophy, 1874- "79. In 1876 he was appointed major-general of Maine militia; in 1878 was a United States commissioner to the Paris exhibition; and till 1885 lectured on public law and political economy in Bowdoin college. He removed to New York city in 1886, when he became interested in railroad affairs and was elected president of the Institute of arts of that city. He received from Pennsylvania college the degree of LL.D. in 1866. and from Bowdoin college the same degree in 1869. He is the author of Maine: Her place in History (1877), and Educa- tion in Europe (1879). He was U.S. commis- sioner of education at Paris in 1900.

CHAMBERLAIN, Mellen, librarian, was born at Pembroke, X. H., June 4, 1821; son of Mellen Chamberlain, a lawyer, who died in 1839. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1844, and at the Dane law school, Cambridge, in 1848, and began to practise law in Boston Jan. 1, 1849. He was a member of both houses of the Massa- chusetts legislature, and when in the sen- ate he was chairman of the judifiary conmiit- tee. In 1866 he was ap- pointed justice, and afterwards chief jus- tice of the municipal court of the city of Boston, and resigned that office in 1878, on his election as libra- rian-in-chief o f t h e. Boston public library. J^i^Mut^v^i^/eu^' After a popular admin- C^ istration of twelve

years, he retired on account of ill-health, Oct. 1, 1890. He conducted a literary club in Chelsea for thirty years, which had no inconsiderable influence on the community, and led to the for- mation of similar clubs in other parts of the country. He prepared several addresses, re- views, and historical papers, which attracted much attention, by the learning, originality, and critical insight they evinced, and gave the author a high place among monographic writers of his- tory. Judge Chamberlain was elected in 1873 a member of the Massachusetts historical society, and its published proceedings evidence the value of his liistorical papers. He prepared a history of the municipality of Chelsea, which presents novel and interesting pliases of judi- cial proceedings in the Massachusetts colony. He received the degree of LL.B. from Har- vard in 1848, LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1885, and in 1892 he was elected fellow of the Amer- ican academy of arts and sciences. Among his printed works are the following: The His- tory of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullin Point (1880); Daniel 1\'ebster as an Orator (1882); Jolin Adams the Statesman of the Revolution (1884); Samuel Maverick's Pal- isade House of IGoO (1885); The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence (1885); The Journals of Captain Henry Dearborn, 1775- 17S3 (1880-87); Notes to Sen-all's Letter Book (1886); Address at the Dedication of Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College Library (1885), A Revieio of McMaster's History (1886); Landscape in Life and in Poetry (1886); Remarks at the Dedication of a Statue of Daniel Webster, at