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delegates and was speaker of the assembly. On April 29, 1774, he became chief justice of Penn- sylvania. At the opening of the revolution Justice Chew sided with the Eoyalists, and when, in 1777, he refused his parole, he, with John Penn, the proprietary of Pennsylvania, was placed under ari'est, but they were allowed to retire to Mr. Chew's j^roperty, Union Forge, N. J., and were released from arrest the next year. His stately mansion in Germantown, Pa. , still standing in 1897, was the resort of Tories and British ofl&cers, and before the battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777, the English troops used it as a fort ; it was cannonaded by Wash- ington's army as it entered the place, but the stone walls resisted the assault, and the prog- ress of the army was delayed, giving the British forces a decided advantage. From 1791 till 1806 he served as president of the high court of errors and appeals. He died in Germantown, Pa., Jan. 20, 1810.

CHEW, Richard Smith, naval officer, was born near Washington, D. C, Sept. 7, 1843; son of Robert Smith and Elizabeth R. (Smith) Chew. He was graduated at the United States naval academy in 1861, was promoted lieutenant. Feb. 22, 1864, and lieutenant-commander, July 25, 1866. In April, 1862, he took part in the engage- ment between the Minnesota and the Merrimac. On Aug. 5, 1864, he participated in the battle of Mobile Bay. He was retired Feb. 2, 1875, and died in Washington. D. C, April 10, 1875.

CMEW, Robert Smith, government clerk, was born in Virginia in 1811; son of Robert Smith and Elizabeth (French) Cliew; grandson of Robert and Molly (Parrott) Chew, and a lineal descendant of Joseph, second son of John and Sarah Chew. About 1845 he became a govern- ment clerk in the state department in Washing ton, D. C, and in July. 1866, was promoted chief clerk, to succeed William Hunter, appointed assistant secretary of state. His continuous service under seven successive administrations made him an authority on affairs of state. He died in Washington, D. C, Aug. 3, 1873.

CHICKERINQ, Charles A., representative, was born in Harrisburg, Lewis county, X. Y., Nov. 26, 1843. He was educated at the common schools, and at Lowville academy, where he afterwards became a teacher. From 1845 to 1875 he was a school commissioner of Lewis county. Was a member of the assembly in 1879, '80 and '81 ; in 1884 he was elected clerk of the assembly, and was re-elected each year up to and inclusive of 1890; also served as secretary- of the Repub- lican state committee. In 1892 he was elected a representative in the 53d Congress as a Repub- lican, and was re-elected to tlie 54th and 55th. He died in New York city, Feb. 12, 1900.

CHICKERINQ, Charles Frank, manufacturer, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 20, 1827; son of Jonas Chickering. He attended school until 1841, when he entered his father's manufactory to become familiar with the piano business. He introduced the Chickering piano into India ^vhen he was but seventeen years old. In 1851 he went to England in the interest of his father, who exhibited his stock at the London world's fair, and two years later he became a member of the firm. At the Paris exposition of 1867 he was awarded the cross and ribbon of the Legion of Honor. He became senior partner of the firm in 1871, on the decease of his brother. In 1875 he built Chickering Hall in New York city, at that time the largest music hall in that city. He was prominent in musical circles, and held the office of president of the Handel and Haydn society of Boston. The first musical festival in the United States was projected by him. He died in New York city. March 22, 1891.

CHICKERINQ, Jesse, statistician, was born at Dover. N. H., Aug. 21, 1797. He was gradu- ated at Harvard college in 1818, and pursued a divinity course there, graduating in 1821, and in the same year receiving his A.M. He became a L^nitarian minister, but later returned to his alma mater to pursue the study of medicine. He was graduated M. D. in 1833, and practised as a physician in Boston and AVest Roxbury. He published : Statistical Vietv of the Population of Massachusetts from 1765 to IS40 (1846) ; Emi- gration into the United States (1848) ; Reports on the Census of Boston (1851), and A Letter Addressed to the President of the United States on Slavery considered in Relation to the Princi- 2)les of Constitutional government in Great Brit- ain and the United States (1855). He died in West Roxbury. Mass., May 29. 1855.

CHICKERINQ, John White, clergyman. Mas born at Woburn, Mass., March 19, 1808; son of Joseph and Betsey (AVhite) Chickering. He ■was graduated at Middlebury college in 1826, and at Andover theological seminary in 1829. From 1830 to 1835 he "was pastor of a Congregational church at Bolton, Mass., and in 1835 accepted a call to the High street church in Portland, Me., where he remained until 1865. From 1865 to 1870 he was secretary of the Suffolk temperance union, and from 1870 until his death he held the same position in the Massachusetts and the Con- gressional temperance societies. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin college in 1855. He died at Brooklyn, N. Y. . Dec. 9, 1888.

CHICKERINQ, John White, educator, was born at Bolton, Mass., Sept. 11, 1831; son of John White and Frances E. (Knowlton) Chick- ering. The family came to New England about 1670, and is descended from Jeffrey de Chicker-