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a meeting place in Willard's Hall. Mr. Channing was commissioned chaplain of the Stanton hcs- pital, for regular and constant .services, and con- tinued in that position to the close of the war. In 1863 he was elected chaplain of the house of rep- resentatives, and held this office for two years. In August, 1865, he again sailed for England, where he remained, with only occasional visits to America, during the rest of his life. In 1866 his sou. Francis Allston Channing, took the " Ar- nol 1 "" pi'ize at Oxford university and afterwards be^^ame a member of parliament. His elder davighter was married to Sir Edwin Arnold. Among liis published writings are: The Gospel of To-day (184T): The Life of Ullliain EUery Channing (3 vols. 1848: Centenary memorial edition. 1882): Memoirs of Margaret Fuller OxsoJi. with R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke (•-3 vols., 1852), and Lessons from the Life of Theodore Parker (1860). See Memoir of Wil- liam Henry Channing (1886). by Octavius Brooks Frothiiigham. He died in London. England, Dec. 23. 1884.

CHANUTE, Octave, civil engineer, was born in Paris, France, Feb. 18, 1832, -son of Joseph and Eliza (De Bonnaire) Chanute. He was educated in New York city, and began civil engineering in 1849 on the Hudson river railroad. He served on various western railroads, l853-'63, and from 1863 to 1867 was chief engineer of the Chicago and Alton railroad. In 1867-'68 he planned and su{)erintended the construction of the first bridge buiit across the Missouri river, at Kansas City, and subsequently constructed several railroads in Kansas. He was chief engineer of the Erie rail- way from 1873 to 1883, and for a time superin- tendent of motive power. In 1883 he opened an office as consulting engineer, and supervised the construction of the iron bridges on the Chicago. Burlington and Northern railroad, and on the extension of the Santa F^ road. He also engaged in wood preserving. In 1880-'81 he was vice- president of the American society of civil engi- neers, and in 1891 was elected its president. He presented a report to that society on rapid transit whicb.brought about the building of the elevated railroads in New York. He was chairman of the association of engineering societies in 1893; an lionorary member of the British institution of civil engineers, and president of the We.stern so- ciety of engineers from 1901. He wrote Pro- gress in Flying Macliines (with George Morison. 1894) to which subject he was devoted.

CHAPELLE, Placide Louis, EC. archbishop, was born at Mende, France, Aug. 28, 1842. He came to America in 1859 with an uncle, a missionary. He was educated for the priest hood and made his tlieological studies at St. Mary's seminarj-, Baltimore, Md. Being t( o

young to receive ordination, he taught for two years in St. Charles college, was ordained to the priesthood in 1865, and appointed to the mis- sions in Montgomery covuity, Md. In 1868 the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by St. Mary's, Baltimore. Father Chape lie was made an assistant at St. John's chui-ch, Baltimore, in 1870, and soon afterwards became pastor of St. Joseph's church in the sanie city. In 1883 he was made j^astor of St. Matthew's church in Washington, D. C, and while at the capital won a national renutation. Dr. Chapelle's eminence as a theologian caused him to be frequently in demand. He was one of the board convened by Cardinal Gibbons to prepare the decrees of the last plenary council and was also secretary of one of the most important conunittees of the council. In 1872 he was appointed to the theo- logical conferences held every three months in Baltimore, and in 1885 was elected president of the Columbia conferences, resigning the presi- dency of those in Baltimore. He was resident member of the executive committee of the Catholic university of America, and selected and bought the site on which the university build- ings are erected. For a ntmiber of years Dr. Chapelle was a member of the board of Indian missions, and on Aug. 21, 1891, he was made coadjutor bishop of Santa Fe. He was conse- crated bishop of Arabissus Nov. 1, 1891, by Car- dinal Gibbons and on Jan. 4, 1894, succeeded to the archbishopric. He was transferred to the see of New Orleans, having been appointed Nov, 22, 1897. and the brief received Jan. 6, 1898. He was made apostolic delegate to Cuba in 1898 and to the Phihpi'ine Islands in 1899.

CHAPIN, Aaron Lucius, educator, was born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 6, 1817. He was gradu- ated at Yale college in 1837, and at the L'nion theological seminary. New York, in 1842, mean- while, from 1838 to 1843, teaching in the New York institute for the deaf and dumb. He became pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Milwaukee in 1843; in 1845 was made a trus- tee of Beloit college, and in 1850 was elected president of that institution. This position he resigned in 1886, and became president emeritus and professor of civil polity. He was a member of the board of examiners of the L'nited States military academy in 1872. and of the United States naval academy in 1873. He was jiresident of the Wisconsin academy of sciences and of the board of trustees of the "Wisconsin institution for deaf mutes. He was a trustee of Rockford seminary from 1845 to 1892, and of the Chicago theological seminary from 1858 to 1891. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by "Wil- liams college in 1853. and that of LL.D. by the L'niversitv of the state of New York in 1882. He