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pastor in Washington, D.C. He served as com- missioner to the general Presbyterian assembly. In 1890 he united with the Protestant Episcopal church, and became associate rector of Trinity church, Washington, D.C. In 1888 he was ap- pointed by President Cleveland a commissioner to negotiate with the southern Ute Indians in regard to a change in their reservation. He received the degree D.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1862, and became arch-deacon of Washington" in 1895. He is the author of The Heritage of Peace (reimblished in England) ; The Lost Faith and Difficnlties of the Scriptures tested hy the laws of Evidence (1888).

CHILTON, Horace, senator, was born in Smith county, Texas. Dec. 29, 1853 ; son of a Confeder- ate soldier killed in battle during the civil war. He entered a printer's office, worked himself up to the case, and later started a newspaper ; from its proceeds, and his earnings as a type-setter, he supported his mother and gave his sister an edu- cation. While editing his paper he studied law, and was admitted to practice. He was appointed assistant attorney-general of the state in 1881 by Governor Rolierts, and was a delegate-at-large to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1888. He was appointed to the U.S. senate in 1891 to fill a vacancy, but failed of election when the legislature convened. He was elected to the U.S. senate, serving, 1895-19U1, and then resumed practice.

CHILTON, Robert Hall, soldier, was born in Loudoun countj', Va., in 1817. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1837 and was appointed 2d lieutenant of dragoons. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1842 ; captain Oct. 6, 1846, and assigned to the 1st dragoons, and was brevetted major, Feb. 23, 1847, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Buena Vista, where he bore Col. Jefferson Davis, who liad been seriously wounded, from the field. He served through the Mexican war, 1846-"47, and was pro- moted major and paymaster, July 25, 1854. He resigned from the U.S. army, April 29, 18G1, and was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the adjutant- general's department of the Confederate st;ites army. He was promoted colonel, Oct. 13, 1862, and brigadier-general, Oct. 20, 1862, and was re- appointed and confirmed brigadier-general, Dec. SI, 1863. He was chief of staff to Gen. Robert E. Lee, and inspector-general of the army of Xorth- ern Virginia. He engaged in business in Colum- bus. Ga.. in 1^64. where he died, Feb. 18, 1879.

CHILTON, Thomas, representative, was born in Elizabt4htown,Ky., July 30, 1798; brother of Judge William P. Chilton. He was admitted to the bar and established a successful practice. He was repeatedly elected to the state legislature,

and in 1828 was chosen a representative to the 20th Congress. He was re-elected to the 21st Congress, and also served in the 23d Congress. In 1842 he entered the Baptist ministry and preached for several years in Montgomery, Ala. He sub- sequently made his home in Montgomery, Tex., where he died Aug. 15. 1854.

CHILTON, William Parish, jurist, was born in Kentucky in 1810; son of the Rev. Thomas John Chilton and a brother of Thomas Chil- ton. His father was a Baptist minister, and his mother was a sister of Judge Jesse Bledsoe, of Kentucky. He studied law in Tennessee, and in 1834 removed to Alabama, where he began practice in Mardisville, Talladega county. In 1839 he represented the county in the state legis- lature, and in 1843 he was an unsuccessful candi- date for Congress. He removed to Macon county in 1846, and Dec. 31, 1847, was chosen to succeed Judge Ormond on the bench of the supreme court. On the resignation of the chief ju.stice he succeeded to that position, holding the office from Dec. 6, 1852, to Jan. 2, 1856. In 1859 he was elected a state senator from Macon county, and in 1860 removed to Montgomery, Ala. He was a member of the provisional congress in 1861, then a representative in the Confederate congress, and was re-elected in 1863. He was twice married, each time to a sister of Gen. John T. Morgan of Dallas county, Ala. He died at Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 20, 1871.

CHINN, Joseph Graves, physician, was born in Bourbon county, Ky., April 1, 1797; son of William Ball Chinn, and great-grandson of Raleigh Chinn, who emigrated from England, settling in Virginia, and married a Miss Ball, a near relative of Mary Washington. His father removed to Kentucky in 1790 and settled in Bour- bon county, on the estate where the son was born and attended school. When the war of 1812 broke out he enlisted in the army, his father obtaining a special permit from Governor Shelby before the lad of fifteen could be admitted to the ranks. At the battle of Lake Erie he was cap- tured by the Indians, but was afterwards re- leased. He studied at the medical universitj' of Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death he was ninety-four years old, the oldest practitioner in Kentucky. In 1834 he removed to Lexington, where he served six years in the city council. In 1868 he was elected mayor of that city, and he served in that capacity several terms. In politics he was an old-line Whig, and opposed to the civil war. He attributed his long life and his remarkable health to his regular habits, never using tobacco and being a total abstainer from spirituous liquors. He married his third wife wlien he was eighty-two years of age. He died in Lexington, Ky., Sept. 7, 1891.