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 CHAPMAN.

CHAPMAN.

Girl ; Vintage Scene ; A Donkey's Head ; Rachel ; The Last Arroto ; Pifferine ; First Italian Milestone ; Sunset on the Campagna ; a Harvest Scene ; Valley of Mexico ; Stone Pines in the Barberini Valley, and his cojjie.s of Teniers and other masters owned by the Boston AthenEeum. He was a national acade- mician. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1889.

CHAPMAN, Maria Weston, reformer, was born at Weymoutli, Mass., in 1806; daughter of Warren Weston of Weymouth. Her early edu- cation was obtained in her native town, and she was then sent to England to complete her studies. During 1829-"30 she was principal of the young ladies" high school in Boston. In 18B0 she married, and two years later became an ardent abolitionist. After the death of her hus- band in 1842 she resided in Paris, France, where she employed her pen in behalf of the anti-slavery cause. In 1856 she returned to the United States, and published a life of Harriet Martineau in 1877. She died at Weymouth, Mass., in 1885.

CHAPMAN, Nathaniel, physician, was born in Summer Hill, Fairfax county, Va., May 28, 1780. He was educated at the academy at Alexandria, Va., and was graduated from the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1800 : he then studied under Abernethj^ in London for one year, and took a two years' course at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, where he received the de- gree of M.D. He returned to the United States in 1804, established himself in practice in Phila- delphia, and rose to the front rank of the medi- cal profession. He was assistant professor of midwifery, 1810-'13; professor of materia medi- ca, 1813-"16; and held the chair of the theory and practice of medicine, 1816-'50, in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. In 1817 he fotmded the Philadelphia medical institute, and during twenty years delivered a siunmer course of lec- tures; he was also lecturer on clinics at the hospital of the Philadelphia almshouse. He vas president of the American jjliilosophical society, of the Philadelphia medical society, and hrst presi lent of the American medical association. In 1820 he founded, and for many years edited, the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Phys- ical Sciences. He published : Select Speeches Forensic and Parliamentary (1808); Elements of Therapeutics and Materia Medica (1828) ; Lec- tures on Eruptive Fevers, Henwi'rhages and Drop- sies, and on Gout and Rheumatism, and Lectures on the Thoracic Viscera. He died in Philadel- phia, Pa., July 1.. 1853.

CHAPMAN, Orlow W., lawyer, was born in Ellington, Conn., in 1832. In 1854 lie was gradu- ated at Union college, and was then employed for two years as professor of languages at Fergu

sonville academy, Delaware county, N. Y. lie was admitted to the bar in 1858, and was ap- pointed to fill a vacancy as district-attorney of Broome county in 1862; in 1833 was elected to the ofltice, and was re-elected annually imtil 1868. He was a member of the New York senate during 1870-"71, and was superintendent of the state insurauce department from 1871 to 1876. He was United States solicitor-general from March 29, 1889, to the time of his death in Washington, D. C, Jan. 19, 1890.

CHAPMAN, Reuben, governor of Alabama, was born in Randolph county, Va., July 15, 1799. He was educated at an academy in his native state, was admitted to the bar, and settled in Somerville, Morgan county, Ala., where he prac- tised his profession. He served for many years as a member of the state legislature. He was elected as Democratic I'epresentative to the 24th Congress, taking his seat Dec. 7, 1835, and was re-elected to the six succeeding congresses, serv- ing until March 3, 1847. He was governor of Alabama, 1847-'48, and was a delegate to the na- tional Democratic conventions held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856; in Charleston, S. C, in 1860; and New York city in 1868. He died at Huntsville, Ala., May 17, 1882.

CHAPMAN, Reuben Atwater, jurist, was born at Russell, Hampden county, Mass., Sept. 20, 1801. He received the education of a farmer's son, and was clerking in a store when he began the study of law with a neighboring lawyer. He was admitted to the bar, and practised his profes- sion at Westfield, Monson, Ware, and Springfield, Mass., where from 1840 to 1860 he was a partner with the Hon. George Aslunun. He was made associate justice of the supreme court in 18C0, and chief justice in 1868. Ihe honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Williams in 1836 and by Amherst in 1841, and that of LL.D. by Amherst college in 1801, and by Harvard college in 1864. He died in Switzerland. June 28, 1873. CHAPMAN, Robert Hett, educator, was born in Orange, N. J., March 2, 1772. In 1789 he was graduated at the College of New Jersey, after- wards studied theology at New Brunswick, where he was tutor in Queen's college, and in 1793 was licensed to preach by the New York presbytery. He held pastorates at Rah way, N. J., 1790-99, and Cambridge, N. Y., 1801-12; in the latter year he was appointed president of the University of North Carolina, filling that office and that of trustee of the university until 1816. Later he held pastorates in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. He received the degree of A. M. froiu Queen's college and from the College of New Jersey in 1791. and that of S. T. D. from Williams collage in 1815. He died in Winchester, Va.,. June 18, 1833.