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unteers, 1863-'(34. He served on Sherman's raid to Meridian, and commanded a battalion at Look- out Mountain, Tenn., from Jan. 15, to Aug. 25, 1865. On March 13, 1865, he was bre vetted brig- adier-general, U. S. volunteers, for gallant ser- vices in the battle of Champion Hills, Feb. 4, 1864, and at Meridian, Miss., Feb. 14, 1864. He was judge-advocate of the district of Nebraska in the early part of 1866, and of the department of the Platte until July 31, 1867. He was promoted major, March 5, 1867, and lieutenant - colonel October, 1876, serving in the interim on garrison and frontier duty. From July, 1877, to Sept. 13, 1878, he was military attachd of the U. S. lega- tion at Constantinople, Turkey, and in Novem- ber, 1878, was stationed at Fort Townsend. Wash. He died at San Antonio. Tex., Jan. 2, 1888.

CHAMBERS, Ezekiel F., senator, was born in Kent county, Md., Feb. 28, 1788. He was graduated at Washington college in 1805, and in 1808 was admitted to the bar. He served in the war of 1812, attaining the rank of brigadier-gen- eral. In 1822 he was a member of the state sen- ate, and was elected United States senator from Maryland as a Whig, in the place of Edward Lloyd, resigned, taking his seat Feb. 22, 1826, and serving until 1834, when he resigned. In that year he was appointed presiding judge of the second judicial court of Maryland and a judge of the court of appeals, holding the posi- tions until 1851, when, by a change of constitu- tion, the judiciary of Maryland became elective. He was offered the position of secretarj' of the navy by President Fillmore in 1852, but declined on acovmt of feeble health. He was defeated as the Democratic candidate for governor of Mary- land in 1864. He received the degree of LL.D. from Yale college in 1833, and from Delaw^are college in 1852. He died at Chestertown, Md., Jan. 30, 1867.

CHAMBERS, George, jurist, was born in Chambersburg, Pa.. Feb. 24. 1786. The town was founded by his grandfather. He was graduated at Princeton college in 1804, and was admitted to the bar in 1807, beginning practice at Chambers- burg. In 1833 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the 23d Congress as a Whig, and was re-elected to the 24th Congress, serving until March 3, 1837. In the latter year he was a member of the state constitutional con- vention of Pennsj'lvania. He was appointed a justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, April 12, 1851, and occupied that position until it was vacated by constitutional provision. He wrote a history of the Cumberland Valley, the manuscript of which was destroyed when the Confederate troops burned his house during their invasion of Pennsylvania. He died in Chambers- burg, Pa., March 25, 1866.

CHAMBERS, George Stuart, clergyman, was born m Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. Iz, 1841; son of John and Margaret (Bready) Chambers. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1862 and served as a private in the 118th Pennsylvania regiment during the emergency, after which he acted as assistant secretary of the United States Christian commission, 1863-"65. He was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry and was pastor of Ebenezer, later Murray Hill, church, New York city, 1867-'79, and in 1879 became pastor of the Pine street church, Harris- burg, Pa. The University of Pennsylvania gave him the degree of A.M. in 1862, and that of D.D. in 1888. He published several sermons

CHAMBERS, Henry, senator, was born in Lunenburj count}', Va., in 1785; brother of Judge Edward Chambers. He practised medi- cine in Alabama, and served during the Indian wars as surgeon on the staff of General Jackson. In 1819 he was a member of the state constitu- tional convention. He was elected U. S. senator, serving from Dec. 5, 1825, until his deatli, which occurred in Mecklenburg county, N. C, Jan. 25, 1826.

CHAMBERS, John, jurist, was born about 1700; son of Admiral William Chambers. He was licensed an attorney -at-law in New York April 7, 1723. He was married March 26, 1737. to Anne, daughter of Col. Jacobus and Eva (Philipse) Van Cortlandt of Yonkers, N. Y. On Nov. 5, 1739, he was appointed clerk of the com- mon council of New York, and on July 80, 1751, he was commissioned second justice of the supreme court, taking liis seat May 8, 1752. On May 1, 1753, he resigned his office as clerk of the common council. In 1757 he was a member of the Congress at Albany, N. Y., convened for the pur- pose of forming a Confederate union of the Brit- ish American colonies. In 1760 he failed to receive the appointment to the chief -justicesliip of the state, made vacant by the death of Judge DeLancey, to which he felt entitled by reason of rank, and on Nov. 19, 1761, he resigned his seat on the bench. He was a member of the council from 1752 until liis death, April 10, 1764.

CHAMBERS, John, representative, was born in New Jersey, Dec. 4, 1779. He removed to Ken- tucky with his father in 1792, and was admitted to the bar in 1800, practising his profession in Washington, Ky. He served in the war of 1812 as aid-de-camii to General Harrison, and was present at the battle of the Thames. In 1828 he was elected a representative from Kentucky in the 20th Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by Thomas ^letcalfe's resignation, and served until 1829. He was elected to the 24th and 25th con- gre.sses as a Whig, serving from Dec. 7, 1835, to March 3, 1839. He was appointed governor of