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CHAMBLISS.

the territory of Iowa in 1841, holding the office until 1846. In 1849 he was a commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the Sioux Indians. He ■died near Paris, Ky., Sept. 21, 1852.

CHAMBERS, Julius, editor, was born in Belle- fontaine, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1850; son of Joseph and Sarabella Chambers. He attended the Ohio Wes- leyan university from 1866 to 1868, was gradu- ated at Cornell university in 1870, and accej^ted Si position as reporter on the New York Tribune.

In 1873 he became connected with the Herald, and served on this paper as re- porter, special cor- respondent, city ed- itor, foreign eflitor during the Turco- Russian war, and as night editor, accom- pli.'^hing feats in jour- nalism which gained him a national repu- . ^ vv tation. During 1878-

.^\ ^ ^'W '79 he attended Col-

In 18bo he was made managing editor of the Herald, and in May, 1887, ■estabUshed in Paris the only successful European •edition of the Herald. In 1889 he accepted the same position with the New York M^orld, on which paper he repeated his former success. He is the author of A Mad World and its Inhab- itants (1877), the experiences of the author who, feigning insanity, was confined in an in- •sane asylum in New York ; On a Margin : The JStory of a Hopeless Patriot (1884), and Lovers Four and Maidens Five (1886) ; Missing, A Tale of the Sargasso Sea (1896) ; The Rascal Club (1897). Mr. Chambers was the discoverer (1872) of Elk lake, south of Lake Itasca, which he claimed to be the source of the Mississippi river.

CHAMBERS, Robert William, author, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 26, 1865 ; son of William and Caroline (Boughton) Chambers ; grandson of William and Caroline (Allen) Cham- bers, and of Joseph and Caroline (Smith) Boughton, and a descendant of Roger Williams. He was edu- cated at Cormon's atelier, at the schools of Colin and Harrison, and at Julian's under Lefebvre Benjamin Constant, 1886-"93, and first exliibited in the Paris salon of 1889. On his return to the United States he illustrated for Life, Tnith and Vogue. He is the author of Li the Quarter (1894) ; The King in Yellow (1895) : The Red Hepublie (1896) ; .4. King and a Feio Dukes (1896) ; The Maker of 3Ioons (1S96) : With ihe Band (verse, 1897) ; The Mystery of Choice

ri897) ; Lorraine (1897) ; The Haunts of Men (1897) : The Cambric Mask (1898) ; Ashes of Empire (1898) : The Conspirators (1899) ; Outsiders (1899) : The Harbour Ma.^ter (1899) ; and The Witch of Ellangoiran a drama (1897).

CHAMBERS, Talbot Wilson, clergyman, was born at Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 25, 1819 ; son of Dr. W. C. and Mary (Ege) Chambers. He attended Dickinson college, was graduated at Rutgers col- lege in 1834, and studied at the theological sem- inaries of New Brunswick and Princeton (1834-"37). In 1837-'39 he was engaged in private teaching in Mississippi. His first pastorate was at the second Reformed Dutcli churcliof Raritanat Somerville, N. J., where he was ordained and installed Jan.

22. 1840, and which he served until Dec. 2, 1849, when he was called to be one of the pastors of the collegiate Reformed Dutcli church in New York city, and was stationed at the Lafayette place church. He was one of the American committee on the revision of the Bible, and for many j-ears the chairman of the American section of the cluirches connected with the Reformed alliance. In 1875 he became lecturer at the New Bi'unswick theological seminary, N. J., and was made a trustee of Rutgers college in 1868, and of Colum- bia college in 1881. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1853, and that of LL.D. from Rutgers in 1888. He wrote : Memorial of Theo. Frelinghuysen, The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible (1876), and Com- panion to the Revised Old Testament. He died in New York city. Feb. 3. 1896.

CHAMBLISS, John Randolph, soldier, was born in Hicksford, Greenville county, Va., Jan.

23, 1833; son of Jolin R., and grandson of Lewis H., Chambliss. In 1853 he was graduated at West Point, and until March 4, 1854, was sta- tioned at the cavalry school, Carlisle, Pa., when he resigned and assumed the occupation of a planter at Hicksford, Va. From 1856 to 1861 he served as a major on the governor's staff, and from 1858 to "61 as colonel of militia. At the opening of the civil war he entered the Confed- erate service, was first colonel of an infantry regiment and later colonel of the 13th Virginia a valry. He was promoted to the rank of brig- adier-general, and was killed while leading a cav- alry charge at Deep Bottom, near Riclmiond, Va., Aug. 16, 1864.

CHAMBLISS, William Parham, soldier, was born in Chamblissburg, Va., March 20, 1827. He was educated for the law. and served in the war with Mexico as 2d lieutenant in the 1st Tennessee volunteers from 1846 until July, 1847, when he was promoted captain of the 3d Tennessee volun- teers. At the close of the war he practised his profession in Pulaski. Tenn., 1850-'55; edited the