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CHIPLEY, William Dudley, railway man- ager, was uorn at Columbus, Ga., in 1840; son of Dr. William S. Chipley, and a grandson of Eev. Stephen Chipley, both natives of Lexing- ton, Ky. He was educated at the Kentucky military institute, near Frankfort, and at Tran- s y 1 V a n i a university, Lexington. When the civil war began he en- listed in the Confeder- ate army as sergeant- major of the 9th Ken- tucky regiment, w a s afterwards made adju- tant and was appointed as the officer to collect and formulate the rec- ord of the Kentucky troops, with rank of cap- tain, which work he performed without neg- lecting his duties in the field, but the records were burned at Augusta, Ga. He was wounded at Shiloli and again at Chickamauga. After the war he settled at Columbus, Ga., became prominent in the city government and projected and commenced the construction of the Columbus and Eome railroad. Subsequently he took charge of the southern interest of the Baltimore and Ohio and Virginia Midland roads, and in December, 1876, he became general manager of the Pensacola railroad. He also established a steamshii) line to Havana, and another to Cedar Keys. He left those roads to become superintendent of the Mobile and Mont- gomery railroad, together with the leased line from Montgomery to Selma, and at the same time bought the Columbus and Rome road. In 1881 he resigned all other interests to build the Pensacola and Atlantic road, which he had pro- jected and chartered, and of which he became vice-president. He was mayor of Pensacola three years, resigning in his fourth term. He was also chairman of the Democratic committee and represented Escambia county in the state senate. He was a candidate for the U. S. senate in 1897, and after a close and exciting contest his opponent was declared elected. He was a foun- der of tlie Florida Chautauqua and its home, De Funiak Springs, Walton county, Fla. He died in Washington, D.C, Dec. 1, 1897.

CHIPMAN, Daniel, representative, was born in Salisbury, Conn., Oct. 22, 1763; son of Samuel and Hannah (Austin) Chipman; was graduated from Dartmouth in 1788, studied law with his brother Nathaniel, practised in Poultney, Vt., 1790-'94, when he removed to Middlebury, which he represented in the Vermont legislature sev- eral times from 1798 to 1808, when he was

elected to the governor's council. He was mar- ried in 1796 to Eletheria, sister of Prof. Levi Hedge of Harvard. He was again a representa- tive in the state legislature 1812, '13, '14, '18, and '21, and speaker 1813-'14. He was elected a representative in Congress in 1814, and resigned after the first session of the 14tli Congress on account of ill-health. He was a member of five state constitutional conventions, 1793, 1814, '36, '43 and '50, and state's attorney of Addison county twenty years, 1797-1817. He was professor of law in Middlebury college, and a member of the corporation from its foundation, from 1806 to 1816. He received the degree of LL.D. from Middlebury college in 1849. As first reporter of the supreme court he published : L,aw of Con- tracts (1822) ; Reports of Cases in Supreme Court of Vt. (1824-'35). and afterwards wrote biogra- phies of iVaf7io?i/eZ C/i?p7)i«?i (1846) ; Seth Warner and Gen. Tliomas Chittenden (1849). He died at Ripton. Vt.. April 23, 1850.

CHIPMAN, John Logan, lawyer, was born in Detroit, Mich. , June 5, 1830 ; son of Judge Henry and Martha Mary (Logan) Chipman, and grand- son of Nathaniel Chipman, U. S. senator and judge of the supreme court. He received a public-school education, and in 1843-'45 attended the University of Michigan. In 1846 he made explorations in the Lake Superior region. He was afterwards admitted to the bar; aided in paying the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior, and in making the Detroit treaty with them and the Ottawas in 1854. He was city attorney of Detroit in 1856-'61 ; a member of the state legis- lature in 1863, and attorney of the Detroit police board from 1865 to 1879. He was elected judge of the superior court of Detroit, May 1, 1879, and re-elected for a second term of six years. In 1886 he was elected a representative to the 50th congress, and twice re-elected, serving 1887-93. He died in Detroit, Mich., Aug. 17, 1893.

CHIPMAN, Nathaniel, jurist, was born in Salisbury, Conn,, Nov. 15, 1752; son of Samuel and Hannah (Austin) Chipinan. John Chipman, his first American ancestor, came from England in 1630 and settled in Connecticut. He was graduated from Yale in 1777, served as a lieuten- ant in the revolutionary army at Valley Forge, Monmouth and White Plains, returned to Litch- field, Conn., studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1779. and settled in Tinmouth, Vt., where he, in addition to practising law, cultivated a farm and manufactured bar iron. He served in the general assembly of 1784-"85. In 1786 he was elected assistant judge of the superior court and was chief justice 1789-'91. In 1791 he was a commissioner to Congress to negotiate for the admission of Vermont, and on its admission Presi- dent Washington appointed him United States