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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. lipman, Norton Parker, soldier, lawyer, ressman, was born March 7, 1834, in MilCentre, Ohio. At the close of the civil he was brevetted brigadier-general. He appointed secretary of the territorial Tnment of the District of Columbia at wganization. In 1871-75 he was a terriil delegate to the forty-second and fortyi congresses as a republican, lisholm, Alexander K., soldier, journalist, born Nov. 19, 1834, in Beaufort, S.C. served in the civil war as a confederate ier; and rose to the rank of colonel. In he removed to New York City, and esished the Financial and Mining Record, onnection with a bond and stock brokerbusiness. lusholm, Hugh J., manufacturer, railroad lident, was born May 2, 1847, in Canada, organized the Somerset fibre company, lufacturers of wood-pulp at Fairfield, ne. He organized and is president of the tland and Rumford Falls railroad; and is president of'^he Rumford Falls and geley railroad. hisholm, Walter Scott, lawyer, jurist, road president, was born Nov. 17, 1836, Jolumbus, Ga. He was judge of Savannah court in 1863-78; was president of the bama Midland railroad and a director of umber of business corporations. He died 5, 1890, in New York City. hisholm, William, manufacturer, invenwas bom Aug. 12, 1825, in Scotland. He 'nted machinery for the manufacture of 1 shovels, spades and scoops; and estabed the Chisholm steel shovel works at .'eland, Ohio. hisholm, William, manufacturer, business sideiit, was born May 22, 1843, in Canada. ce the death of his father he has been iident of the Union rolling mills of CleveOhio. Under his management these i, Is have grown into an industry of the first lortance. The capital stock is four mildollars. He died in 1905 in Cleveland, hittenden, Clyde C, judge circuit court of higan. He is judge of the twenty-eighth ie circuit court of Michigan for the term 1902-06; and resides in Cadillac, Mich, hittenden, Ezra P., educator, clergyman, t, was born Feb. 22, 1851, in Westbrook, n. He has been professor of mental and sical sciences in St. John's school of Sa)

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1889 he graduated from Harvard university; and has received the degrees of A.M., M.E., CE. and Ph.D. In 1892-94 he was professor

mathematics in Princeton college; then at Columbia in 1894-99; and since 1899 has filled the same chair in the Brooklyn polytechnic institute. As a lawyer he acts as an

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expert in engineering law. He is president of the New York alumni of the Worcester polytechnic institute. He is the author of

mathematical Monographs; and is the Calculus and Theory of Binary Forms. Chittenden, Lucius Eugene, lawyer, author, was born in 1824 in Vermont. He was registrar of the United States treasury. He is the author of Personal Reminiscences; Recollections of Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical episode of the war between the states; and The Capseveral

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ture of Ticonderoga. He died in 1900 in Burlington, Vt. Chittenden, Martin, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born March 12, 1769, in Salisbury, Conn. He was a member of the convention that adopted the United States constitution; in 1790 he was elected county clerk and representative, to which position he was re-elected for six years successively,, and also at occasional subsequent intervals. He was judge of the county court in 1793-95; chief justice in 1796-1803. In 1803-13 he was a representative from Vermont to the eighth to the twelfth congresses. He was the fifth governor of Vermont in 1813-14; and was judge of probate in 1821-22. He died Sept. 5, 1841, in Williston, Vt. Chittenden, Russell Henry, educator, auwas born Feb. 18, 1850, in New Haven, Conn In 1875 he graduated with the degree from Yale of Ph.B. and has university ; also received the degrees of Ph.D., LL.D.

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