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 CHAMBERLAIN.

CHAMBERS.

Concord, N. H. (1886) : Address at the Dedication of the Brooks Library Building at Brattleboro, Vt. (1887) ; The Constitutional Relations of the Amer- ican Colonies to the English Government at the Commencement of the American Revolution (1887); The Revolution Impending, with a Critical Essay ^1888); JosiahQnincy. the Great Mayor (188^): A Review of Palfrey's History of Neic England (1890); Review of the Belknap PajJers (18Q\) ; Tlie Memo- rial of Captain Charles Cochrane (1891); Governor Wintlu^op's Estate (1892). He died at Chelsea, Mass.. June 25. 1900.

CHAMBERLAIN, Selah, engineer, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., March 4, 1812. He was a con- tractor for the constructing of the Erie extension of the Pennsj'lvania canal and of other large canals in the state of Pennsylvania. In 184.5 he superintended the improvements made in the Canadian canals along the St. Lawrence river. Returning to his native state he was contractor for the Rutland and Burlington railroad. In 1851 he completed the construction of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad. In 1871 he was made president of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railroad, of which he was the builder. He died in Cleveland. Ohio, Dec. 27, 1890.

CHAMBERLIN, Humphrey Barker, philan- thropist, was born in 31anchester. England, Feb. 7, 1847 ; son of Robert and Eliza (Barker) Chamberlin. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1853 ; was educated in the State normal school, Oswego, N. Y. ; entered the telegraph service in 1862, and served in the military telegraph corps, 1863-'65. He engaged in the drug business in Oswego, 1866-'76 ; was general secretarj^ of the Y.M.C.A. of Brooklj'n, N.Y., 1876-79, and engaged in the real estate business in Denver, Col., in 1879, becoming presi- dent of the Denver chamber of commerce in 1889. He gave the Chamberlin observatory costing $60,000 to the University of Denver, and contrib- uted §40.000 to the Trinity M. E. church in Den- ver. He died at Staines. England, May 17, 1897.

CHAMBERLIN, Joseph Edgar, journalist, was born at Newburg, Vt., Aug. 6, 1851 ; son of Abner and Mary (Haseltine) Chambeidin, who removed to Wisconsin. He was educated in the public schools ; engaged in newspaper work, becoming manager of tlie Chicago Times, and in 1881 re- turned to New England, filled editorial positions in Newport and Fall River, and became editor of the Boston Evening Record and Daily Advertiser. He founded the Listener column in the Boston Tran- script ; became an editor of the Youth's Com- panion in 1890, and was Cuban correspondent of the New York Evening Post in 1898. He is the author of The Listener in the Town (1899) ; The Listener inthe Country (\H9(t): Life of John Broivn in Biographies of Eminent Americans (1S99).

CHAMBERLIN, Thomas Chrowder, educator^ was born near Mattoon, 111., Sept. 25, 1848. He was graduated at Beloit college in 1866 ; studiea the sciences in the University of Michigan, 1868-"69, and was professor of natural science in the State normal school, Whitewater, Wis., 1869-'73 ; professor of geology in Beloit college, 1873-'82 : assistant on the Wisconsin geological survey, 1873-76, and chief geologist of Wisconsin, 1876. He became chief of the glacial division of the U.S. geological survey in 1882 ; was professor of geology at Columbian university, 1884-'86 ; president of the University of Wisconsin, ]887-'92; professor of geology and director of the Walker museum at the University of Chicago from 1892, and geologist of the Peary relief expedition in 1894. He was president of the Wisconsin acad- emy of science and arts, and vice-president of the American a.ssociation for the advancement of science. He received the degree Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1882 ; from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin in 1883, and LL.D. from Beloit, Columbian, and the University of Michi- gan in 1887. He wrote Geology of Wisconsin.

CHAMBERLIN, McKendree Hypes, educa- tor, was born in Lebanon, 111., Nov. 17, 1838 : son of the Rev. David and Susan (Rankin) Chamber- lin. He was graduated from McKendree college, A.B., in 1859, and from Harvard LL.B. in 1861. He practised law in Kansas City, Mo., and at Beardstown, 111., 1864-'67, subsequently engaging in promoting the construction of railroads in Illinois, Iowa and Kentucky ; was secretary of the Illinois state railway commission, 1877-'81. He was elected president of McKendree college and professor of mental and moral science in 1894. He was a delegate to the quadrennial ses- sion of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in 1896. and in 1900. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from U. S. Grant uni- versity in 1896.

CHAMBERS, Alexander, soldier, was born in New York in 1832. He was graduated at West Point in 1853, and served in garrison and on fi'on- tier duty until 1855, when he escorted Captain Pope's artesian well expedition in New Mexico, and in 1856-'57 was engaged in the war against the Seminole Indians in Florida. He was on frontier duty. 1857-'60, being promoted 1st lieutenant Jan. 19, 1859. On May 14, 1861, he was promoted captain and transferred from the 5tli to the 18th infantry regiment. On March 12, 1862, he engaged in the Tennessee campaign, and was twice wounded in the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and once at the battle of luka, Sept. 19, 1862. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. He then served in the Vicks- burg campaign, and on July 4, 1863. received the brevet rank of colonel for gallantry at the siege of Vicksburg. and was brigadier-general of vol-