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of the New York genealogical and biographical society in 1871, and was an honorary or corre- sponding member of almost every genealogical society in the United States, He was a fellow of the Royal historical society. He received from Columbia college the degree of LL.D. in 1877, and from Oxford that of D.C. L. in 1881. His early publications are : Greenwood Cemeterij and other poems (1843) ; A Preliminary Treat- ise on the Laiv of Repidsion (1853) ; Narrative of Margaret Douglas (1854). His publications on genealogical subjects are so numerous that it is possible to mention only the most important : Tlie Marriage. BajJtismal and Burial Registe. s of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of -Vf. Peter, Westminster (1876). A tablet was erected to hia memory by the dean and chapter of West- minster Abbey. He died in London, England, May 28, 1882.

CHESTER, Thomas Morris, soldier, was born in Vermoiit, of colored parents. After graduat- ing from the Thetford (Vt.) academy in 1826. he went to Liberia, where he was superintendent and instructor of the colony of Africans recap- tured from American slavers. He returned to America in 1861, and assisted in the enlistment of colored soldiers in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts regiments. He was the war correspondent, with the army of the James and Potomac, of the Phila- delphia Press. In 1866 he visited Europe and passed the winter in Russia, where he was a special guest of Alexander II. , on the occasion of a grand review of forty thousand troops in St. Petersburg. He afterwards visited Denmark, Sweden, Saxony and England. He then studied law at Middle Temple Inn, London, and was ad- mitted to the English bar in 1870, being the first colored lawyer in England. He returned to America in 1871 and settled in Louisiana, where he practised law and was prominent in estab- lishing schools for the education of colored per- sons. He commanded the Louisiana guard, a militia regiment. In 1873 he was appointed U. S. commissioner, serving until 1879. In 1884 he becam.3 j)resideut of the Wilmington, Wriglits- ville and Onslow railroad in North Carolina. He died in Harrisburg. Pa.. Sept. 30, 1893.

CHESTERflAN, William Dallas, editor, was born in Richmond. Va., July 10, 1845. He was edu- cated in Richmond, and served in the Confederate army until 1864, when he became clerk in the bureau of exchange of prisoners. He entered journalism, was Richmond coi'respondent of the Petersburg Index ; business manager of the Rich- mond ^/igHfre?-; city editor of the Richmond Dis- patch, and subsequently vice-president of the Dis- patch companj^ and managing-editor of the paper.

CHETLAIN, Arthur Henry, jurist, was born in Galena, 111., April 12, 1849; son of Gen. Au-

gustus L. Chetlain. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin in 1870, and took a course in natural science at the Universite Libre, Brussels ; receiving the degree B.S. in 1870. He studied law : served as 1st assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, 1891-"93, and as judge of the Supreme court of Cook county, 111., from 1894.

CHETLAIN, Augustus Louis, soldier, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 26, 1824; son of Swiss parents who emigrated from Neuchatel, Switzer land, to Red River, British America, in 1823. Two years later they removed to the United States, lived in St. Louis during 1825, and early in 1826 settled at Galena, 111., where the son received a common-school education, and entered mercantile life. At a meeting held in Galena in response to President Lincoln's call for volunteers in 1861, he was the first to enlist, and was chosen captain of a company which became a part of the 12th Illinois regiment, of which he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, April 16, 1862. From Septem- ber, 1861, to January, 1862, lie was in command at Smithland, Ky. ; he then rejoined his regiment and led it in the Tennessee campaign. He par- ticipated in the capture of Fort Henry and at the battle of Fort Donelson. He was promoted colonel and led his regiment at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and at the siege of Corinth. May. 1862. After the battle of Corinth, in which lie distinguished him- self, he was left in command of Corinth by Gen- eral Rosecrans. While in this service he recruited the first colored regiment raised in the west. He was relieved in 1863, was promoted brigadier-gen- eral and given charge of the organization of colored troops in Tennessee and Kentucky. He was suc- cessful in raising a force of seventeen thousand men, for which service he received special com- mendation in General Thomas's report to the de- partment of war. During 1864— '65 he was in command of the post of Memphis, and in June of the latter year was brevetted major-general for meritorious service. In the fall of 1865 he was given command of the central district of Alabama, and in February, 1866, was mustered out. In 1867 President Johnson appointed him collector of internal revenue for Utah and Wyoming, and in 1869 General Grant gave him the appointment of U. S. consul-general at Brussels, wJiicli office he resigned in 1872. On his return to the United States he took up his residence in Chicago, where he was made president of the Home bank on its organization in 1872. and of the Industrial bank of Cliicagoin 1891. He published Recollections of Sereitfy Years (1900).

CHEVERUS, John Louis Ann Magdalen Le= febre de, R. C. cardinal, was born in Majenne, France. Jan. 28, 1768. His father was civil judge of Mayenne. and his mother, Ann Lemarchand Do Noyers, was a woman of great piety and learning.