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 CHAMPNEYS.

CHANCnE.

In 1882 he was elected an associate member of the National academy of design, and was early made a member of the American society of water color painters. After 1876 his studios were situated in New York city, and at Deerlield, Mass. Among the more noted of his early pictures are: Boy Shelling Peas (1869); The Sere Leaf (1874); Where the Two Paths Meet (1880); Song ivithont Words (1886). Among liis portraits in pastel are noted those of Mrs. Egerton, Mrs. Rhinelander Stewart, Grace Kimball as Betty Linleij, IMary Mannering as Daphne, and Mrs. Henry Munn. He was accidentally killed in New York city. May 1, 1903.

CHAMPNEYS, Benjamin, jurist, was born in Bridgeton, Cumberland county, N. J., in January, 1800. He was educated by a private tutor and en- tered the college of New Jersey but did not grad- uate. He was admitted to the bar April 2, 1818. From 1824 to 1830 he served as deputy attorney- general of the mayor's court, Lancaster, Pa.; from 1830 to 1833 as deputy attorney -general of the county; and from 1839 to 1842 as president judge of the second judicial district. In 1825 and in 1828 he sat in the lower house of the state legis- lature, and from 1843 to 1846 in the state senate. He became attorney -general of the state in 1846, and resigned that office in 1848. He was elected to the state house of representatives in 1863, and to the state senate in 1864, '65, and "66. He left the Democratic party at the time of the civil war and joined the Eepublicans. He died at Lancas- ter, Pa., Aug. 9, 1871.

CHANCELLOR, Charles Williams, physician, was born in Spottsylvania covmty, Va., Feb. 19, 1833. He attended the college at Georgetown, D. C., and the University of Virginia. In 1853 he received his M.D. degree at Jefferson medical college, and removed to Alexandria, Va., where he practised medicine until the breaking out of the civil war. In 1861 he was appointed medical director on the staff of General Pickett of the Confederate army, and served in this capacity throughout the war, removing at its close to Memphis, Tenn.. where he practised for three years. In 1868 he accepted the chair of anatomy at Baltimore (Md.) university,, became dean of the faculty in 1869. and professor of surgery in 1870. He severed his connection with the uni- versity in 1873 to return to general practice, and in 1876 he was made secretary of the state board of health. He was elected a fellow of the Royal society of London. Among his writings are: Report upon the Condition of the Prisons, Reform- atories and Charitable Institutions of Maryland (1875); Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts (1883); and monographs on Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Maryland (1884). He was U.S. consul at Havre, France, 1893-97.

CHANCELLOR, Eustathius, physician, was born at Chancellorsville, Va., Aug. 29, 1854; son of Dr. J. Edgar and Josephine (Anderson) Chan- cellor. He entered the University of Virginia in 1871, and in 1874 changed from the classical to the medical department, from which he was graduated in 1876. He attended a course of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, was appointed prosector at the University of Mary land, and in 1877 was graduated from that institution. He became resident physician at the university hospital in 1878. In 1879 he began general practice in co-partnership with his father. In 1885 he was instrumental in found- ing the Beaumont hospital medical college, in which he was a professor from 1885 to 1890. In 1892 he was elected secretary of the national association of military surgeons. He is the author of: Researches upon the Treatment of Delirium Tremens (1881); Gonorrhoeal Articular Rhenmatism (1883); Womaii in her Social Sphere (1885); Marriage Philosojihy (1886); Tlie Correlation of Physical and Vital Forces (1887); and The Pacific Slope and its Scenery (1890).

CHANCHE, John Mary Joseph, R. C. bishop, was born at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 4, 1795. At the age of eleven he entered St. Mary's seminai-y; he received the tonsure from Archbishop Carroll at the age of fifteen, and was ordained June 5, 1819. He was a member of the Suli^itian order, and continued his duties as a professor in St. Mary's, of which he became president in 1834. He declined the position of coadjutor bishop of Boston, as well as of New York which he was offered later. He was master cf ceremonies at the second provincial council of Baltimore, was one of the promoters of several others, and chief pro- moter of the first national council. Dr. Chanche was appointed bishop of the newly erected see of Natchez, and was consecrated March 4, 1841, in the cathedral at Baltimore. He built and dedicated the cathedral, made laborious visi- tations of his diocese, organizing new churches and parishes, and did all that zeal and untiring energy could compass in so large a field of labor. His missions among the colored people were very successful. In 1848 he founded St. Mary's orphan asylum and school under the charge of sisters of charity from Emmittsburg. In 1848 he visited France to make efforts for the coalescence of the sisters of charity in the United States with those of France, in whic^h design he succeeded. He built during his episcopacy eleven churches, and established thirty-two missionary stations. He attended the first national council at Baltimore, and on his way home was stricken with his mortal sickne.ss. He tarried for rest at Freder- ick, Md., and died there Julv 23, 1852.