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 CHURCH

CHURCHILL

1885 from Queens county, and in 1885 he declined the renomination to the New York assembly,

and also the nomi- nation for State senator. In No- vember, 1885, he was appointed

justice of the su- preme court of Da- kota by President Cleveland, and in December of the following year be- came governor of the territory. He retired from the governorship in April, 1889, and re- moved to Seattle, Wash., in 1890. He died in Juneau, Alaska. Nov. 23, 1897.

CHURCH, Pharceilus, clergyman, was born in Seneca, N.Y., Aug. 11, 1801; son of Willard and Sarah (Davis) Church, and grandson of Jonathan and Abigail (Cady) Church. He was graduated from Madison university in 1824, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1825, and was settled as pastor at Poultney, Vt., where he remained until 1828. In the latter year he was married to Chara Emily, daughter of John Conant, of Bran- don, Vt., and afterward held pastorates at Provi- dence, R.I., New Orleans, La., Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, Mass. In 1846 he was sent to Europe as a delegate to the Evangelical alliance. In 1854 he became editor and partial owner of the New York Chronicle, which later merged into the Examiner. He retained his editorial position until 1865, and held his interest in the paper until his death. During his residence in Rochester he became the head of the movement which had for its outcome the establishment of Rochester uni- versity. Madison university conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1847. His chief works are The Philosophy of Benevolence (1836) ; Eeligious Dissensions: their Cause and Cure {\%'iS') ; Antioch (1842) ; Pentecost (1843) ; Life of Theodosia Dean {l8o\) ; Jfajileton, or More Work for the Maine Laics (1853) ; and Seed Truths (1871). He died in Tarrytown, N.Y., June 5, 1886.

CHURCH, Samuel, jurist, was born in Salis- bury, Conn., Feb. 4, 1785; son of Nathaniel and Lois (Ensign) Church. He was graduated at Yale college in 1803 and was admitted to the bar in 1806, practising in his native town. He was postmaster of Salisbury in 1810; justice of the peace in 1818; representative in the General as- sembly in 1820, 1821, 1823, 1824, 1829 and 1831 ; State .senator 1824-27; and a member of the con- stitutional convention in l^l^. He was probate iudge 1821-32; State's attorney, 1825-32; judge

of the superior court and of the supreme court of errors, 1832—17 and in 1847 was elected chief jus- tice. He removed to Litchfield in 1845. Trinity college conferred on him the degree of LL. D. in 1847. He died in Newtown, Conn., Sept. 13, 1854.

CHURCH, Sanford Elias, jurist, was born in Milford, Otsego coimty, N.Y., April 18, 1815. He was admitted to the bar and settled at Albion, N.Y. He was elected a member of the State as- sembly from Orleans county as a Democrat in 1842, and was district attorney for his county, 1846-51. He was lieutenant-governor of New York, 1851-55, and comptroller of the state, 1858-.59. In 1867 he was appointed chairman of the committee on finance in the constitutional convention. -This body organized a new court of appeals to comprise one chief justice and six associate justices, the term of office to be four- teen years, and at the election held May 17, 1870, Mr. Church was elected chief justice. He re- ceived the degree of LL. D. from the L'niversity of Rochester in 1868. He died at Albion, N.Y., May 14, 1880.

CHURCH, William Conant, journalist, was born in Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 11, 1836; son of Pharceilus and Chara Emily (Conant) Church; grandson of Willard Church, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and a descendant of Richard Church who came from England in 1630 ; and on his mother's side of Roger Conant, first governor of Cape Ann colony. He removed to Boston in 1848 and attended the Latin school until 1851. In 1853 he went to New York and there co-oper- ated with his father in editing the Chronicle, which was later united with the Examiner. In 1860 he became the publisher of the New York Sun and during the first two years of the civil war was correspondent of the New York Times, under the pen-name " Pierrepont." On Oct. 4, 1862, he was appointed captain, U.S. volunteers, on the staft of Major-General Silas Casey, and in 1865 became brevet major and lieutenant-colonel. In 1882 he was a member of a commission ap- pointed to inspect the Northern Pacific railroad. In conjunction with his brother Francis Phar- ceilus he established in 1863 the Arjny and yavy Journal, and became its editor and proprietor. From 1866 to 1878 he edited The Galaxy. He was made a member of the Century association in 1805, and of the Authors' club in 1889. He was one of the founders and first president of the National rifle association, and was one of the founders and senior vice-commander of the New York commandery of the Militarj' Order of the Loyal Legion. He is the author of a Life of John Ericsson (1891) and a Life of Ulysses S. Grant (1897).

CHURCHILL, George Bosworth, educator, was born in Worcester. Mass., Oct. 24, 1866 ; son