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speech in which he assailed that officer's compe- tency. He was re-elected tu the senate in 1863, and made, in 1864, a vigorous campaign for the Republican ticket. He was re-elected to the senate in 1869, and in 1874 he made a speech against the inflation of the currenc}', and was un- compromising in demanding a prompt return to specie payments. On Oct. 19, 1875, President Grant appointed him secretary of the interior, to succeed Columbus Delano, resigned, which office he held until the closj of Grant's administration, March 4, 1877. Upon Isaac P. Clrristiancy's res- ignation as United States senator from Michigan in February, 1879, Mr. Chandler ^was elected to fill the vacancy. His most noted speech was made on March 8, 1879, at 3.30 in the morning, when a bill granting arrears of pensions to vet- eran soldiers in the Mexican war was under con- sideration, which would include in its provisions the possibility of a pension to Jefferson Davis. Mr. Chandler was very severe in his denuncia- tion of Mr. Davis, and his speech aroused ex- citement in the senate, and brought his name prominently before the public as a presidential candidate. In the campaign of 1876 he was made chairman of the Republican congressional com- mittee. On Oct. 31, 1879, he addressed the Young men's Republican club at Chicago, 111., and was found dead in his room the next morning, the result of a cerebral hemorrhage. The date of his death is Nov. 1, 1879.

• CHANEY, Lucian West, biologist, was born in Heuvelton, N. Y., June 26, 1857; son of Lucian West and Happy (Kinney) Chaney. In 1878 he was graduated at Carleton college, and after teaching for two years became superintendent of schools in Glencoe, Minn. In 1883 he was called to the chair of biology in Carleton college, Northfleld, Minn. He is the author of many scientific contributions to periodicals, and of Guides for the Laboratory (1886). In 1894-'95 lie made explorations in the Rocky mountains nortli of Lake Macdonald, ^Montana. During this time lie located a glacier not before visited, which was afterwards known by his name.

CHANLER, Amelie Rives. (See Rives, Amelie).

CHANNINQ, Edward, autlior. was born in Dorcliester, Ma.s.s., June 15, 1856; son of William Ellery and Ellen (Fuller) Channing. He was graduated from Harvard college in 1878. In 1883 he was appointed instructor, and in 1887 assist- ant professor of liistory in Harvard college. In 1880 he received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. from liis alma mater. He is the autlior of: Toivn and Counfry Government in the English Colonies of North America (1884): The Xarra- gansett Planters. A Stndi/ of Causes (18S6): The Navigation Lau-s (1890); The United States

of America. 1765-1805 (1896); the papers on Tlie Companions of Columbus and The War in the Southern Department in Justin Winsor's Narrative a>id Critic(d History of America (1886- '88); English History for American Readers (with Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 1893), and Guide to the Study of American History (with Albert B. Hart. 1896).

CHANNINQ, Edward Tyrrel, educator, was born in Xewjiort, R. I., Dec. 12, 1790; son of WilHam and Lucy (Ellery) Channing. He en- tered Harvard in 1804. but was not graduated, as he was involved in the famous rebellion of 1807. He received his degree in 1819, and after study- ing la^v with his brother was admitted to the bar. In the winter of 1814-'15 he was one of a club of young men who planned to issue a bi-monthly magazine to be called the New England Maga- zine and Bevieio. But on the return of William Tudor from Europe, with a plan for publishing a similar periodical to be issued quarterly, an arrangement was made to unite the two, and in May, 1815, the first issue of the North American Revieiv apj^eared. Mr. Tudor edited it for two years, and in 1817 it passed into the hands of a club of young men, among whom were Jared Sparks, John GaUison, William P. Mason, Nathan Hale, Richard H. Dana and Edward T. Chan- ning. Mr. Si^arks edited it for one year, and was succeeded by Mr. Channing, assisted by his coiisin, Richard H. Dana. In 1819 he resigned this position to accept the Boylston chair of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. Edward Everett succeeded him as editor of the North American Review. He resigned his chair at Harvard college in 1851, in full vigor of mind and body, having formed an early resolution to retire from active Life at the age of sixty. He was married in 1826 to his cousin, Henrietta A. S. Ellery. Among his published writings are: Life of ^\^illiam Ellery (1!^36), and Lectures Read to the Seniors in Harvard College (1856). He- died in Cambridge, ^la.ss., Feb. 8. 1856.

CHANNINQ, Walter, physician, was born in Newport, R. I., April 15, 1786; son of William and Lucy (Ellery) Channing. He was a junior at Harvard at the time of the "rebellion" in 1807, but although he was not graduated with his class he was awarded the degree of B. A. with the others in 1808. In 1809 he received the de- gree of M.D. from the University of Pennsyl- vania, and in 1812, after studying in Edinburgh and London, he began to practise medicine in Bos- ton, at the same time delivering lectures on ob- stetrics, at Harvard, in which institution, tliree years later, he became professor of obstetrics and medical juri.sprudence, holding the chair until 1845. At the inception of the Mas.sachu.setts general hospital in 1821 he was made assistant