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CHAPMAN, Alvan Wentworth, botanist, was born at Southampton, Mass., Sept. 28, 1809; de- ficended from English ancestry. He was grad- uated at Amherst college in 1830; taught in private and public schools of Georgia. 1831- '35, at the same time pursuing studies pre- paratory for the medical profession, until Febru- ary, 1835, when he removed to Florida and studied medicine at Quincy. He received the degree of M.D. from the medical institute of Loviisville, Ky., in 1846. Soon afterwards he removed to Appa- lachicola, Fla., where he practised his profession xmtil 1880, when he retired. In the reconstruc- tion period he held the offices of collector of internal revenue, and afterwards collector of customs at the port of Appalachicola, and for sev- eral years was judge of probate for Franklin county, Fla. In 1860 lie published Flora of the JSoiitliern United States. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1886. He died in 1899.

CHAPMAN, Frederick Augustus, painter, was born in Old Saybrook, Conn., April 18, 1818. He entered mercantile life in Boston, but finding it uncongenial he went to New York, where he studied painting under Prof. S. F. B. Morse. In 1850 he removed to Brooklyn, where he engaged in the art of decorating in stained glass. His work in this line includes the window in the Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn. Several of his oil paintings were engraved or lithographed; no- tably, The Perils of Our Forefathers ; TJie Diiij we Celebrate ; Raising the Liberty Pole ; T.' e Receding Race ; Discovery of the Hud- son ; and Tlie Battle of ChanceUorsviUe. He was founder and first president of the Brooklyn art association, and contributed many paintings to the exhibitions of that society. For some years before his death he chiefly employed him- self in illustrating. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 26. 1891.

CHAPMAN, George Thomas, clergyman, was born in Pilton, Devonshire, England, Sept. 21, 1786. He was brought to the United States at the age of nine, and in 180-1 was graduated at Dartmouth college. He received the honorary ■degree of B.A. in 1805 from Yale college. He practised law at Bucksport, Me., lor abovit ten years, and in 1818 was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He became rector of a church in Lexington, Ky., and remained in that city ten years, holding the chair of history and antiquities in Transylvania university from 1825 to 1827. After leaving Lexington he lield pastorates in Maine, New Jersey and Massachusetts. In 1824 Transylvania university conferred upon him the degree of D.D. He is the author of : Sermoyis on Doetri)ies of the Episcopal Church (1828). He died in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 18, 1872.

CHAPMAN, Henry Cadwalader, physician, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 17, 1845; son of George William and Emily (Markoe) Chap- man, and grandson of Dr. Nathaniel Chapman. He was graduated at the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1864, and from the medical school of that institution in 1867. He studied in Europe for three years. On his return home he became resident physician at the Pennsylvania hospital, and lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1880 he became professor of medicine and medical jurisprudence at Jefferson medical college, and held that posi- tion in 1899. He was coroner's physician in Phila- delphia, 1876-'81. In 1868 he became a member of the Academy of natural science, Philadelphia, and its curator in 1875. He was made a fellow of the College of physicians, Philadelphia, 1880; was also a member of the Franklin institute and prosector of the Zoological society, Philadelphia. He received the degree of A.M. from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1864, and that of M.D. frona the same institution in 1867, and from the Jefferson medical college in 1878. He published : Evolution of Life ; History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood and Treatise upon Human Physiology, besides numerous contribu- tions to medical journals giving the results of his investigations.

CHAPMAN, John Alfred Metcalf, clergyman, was born in Greenland, N. H., Aug. 21, 1829; son of Nathaniel and Martha (Meserve) Chapman, and a descendant of Edward Chapman, who came from England to Ipswich. Mass., in 1642. He was educated at the public schools, at Water- ville (Me.) college, and at the Concord (N. H.) Biblical institute. He was licensed as a Method- ist Episcopal clergyman in 1853, and preached in New England, New York and Philadelphia. In 1891 he became chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania. He received the degree A.M. from Colby in 1869 and that of D.D. from Wes- leyan university in 1871.

CHAPMAN, John Qadsby, painter, was born in Alexandria, Va.. in 1S08. When quite young he evinced a decided talent for design, and for several years studied art in Italy, and, returning to the United States, opened a studio in New York, where he was employed in portrait paint- ing, composition and illustrative designs. He was skilled in the arts of etching and wood en- graving. He was commissioned by the govern- ment to paint the Baptism of Pocaliontas for the rotunda of the capitol. In 1848 he returned to Rome, Italy, where he set up his studio. He made several excellent copies of the old masters and produced a large amount of original work. Among the more noted of his pictures are : Israelites spoiling the Egyptians, Etruscan