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at the head of the Pennsylvania institution for instruction for the blind. He was the founder and president of the Philadelphia City institute. He died Sept. 20, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa. Chaplin, Mrs. Ada C, litterateur, author, was born Jan. 25, 1842, in Falmouth, Mass. She was a Massachusetts writer of religious juveniles. She was the author of Christ's Cadets; Charity Hurlburt; and Our Gold Mine, the Story of American Baptist Missions in India. She died Dec. 9, 1883, in Mansfield, Conn. Chaplin, Christine, painter, poet, was born in 1842 in Bangor, Maine. Her specialty is painting wild flowers in water colors. Her pictures have been exhibited at the watercolor society of New York City, in Brooklyn and at the Boston art club. She has written several little books of poetry, illustrated by herself. Chaplin, Daniel, soldier, was born in Maine. In 1861 he was captain of the second regiment Maine infantry; and in 1864 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Aug. 20, 1864, in Deep Bottom, Va.

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lawyer, author, 1847 in Rhode Island. He was a noted lawyer of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Five Hundred Dollars, and Other Chaplin,

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Stories of New England Life. Chaplin, Mrs. Jane Dunbar, litterateur, author, was born Feb. 11, 1819, in Scotland. Among her various writings, mainly religious juveniles, are The Transplanted Shamrock; Black and White; and The Convent and the Manse. She died April 17, 1884, in

Boston, Mass. Chaplin, Jeremiah, educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 2, 1776, in Georgetown, Mass. He was the first president of Colby university in 1822-33. He was the author of The Evening of Life. He died May 7, 1841, in Hamilton, N.Y. Chaplin, Jeremiah, clergyman, author, was born in 1813 in Danvers, Mass. He was the author of The Memorial Hour; The Hand of niches of Bunyan Jesus Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College; Chips from the White House; Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dunbar; and Life of Charles Sumner. He died March 5, 1886, in New Utrecht, N.Y. Chaplin, Winfield Scott, soldier, educator, was born Aug. 32, 1847, in Glenburn, Maine. Prior to 1872 he was second lieutenant of the fifth artillery. In 1873-77 he was professor of civil engineering in the Maine state college at Orono. Since 1891 he has been chancellor of Washington university at St. Louis,

Mo. Chapman, Alvan Wentworth, botanist, author, was born Sept. 28, 1809, in Southampton, Mass. He was known as a, botanist for whom the genus Chapmannia was named. He was the author of Flora of the Southern United States. He died in 1899 in Apalachicola, Fla.

Chapman, Andrew Grant, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1839, in La Platte, Md. He was a representative in the Marylaiid state legislature in 1868, 1870 and 1872. In 1881-83 he was a representative from Maryland to- the forty-seventh congress as a democrat. Chapman, Augustus A., congressman, was born in 1816 in Virginia. In 1843-47 he was a representative from Virginia, to the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses. He died in Virginia. Chapman, Bird B., congressman, was born in Connecticut. He moved to Nebraska; and in 1855-57 was a territorial delegate from Nebraska to the thirty-fourth congress. He died in Nebraska. Chapman, Charles, lawyer, congressman, was born June 21, 1799, in Newtown, Conn. He was three times elected to the legislature; and in 1841-45 was United States district attorney. In 1851-53 he was a representative to the thirty-second congress; and was temperance candidate for governor in 1854. He died Aug. 7, 1869, in Hartford, Conn. Chapman, Charles Hiram, educator, colpresident, was born Oct. 28, 1869, in Columbia county. Wis. For many years he filled the chair of mathematics in the Johns Hopkins university; which position he relege

signed to accept the presidency of the university of Oregon.

Chapman, Edward Mortimer, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 27, 1862, in Saybrook, Conn. In 1890 he was a pastor of Rochester, N.H. and since 1906 has preached in Old Lyme, Conn. He is the author of The Dynamic of Cliristianity.

Chapman, Edwin Nesbit, physician, author, was born Feb. 26, 1819, in Ridgefield, Conn. He was professor of therapeutics and materia medica in Long Island college hospital. He was the author of Treatise on Hysterology; and Antagonism of Alcohol and Diphtheria. He died March 2, 1888, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Chapman, Ervin S., clergyman, reformer, author, was born June 23, 1838, in Defiance, county, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools and under private tuition; and has received the degrees of A.M., D.D. and LL.D. In 1864-69 he was committee clerk in the United States house of representatives at Washington, D.C. In 1870-98 he was a pastor in Ohio, Wyoming and California; since 1898 has been superintendent of the California anti-saloon league; and he is editor of the Searchlight, its official organ. He is the originator of the stainless fiag movement. He is the author of a work entitled •The Stainless Flag.

Chapman, Frank Michlet, ornithologist, author, was born in 1864 in New Jersey. He is assistant curator of the department of ornithology and mammalogy in the American museum of natural history of New York