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Winthrop and George E. Ellis preceding him. For several years he was treasurer of the society. He prepared the memoir of Governor Andrew which appears in the society's " Proceedings," and, subse- quently enlarged, was published in a separate vol- ume. Another work from his pen was a striking essay on the " Authenticity of the Gospels," which has passed through several editions. He was a con- stant friend and benefactor of Bowdoin college, and for nearly twenty years he was a member of its board of trustees. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from his Alma Mater. As a counsellor Mr. Chandler was eminent for chamber advice, and before the calamity of deafness fell upon him, in middle life, he was one of the foremost of jury law- yers. Of his public service Judge E. Rockwood Hoar bore this testimony at the meeting of the Suf- folk bar, in June, 1889, in his memory : " He was thoroughly a public-spirited man, and a public man from the time when he began life in this community ; and his influence never ceased until the fifty-two years during which he was a member of the bar were terminated by his death. In every public posi- tion that he filled he learned all about those duties which appertained to that position, and understood them thoroughly thenceforth and forever. When he was chosen a member of the Legislature, and became a member of the governor's council, he learned the whole system and plan of the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and from that time until the day of his death nobody ever gave more counsel, nobody's counsel was more sought, and no- body gave safer or wiser counsel to those who ad- ministered the affairs of the State than he." In religious belief Mr. Chandler was a Swedenborgian. Mr. Chandler was married in 1837, in Brunswick, Me., to Martha Ann Bush, daughter of the late Prof. Parker Cleveland, of Bowdoin. They had one daughter and two sons : Ellen Maria, Horace Parker, and Parker Cleveland Chandler. Mrs. Chandler died at their summer homestead in Brunswick, in November, 1881.
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practice. In this relation he continued for three years, and then established an office for himself. Dr. Chandler is the dean of the dental depart- ment of Harvard University, and has occupied the chair of professor of mechanical dentistry since 1854. He has held various positions in many of the leading dental organizations, and has been president of the Massachusetts Dental Society, the New England Dental Society, and the American Academy of Dental Science. He has also been a member of the Boston school committee, and has held other responsible positions.
CHAPIN, CHARLES TAFT, son of Charles Edwin and Fannie Wood Fisk (daughter of Benjamin and Mary Fisk, of Millbury, Mass.), was born in Dor- chester Nov. 1, 1855. He attended Chauncy Hall School until seventeen years of age, afterwards tak- ing a course in Comer's Business College. In September, 1874, he began as clerk with Chapin & Co., coal and wood dealers, successors to Pres- cott & Chapin, growing up in the business from that position to part owner. On May 1, 1889, he entered into partnership with Benjamin D. Wood, under the firm name of Chapin, Wood, & Co. Their place of business, Liverpool wharf, No. 512 Atlantic avenue, is noted as the site of the famous Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773. Since 1838 it has been the place of business of Mr. Chapin's grandfather, father, and himself, under firm names of Prescott & Chapin ( 1829-74), and Chapin & Co. (1874-89), Chapin, Wood, & Co. since May, 1889. Politically Mr. Chapin is a Republican. He is an attendant of the Rev. Dr. Arthur Little's church, Congregational (old Second Parish Church). He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Royal Society of Good Fellows. He was married Feb. 15, 1882, to Annie M .; daughter of Col. Isaac, jr., and Sarah Wood, of Newburgh, N.Y. They have four children, two boys and two girls : Arthur W., Gerard, Ada L., and Marjorie Chapin. Mr. Chapin resides in Ashmont.
business, which was successfully pursued for twenty years. Then, in 1860, under the firm name of Richardson & Chapin, he engaged in the distilling business ; and in 1877 the present firm of Chapin, Trull, & Co. was established : its works are now in the Charlestown district, and headquarters in the city proper. Mr. Chapin has long been prominent in local affairs. He served in the Charlestown common council from 1856 to 1860, and in the board of aldermen in 1861 and 1872 ; he was on the board of assessors in Charlestown and Boston from 1867 to 1879, and was one of the commission- ers to carry into effect the act providing for the annexation of Charlestown to Boston; he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1877-8; and he has been for twenty-three con- secutive years in active service upon the school boards of Charlestown and Boston, a leading and influential member. He was for many years a director in the Middlesex Horse Railway Company, and he is now a director in the Bunker Hill National Bank and a trustee of the Warren Institution for Savings. He is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. He is an active member of the Old City Guard of Charlestown. Mr. Chapin was married in 1841, in . Waltham, to Miss Lucy Farwell. Of their four children, two, George Francis and Lucy E. F. Chapin, are living, and both are now married ; of the other two, John Henry and Nahum Harvey Chapin, the latter died at thirty-nine years of age.
CHAPMAN, JOHN H., architect, is a native of New York. He graduated from Yale College, and studied his profession with Messrs. Ware & Van Brunt, also in the Sheffield Scientific School, and in the Royal Academy at Stuttgart. Mr. Chapman early began to make a specialty of artistic country houses, and followed the principle that each side or view of the structure should be equally beautiful and picturesque. As a result his work is famous for artistic outline, which is accomplished without any sacrifice of in- terior comfort or convenience. He is the architect of Congressman Sherman Hoar's handsome residence at Waltham, of that of Rev. Mr. Hutchins at Concord, the new Episcopal church and high-school buildings in the same place, the armory in Nashua, N.H., besides numbers of private residences in this and other States. Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Barrett, of Concord, a daughter of Jonathan Fay Barrett.
CHAPIN, NAHUM, son of Harvey and Mattie (Rossa) Chapin, was born in Jamaica, Vt., July 16, 1820. His parents removed to Waltham in 1824, and. here his education was obtained in the local schools and Smith's Academy, where he spent four years. After graduating from the academy he became an apprenticed machinist in the works of the Boston Manufacturing Company, in Waltham, and four years later was made overseer there. After three years in this position he removed to Charles- CHASE, ANDREW J., was born in Sebec, Me. His town, where he established a provision and produce education was obtained in the local schools, and he
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began his business career in a wholesale grocery store in Portland, Me. He early became interested in the insurance business, and in 1868 was made agent of the Travellers' of Hartford, Conn., with his headquarters in Portland. With this company he remained for twenty years. Then he resigned and entered the real-estate business. Subsequently, in April, 1891, he became manager of the United States Life Insurance Company, in which position he has since continued. He is a prominent member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. In 1865 he was married to Hattie W. Lowney, of Bangor, Me .; they have five children : H. Louise, Bertha M., Walter D., Clarence A., and Arthur W. Chase.
CHASE, CALEB, son of Job and Phoebe (Winslow) Chase, was born in Harwich, Mass., Dec. 11, 1831. His father in early life was a ship-owner and sea- faring man. Afterwards he kept a general store at Harwich until about twenty years previous to his death. He was largely interested in public affairs, was one of the original stockholders in the old Yarmouth Bank, and among the foremost in public enterprises of his day. He died at the age of eighty-nine. Caleb Chase worked in the store at Harwich until he was twenty-three years of age. He then came to Boston and entered the employ of Anderson, Sargent, & Co., a leading wholesale dry- goods house. He travelled in its interests on the Cape and in the West until September, 1859, when he joined with the wholesale grocery house of Cloflin, Saville, & Co. Here he remained until Jan. 1, 1864, soon after which the firm of Carr, Chase, & Raymond was formed. In 1871 the firm of Chase; Raymond, & Ayer was organized, which existed until 1878, when the present house of Chase & Sanborn began business, importing teas and coffees exclu- sively. Mr. Chase is now the head of this firm, which ranks as the largest importing and distributing tea and coffee house in the United States. The firm have branch houses in Montreal and Chicago. Mr. Chase's business career has been an uninter- rupted success. He has often been solicited to enter the field for public office, but has always declined, preferring to use his energies in his business life. He married Salome Boyles. They have no children. .
CHASE, HORACE, M.D., son of the late Stephen Chase, of Haverhill, Mass., was born in Plaistow, N.H., Dec. 31, 1831. He was educated in the local schools, graduating from the High School in Haverhill, Mass. After studying medicine for two years in Richmond, Va., he went abroad and con- tinued his studies in universities in Würtzburg,
Prague, Vienna, and Berlin, where he received the degree of M.D. in February, 1865. During his studies abroad, which covered a period of seven
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years, he made heart disease a specialty. Immedi- ately after his return, in 1866, he became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and afterwards held the following positions : United States pension surgeon, surgeon for United States witnesses and prisoners confined in Charles-street jail, and sur- geon of First Battalion of Massachusetts Militia. He has also been employed as expert in analysis of blood in many noted murder-trials. Dr. Chase was first married upon his return from Europe to Miss Jeannette H., daughter of Joseph A. Lloyd, of Lynn, Mass., by whom he had one son, DeForest W., who is now associated with him in his practice. His first wife died in 1874, and in 1889 he married for his second wife Miss Jeannie P., daughter of the late Eben B. Phillips, of Swampscott, Mass.
CHENERY, ELISHA, M.D., was born in Livermore, Me., Aug. 23, 1829. His ancestors and those of his wife were Puritans, the four families coming to this country and settling in Watertown and Roxbury about ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims. Lambert Chenery brought two sons, John and Moses, and went from Watertown to Dedham as one of the first proprietors, where Moses, marrying a Dorches- ter woman, remained, becoming the father of Dr.
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Moses Chenery. John married widow Boylston, the War of 1812. Jonathan Parker, of Roxbury, her mother of Dr. Thomas Boylston, first chirurgeon of Brookline, through whom she became the grand- mother of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, famous for intro- ducing inoculation for small-pox in Boston the same year that Lady Wortley Montagu brought the art into England. This was seventy years prior to the discovery of vaccination by Jenner. After their marriage John went to live on his wife's " homestall," which Boylston had purchased of the first proprie- tor and which has been occupied by the Chenerys ever since ; it is just on the edge of the present town of Belmont. After the birth of one son, John was killed in a fight with the Indians at Northfield in King Philip's war. Dr. Chenery's great-grand- father was at Lexington and Bunker Hill. His grandfather saw the smoke and heard the roar of the battle, and being too young to enlist, he served his country by providing water and fuel for the women, then gathered for protection into a stockade on the Charles River. About the year 1795 he moved to Maine. The mother of Dr. Chenery was a Phil- brick, of the line of Judge Joseph Philbrick, late of Weare, N.H., and the late John D. Philbrick, twenty
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years superintendent of the Boston public schools. Several of this family bore part in the Revolutionary struggle. One leaving Harvard College joined the Ticonderoga campaign. Others were in the War of 1812. Mrs. Chenery's father was a veteran of the
great-grandfather on her mother's side, was the man who got away with two of General Braddock's can- nons stored in the gun-house in Boston, while a neighbor followed his example with two more. These cannons were carried off in loads of manure and successfully secreted in Muddy-pond woods, near Dedham. They were brought into service by the Americans, and two of them were recaptured at the Bunker Hill fight, and the other two may be seen to-day in the Bunker Hill monument. Dr. Chenery's early life was passed on the farm. His schooling was at the town and high schools and several years at the seminary at Kent's Hill. He abandoned the set college course to give more time to the study of medicine and its collaterals. He entered the office of the late Dr. A. P. Childs, of Maine, took his first course of lectures at Bowdoin, and was six months in the Marine Hospital, Chelsea. Then, entering with the late Dr. E. B. Moore, of Boston, he practised with him, attended the second course of lectures at Harvard, his third at Bowdoin, and his fourth at Harvard, where he graduated March 2, 1853, being the first Chenery in his family line to become a physician ; now his nephew, Fred. L., and his son, William E., have followed his example. Buy- ing out a doctor in Maine, he entered at once upon a large and responsible practice. In 1862 he passed . for a surgeon in the army and started for the front, but being overtaken by an attack of diphtheria was compelled to resign and was left in feeble health un- til after the war was over. Having spent thirteen years in his native State, he returned to Massachu- setts, residing three years in Cambridge and since 1870 in Boston. He has been a member of the Maine Medical Association, joining the second year of its organization, and of the Middlesex South Dis- trict Medical Society. He is now a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, member of the Suffolk District Medical Society, and a member of the American Medical Association. From 1876 to 1880 he was professor of pathology and therapeu- tics at the Boston Dental College, and dean of the faculty. From 1881 to 1885 he was professor of principle and practice of medicine, and instructor on the diseases of women and children, in the Col- lège of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston. Dr. Chenery wrote a prize essay on " Food and Cooking," and has contributed many articles to the religious, secular, and medical press. Among the latter may be mentioned " Double Conception " (" Boston Med- ical and Surgical Journal," 1871) ; "Chloral and Morphine " (the same, 1874) ; " Diphtheria Suc- cessfully Treated " (the same, 1876) ; " Some Points
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in the Treatment of Typhoid Fever," and " Signs which should lead us to suspect Disease in Infants, and what that Disease is" (" Medical Register," 1887) ; a series of articles on " Studies on Alcohol " (" Times and Register," 1888-9). He is the au- thor of " Alcohol Inside Out, Facts for the Mil: lions," 1889, and " Does Science justify the Use of Alcohol in Therapeutics? If so, Where? When?" (" Journal of the American Medical Association," Nov. 28, 1891).
CHENEY, JOHN E., was born in Lowell Feb. 12, 1847. He received his early instruction in the pub- lic schools of that city, and then took a year's course in the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Univer- sity. Then he was employed in the engineering department of the Charlestown Navy Yard, where he remained for one and one-half years. At the end of this period he was for two years engaged in his profession in several places, and in 1870 went to Louisville, Ky., where he was employed by the Louis- ville Bridge and Iron Company. After three and one-half years spent in Louisville he returned to Boston, and in February, 1874, entered the office of the city engineer, where he is still engaged.
CHILD, LINUS M., was born in Southbridge, Mass.,
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March 14, 1835. He is a son of the Hon. Linus Child, a native of Connecticut, who graduated from
Yale College in 1824, for eighteen years practised law in Worcester county, and was elected six times to the State senate on the Whig ticket. In 1845 he removed to Lowell, and in 1862 thence to Boston, where he continued in successful practice until his death, Aug. 26, 1870. Linus M. Child graduated from Yale College in 1855, and studied law under his father. Admitted to the bar in 1859, he at once began active practice, rising steadily, until to-day he occupies a position in the front rank of his profession. He is a Republican in politics, and has represented his ward in the com- mon council for two years, and in the State Legis- lature during the sessions of 1868 and 1869. He was counsel for the Middlesex Horse Railroad Com- pany until it was merged in the West End - a position he held for over twenty years. He was also counsel for the city of Boston in the numerous damage cases growing out of taking of Sudbury River by the water board. He is an active member of the Old South Church. Mr. 'Child has been twice married, first, to Miss Helen A. Barnes, deceased, and has three children, Helen L., Catherine B., and Myra L. Child. His present wife was Mrs. Ada M. Wilson, of Chelsea.
CHURCH, ADALINE BARNARD, M.D., was born in Chelsea, Mass., Sept. 19, 1846. She attended Boston schools, and later received private instruc- tion in literature, French, and German. She gradu- ated fiom the Boston University School of Medicine in 1879, and was subsequently connected with the college as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. She went abroad soon after for special work, diseases of women, and studied about a year and a half. On her return she was appointed assistant in gynæ- cology in the Boston University Medical School. She has made several subsequent visits to the Old World for special work, studying in London, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, and Vienna. She is now (1892) professor of gynæcology in the medical school, which position she has held five years. Dr. Church is connected with the Boston Homeopathic Dis- pensary ; is physician to the School of Liberal Arts ; is a member of the Boston Homeopathic Medica Society, of which she has been vice-president ; the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society ; the American Institute of Homeopathy ; the Society for the University Education of Women (a direc- tor) ; and the Alumni of the Boston University School of Medicine (for some time its vice-presi- dent). She is now practising in Boston and Win- chester. She was married in 1866, to Dr. B. T. Church, of Winchester.
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CHURCHILL, GARDNER ASAPH, son of Asaph and Mary Buckminster (Brewer) Churchill, was born in Dorchester, Mass., May 26, 1839. He was edu- cated in the Dorchester public schools. In early youth he followed the sea, part of the time in the East India trade. He was in the United States
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Navy during the Civil War, acting ensign from 1862 to 1865, navigating officer of United States ship " Release," United States steamer " Memphis," South Atlantic squadron, and United States gunboat " Shawmut," North Atlantic squadron. He was one of the founders of the Rockwell & Churchill press, established in 1866 by Messrs. Horace T. Rockwell, A. P. Rollins, and himself, under the firm name of Rockwell & Rollins. Upon the death of Mr. Rol- lins in 1869, the firm name became Rockwell & Churchill, and has so continued to the present time. The printing-house was first established at No. 122 Washington street, at the corner of Water. After the great fire of 1872 removal was made to the Amory Building, No. 39 Arch street, and now this building is occupied, and also the Sears Building, No. 41 Arch street, corner of Hawley place. Mr. Churchill has served two terms in the lower house of the Legislature (1875-6), the first year rep- resenting the Dorchester and Hyde Park district, and the second, Dorchester, Ward 16, of Boston. He was the author of the resolve passed by the Legislature of 1875 providing for the publication of
the records of officers, sailors, and marines who served during the War of the Rebellion and were credited to Massachusetts ; such record having been entirely omitted from "The Record of Massachu- setts Volunteers " published by the State in 1868. During the years 1877, 1878, and 1879 he was a trustee of Danvers Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; of the G.A.R., commander of Post 68, Ebenezer Stone, of Dorchester, in 1872, and junior vice-commander, Department of Massachusetts, in 1873 ; of Union Lodge Free and Accepted Mason, of Dorchester ; and of the Boston Commandery of Knights Templar. He is prominent in printers' or- ganizations, being a member of the Master Printers' Club and an honorary member of the Franklin Typographical Society of Boston ; and is a member also of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Boston Athletic Association. Mr. Churchill was married April 16, 1862, in Wren- tham, Mass., to Miss Ellen Brastow Barrett, of that town ; they have three children : Mary Brewer, Asaph, and Ellen- Barrett Churchill. Their home is in the Dorchester district.
CLAPP, CHARLES MARTIN, son of Martin G. and Mary Ann (Gillett) Clapp, was born in Watertown, N.Y., July 5, 1834. He is a descendant of Edward Clapp, who came from Devonshire, Eng., and landed at Dorchester in 1633. He was educated in the common schools and at Monson Academy. He began business life in a country store at South Deerfield in 1854. Not long after he came to Boston, and here, in 1860, became a rubber mer- chant. His firm since 1872 has been C. M. Clapp & Co., and it owns and operates the " .Etna Rubber Mills," of which Mr. Clapp is president and treasurer. Mr. Clapp is also interested in other rubber companies, and he is a director of the Atlas National Bank, the Boston Lead Manufacturing Company, and the E. Howard Watch and Clock Company, and trustee of the Home Savings Bank. He is a member of the Commercial Club, and its treasurer ; has for many years been a member of the standing committee of the Church of the Unity ; and is a trustee of Forest Hills Cemetery. In 1865 he was appointed United States government inspector of rubber blankets in the quartermaster's department, with headquarters at Cincinnati, O., and served until contracts for blankets were com- pleted. Mr. Clapp was married Aug. 25, 1857, to Miss Georgiania Derby ; they have two children : G. I. and H. E. Clapp.
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CLAPP, DWIGHT M., D.M.D., was born in South- ampton, Mass., June 5, 1846. He was educated in the local schools and in Westfield Academy. When a young man he went to London, Eng., and associated himself with Dr. Charles R. Coffin, a prominent dentist there ; and in 1869-70 he was with Dr. H. W. Mason in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his degree of D.M.D. from the Harvard Dental School in 1882, and the same year was appointed instructor of operative dentistry in that institution. That position he held until 1883, when he resigned ; in 1890 he was appointed clinical lect- urer. Dr. Clapp is a member of various dental socie- ties, and is an ex-president of the Massachusetts Dental Society. He was married in May, 1872, to Miss Clara J., daughter of Henry Simonds, of Lynn.
CLAPP, HERBERT CODMAN, M.D., son of John Codman and Lucy A. Clapp, was born in Boston Jan. 31, 1846. He was fitted for college in the Roxbury Latin School, from which he graduated in 1863. Four years later he graduated from Har- vard College, and in 1870 from the Harvard Medi- cal School. Having had his attention called to the subject of homœopathy, he began to investigate it theoretically and practically under the instruction of the late Dr. Samuel Gregg, who has been hon- ored as the pioneer and father of homoeopathy in New England. Adopting it as his method, he became associated with Dr. Gregg in practice, which continued until the latter's death. Then he removed to the South End, where he now re- sides. Dr. Clapp is professor of diseases of the chest in the Boston University School of Medicine, physician to the heart and lung department of the college branch of the Homoeopathic Medical Dispen- sary, of which he is one of the trustees, physician to the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, and treas- urer of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society. He was formerly secretary and afterwards president of the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society. He has written a book on "Ausculta- tion and Percussion," for students and physicians, which was published by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., and of which already nine editions have been issued ; another entitled "Is Consumption Con- tagious? " published by Otis Clapp & Son ; treatises on " Pulmonary Phthisis," " Physical Diagnosis," and " Tuberculosis," in Arndt's "System of Medicine," published by .F. E. Boericke, of Philadelphia ; and numerous articles in magazine literature. He was for three years the editor of the " New England Medical Gazette." Dr. Clapp pays special atten- tion to diseases of the lungs and heart.
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