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park commissioner, water commissioner, and harbor and wharf commissioner, appointed by the mayor, and the president of the Board of Public Improvements elected by the peo- ple. The tax rate for municipal purposes is not to exceed one per cent in the old limits, with such additional rate for the city indebt- edness as may be required; and in the new limits not to exceed four-tenths of one per cent for municipal purposes, and one-tenth for interest on the city indebtedness.
D. M. GRISSOM.
Chase, Edward, banker and financier, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, March 5, 1824, and died in St. Louis, March 1, 1897. Until he was fourteen years of age he at- tended the public schools of Massachusetts, and then obtained employment in a bank at Fall River, his father's death having made it necessary for him to contribute to the sup- port of the family. While connected with this bank he became intimately acquainted with Mr. Dodge, a prominent New York banker of that day, and, in 1847, he was invited to come to St. Louis and take charge of a branch of the New York banking house of Clark, Dodge & Co., which it was proposed to establish in that city. This proposition was accepted, and Mr. Chase, coming to that city the same year, established and took charge of what afterward became the bank- ing house of E. W. Clark & Bro., located at the corner of Main and Olive Streets. When the Messrs. Clark suspended their Western connections, Mr. Chase engaged in the insur- ance business, and his time was thus occupied until 1871, when he was made manager of the St. Louis Clearing House. This position he held until his death, twenty-six years later. His relaxation from business cares was found largely in the indulgence of his love of music, and for several years he had charge of the choir of the Church of the Messiah, of which his warm friend, the late Rev. Dr. Eliot, was then pastor. Mr. Chase married Miss Lydia W. Alden, of Fall River, Massachusetts, a de- scendant of the Puritan, John Allen, who has been immortalized in Longfellow's verse.
Chase, Henry Seymour, one of the pioneer practitioners of dentistry in St. Louis, was born March 6, 1820, in Rockingham, Vermont, and died in St. Louis, January II. 1898. He received his scholastic training in
Chester Academy and then studied medicine, receiving his doctor's degree from the Medi- cal College at Woodstock, Vermont. He grad- uated later from a school of dentistry and a homeopathic school of medicine. After prac- ticing dentistry some years in Woodstock he came west and established himself in the practice of his profession, first at Independ- ence, Iowa, in 1857. In 1862 he removed to Iowa City, and remained there until 1867, when he responded to repeated solicitations to become a lecturer in the Dental College of St. Louis, and removed to that city. He filled a chair in the Western College of Dental Sur- gery of St. Louis for several years, and, at different times, was editor also of the Mis- souri Dental Journal and the St. Louis Den- tal Quarterly.
Chastain, Mills Tandy, physician and surgeon, is descended from two of the dis- tinguished families of Virginia and Kentucky. The original ancestors of the Chastains were French Huguenots, who came to Virginia soon after the proclamation of the Edict of Nantes. Both his paternal and maternal an- cestors fought in the Continental Army dur- ing the Revolutionary War. Roger Q. Mills, the noted Texan, is a member of the family and a cousin of the subject of this sketch. Many members of the family in later genera- tions have been successful medical practi- tioners. Dr. Chastain was born near Russell- ville, Logan County, Kentucky, May 13, 1840, son of Willis Wilson and Mary E. (Tandy) Chastain. His father was a son of William Chastain, a native of Virginia. His mother was a daughter of Mills Tandy, a na- tive of Virginia, of noble Irish ancestry. W. WV. Chastain moved to Missouri in 1848, set- tled on a farm in Benton County and lived there until 1864, when he removed to Pettis County, where his death occurred in 1868. His son, Dr. M. T. Chastain, was a child of eight years when the family removed to Mis- souri. After a preparatory course in the com- mon schools of Benton County, he returned to Kentucky in 1857, and devoted two years to study in the Locust Grove Academy. Upon his return home he began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. W. S. Holland, and in 1860-I took his first course of lectures at Keokuk, Iowa. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, and in April, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of Mis-
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souri Militia (Cavalry), under Colonel John F. Philips, and fought for the preservation of the Union until the end of the conflict. In 1863 he was made assistant surgeon of his regiment. He was mustered out of service in St. Louis in March, 1865. While he was serving as hospital steward in the convales- cent hospital at Springfield, Missouri. in Jan- uary, 1863, he was compelled to abandon his duties temporarily by reason of illness. Upon his return the inmates of the hospital, 106 in number, prepared a memorial complimenting him upon the efficient manner in which he had discharged the duties of his office and welcoming him back to his labors. Among other things, they said : "We know your de- votedness to the welfare of the institution ; your vigilant and watchful care over each and every member of it ; your efforts in our behalf during the absence of any surgeon have been untiring. You have seemed to take great de- light in ameliorating our condition and sup- plying our wants. Many of us you rallied on the morning of the memorable 8th, shoul- dered your musket and led us on the battle- field. We there found you, as we well know you to be in the sick room, an earnest soldier in the true and practical sense of the term. Your zeal and devotion to your bleeding country have been alike demonstrated in the sick room and on the field of carnage." After the war had ended, Dr. Chastain entered the medical department of the University of New York, which granted him his degree in 1866. He had practiced for a time before the com- pletion of his studies at Georgetown, where he held the post of examining surgeon for the militia of the State. After graduation he lo- cated in Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, where he has since been engaged in the prac- tice of his professsion continuously for thirty- five years. During the latter part of the ad- ministration of President Harrison he served on the local board of pension examiners, and now holds a similar position through ap- pointment by President Mckinley. He is a charter member of the Saline County and District Medical Societies, and has been pres- ident of the first named society. He is also identified with the State Medical Society. He has been a Master Mason since 1866, and is connected with the Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Royal Tribe of Joseph. For nearly thirty years he was an elder in the Christian Church of Mar-
shall, of which he was one of the founders. For many years he has been prominently identified with the Republican party, though originally he was a Democrat. As the nom- inee of the latter party he was elected mayor of Marshall in 1876. From 1890 to 1900 he was chairman of the Saline County Repub- lican Committee. In 1894 he was offered the Republican nomination for Congress, but de- clined, and on that occasion the Republican candidate was elected, although the district is overwhelmingly Democratic normally. In Igoo he was nominated by acclamation as the Republican candidate for State Senator from the Fifteenth District. Dr. Chastain was married, May 1. 1865. to Maria Louisa San- didge, daughter of Captain John W. San- didge, of Saline County. She died February 20, 1867, leaving no children. In October, 1870, he married Fratie Holland, daughter of Dr. W. S. Holland, of Marshall, who died August 20, 1893, leaving two children, Ettie and Willis A. Chastain. Dr. Chastain's pro- fessional career has been very successful, and he ranks high both as a physician and a use- ful and high-minded citizen.
Chautauqua Literary and Scien- tific Association. - A circle of this famous national association was organized in St. Louis in 1883, the first year of the national organization. In the year following, the Vincent Circle of Pilgrim Congregational Church was formed under the presidency of Miss Helen E. Peabody, who retained that office for seven years. She was succeeded by Professor Edward Jackson, who had charge of the circle for three years. After a rest of two years, a new circle was formed in 1896, called the Pilgrim Circle, which was con- tinued the following years. There have been from time to time over twenty-five circles in St. Louis, most of them connected with churches, but welcoming anyone to member- ship. The circles of the Pilgrim Congrega- tional Church have, however, maintained the strongest and most sustained interest, contin- ning year after year, with an average attend- ance of about forty members, with a large number of visitors, the meetings being held in the church parlors. The influence has been marked in the development of the young people of that large congregation, and much of its success is due to the devoted tal- ents and energies of Miss Peabody. In 1891
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a Chautauqua "University Extension" course of lectures was given at the Pilgrim Church. MARTHA S. KAYSER.
Chauvenet, William, eminent math- ematician and educator, was born May 24, 1820, at Milford, Pennsylvania, and died in St. Paul, Minnesota, December 13, 1870. He was fitted for college in the schools of Phila- delphia, and was graduated from Yale in the class of 1840. Soon after graduation from college he became assistant of Professor Alexander B. Bache and aided him in his meteorological observation at Girard Col- lege, Philadelphia, until early in the year 1841, when he was appointed mathematical professor in the United States Navy. For some months thereafter hie served on the United States steamer "Mississippi," and was then assigned to the chair of mathematics at the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia. He was one of the chief workers in the movement that led to the establishment of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and was a member of the first faculty of that institu- tion, filling the chair of mathematics and as- tronomy.
In 1855 he was offered the professorship of mathematics, and in 1859 that of astronomy and natural philosophy at Yale College, but both these proffered honors were declined. In the year last named, believing that he would find a broad sphere of usefulness in St. Louis, he accepted the chair of mathematics in Washington University of that city. Here he at once gained the esteem and confidence of those with whom he was associated, and in 1862 he was chosen chancellor of the uni- versity. His health failed measurably in 1864, and he spent several months thereafter in Wisconsin and Minnesota, resuming his collegiate duties in 1865. The permanent impairment of his health compelled him to resign his professorship and the chancellor- ship of the university in 1869, and the remain- ing months of his life were spent in travel, which, however, failed to restore him to health. As a scientist he was widely known, both in this country and abroad, and he was a member of many scientific societies and as- sociations. In 1859 he was general secretary of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, with which he had been connected since its first meeting, and he was also a member of the National Academy
of Sciences, and at the time of his death was its vice president. Besides making numerous contributions to "The American Journal of Science," "The Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science," "Gould's Astronomical Journal," and "The Mathematical Monthly," he was the author of the following works : "Binomial Theorem and Logarithms for the Use of Midshipmen at the Naval School," published in 1843; "Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonom- etry," published in 1850; "Manual of Spher- ical and Practical Astronomy," published in 1863; and "Treatise on Elementary Geom- etry," published in 1870.
Chauvin Land Claim .- This land claim became famous by reason of the long continued litigation and the appeals to Con- gress which grew out of it, and the great value which the realty involved came to have before the cloud was finally removed from the titles thereto. The claim originated in 1785, when the government of Spain granted to Madame Angelica Chauvin a tract of land forty by forty arpens in area, bounded by land "granted to one Louis Robert, on one side, and the king's domain lengthwise of the River Des Peres." This land-now practi- cally in the heart of the city-or rather, the concession above described, was sold by the grantee to one Jean F. Perry, and after the cession of Louisiana to the United States Perry asked that his title might be confirmed. The local board of land commissioners, charged with the responsibility of examining and passing upon these land grant claims, finally confirmed the grant and ordered it surveyed in 1811. In 1812 Perry died, and apparently no claim was made to the conces- sion on behalf of his heirs or assigns until twenty years later. Then the tract was sur- veyed and an effort was made to get it pat- ented by Congress, but the effort failed. In the meantime other claimants had come into possession of the land, who resisted the at- tempts of the claimants under the Chauvin grant to occupy it, on the ground that Madame Chauvin had forfeited her grant, a year after its issuance, by failing to comply with its conditions. Litigation extending over many years followed, and men eminent in public life as well as at the bar became identified with different phases of the con- troversy. Land commissioners, courts, the
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Department of the Interior and Congress re- viewed the case and a final adjustment was not reached and the cloud removed from the title to this property until more than fifty years after the cession of Louisiana to the United States, and nearly three-quarters of a century after the concession to Madame Chauvin. The title of the occupants was ulti- mately confirmed to them by act of Congress, and the claimants abandoned their conten- tion.
Cheltenham .- A suburban district of St. Louis, chiefly noted for its manufactures of fire clay. It was the site of the Icarian set- tlement founded in 1857 and broken up in 1864. Its name originated with William Wibble, who built there a country home and named it "Cheltenham." after the famous watering place in Gloucestershire, England. When the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com- pany established a station near Mr. Wibble's place, the station was named Cheltenham, and thus the name attached itself to the ad- jacent territory.
Chenie, Antoine, was born at Pointe Claire, Canada, April 14, 1768, and died in St. Louis, May 26, 1842. At an early age he went into the service of the Canadian Fur Company and was stationed at Niagara Falls. At the age of twenty-seven he came to St. Louis and engaged in the service of a Mis- souri River fur trader as clerk. He was mar- ried, October 26, 1804. to Marie Therese Papin, daughter of Jos. M. Papin, one of the first settlers, and ancestor of the large and honorable family of that name. His resi- dence was a large stone house on the south half of the block on the north side of Market Street, between Main and Second Streets, the house standing on the southeast corner, with the Chenie bakehouse in the rear, on Market Street. Mr. Chenie lived there for many years and then moved into the brick dwelling which he built on Third Street, below Pluni, where he died. He left six children-Louise, who married Bernard Pratte, Jr. : Leon, who married Julia De Mun; Amanda, who be- came the wife of Dr. Auguste Masure ; Atalie, who became the wife of Joseph S. Pease ; Julius, who married Josephine Lane, and Julia, who became the wife of Henry Gour- des, of France.
Chenoweth Murder and Lynching. September 12, 1883, Dr. Albert W. Cheno- weth was brutally murdered by Garland A. Mann, a saloonkeeper, at Pineville, in Me- Donald County. Mr. Chenoweth was a highly respected resident of that place, a member of the Methodist Church, and an earnest advocate of temperance. Ilis taking- off was generally ascribed to his earnest op- position to dramshops. On the finding of the coroner's jury Mann was arrested, in- dicted and brought to trial in McDonald County in April. 1884, when the jury dis- agreed. In August he was tried a second time, convicted, and sentenced to be hung October 17th. On appeal to the Supreme Court the case was remanded to Newton County for retrial, and the accused was trans- ferred to the jail at Neoslio. In May, 1885, the case was called in the Newton County Circuit Court, and a continuance moved and denied, whereupon trial was held and the jury was discharged upon reporting no hope of agreement. August 3d the fourth trial was begun. About I o'clock on the morning of August 6th, ten or twelve men went to the jail and demanded the keys. The guards de- nied having them in possession, and the doors were battered down. Several pistol shots and two loads from a shotgun were fired into the cell occupied by Mann, and he fell dead. It was found that he had received six wounds, any one of which was mortal. During this occurrence the jail was surrounded by nearly two hundred men, all apparently in sympathy with the executioners. Their identity re- mained undiscovered, and no prosecutions followed.
Cherry Grove .- See "Downing."
Cherry Valley .- A town in Crawford County, six miles south of Steelville, founded by the Meramec Iron Company. In 1898, when the furnaces were closed, it had a popu- lation of about 300. A spur, two miles in length, of the Salem branch of the. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, ran to the fur- naces. This has been torn up, and Cherry Valley, which now has a population of about fifty, is a town of the past.
Chess Club, St. Louis. - About the year 1872 a number of chess players banded
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together and formed the nucleus for the St. Louis Chess Club. They first met in a room especially devoted to the game, which was connected with the reading room of the Mer- cantile Library. Among them were Dr. C. D. N. Campbell, R. R. Hutchinson, J. Wiebe Nelson, E. K. Symonds, Charles A. McNair, J. C. Bird, C. D. Moody, A. Miltenberger, H. M. Dunphee, Frank P. Merrill, C. I. Dough- erty, G. M. D. Harris, Robert Geggie, C. W. G. Watts, M. Alexander, John O. Holman and John J. Broderick. The first president was M. Alexander, who died shortly after his election. After the tearing down of the Mer- cantile Library building the club moved to the northeast corner of Sixth and Pine: thence to Pope's Theater building ; thence to the southeast corner of Eighth and Olive, and finally to the Emilie Building, at the south- west corner of Ninth and Olive, where it now occupies commodious quarters on the second floor. The club has been a great promoter of the game in the West. It entertained such masters as George H. Mckenzie, William Steinitz, J. H. Zukertort, Emanuel Lasker, F. J. Lee, S. Lipschutz, C. Mochle, W. H. K. Pollock, and others of world-wide fame. It held a United States Chess Association tour- nament, in which seven players competed, on February 9, 1890, the first prize having been won by J. W. Showalter, of Kentucky. Un- der its auspices a portion of the famous Steinitz-Zukertort match was played in the year 1886, at the Harmonie Club, Eighteenth and Olive Streets. It has encouraged matches, notably those between Max Judd and George H. Mckenzie, of New York; Judd and A. B. Hodges, of Tennessee, and Judd and J. W. Showalter, of Kentucky. This organization has developed seven prob- lemists of note, namely : A. H. Robbins, au- thor of "A Book on Problems"; Ben S. Wash, S. M. Joseph, William F. Woerner, Rudolph Koerper, William Brown and Ben R. Foster, anthor of "Chancellor Chess." Among the strong players that are and have been members of the club are the veterans, Max Judd, the champion of the West ; Wil- liam Haller, S. A. Spencer, A. H. Robbins, Dr. Otto Fick, L. Eedemann, J. O. Holman, Ben R. Foster, J. Ed. Nelson, R. Koerper, J. C. Bird, R. R. Hutchinson, L. Haller, A. F. Schneider, Hugo Rinkel and John A. Gal- braith. Besides these there are some younger players who are destined to make their mark
in the chess world, namely: T. Lyons, Ed. Schrader, P. V. Janis and George H. Wol- brecht. Many prominent business and pro- fessional citizens have identified themselves with the St. Louis Chess Club: Colonel Chester H. Krum, Colonel T. T. Gantt, Way- man C. McCreery, Louis Chauvenet, Albert Blair, Judge J. A. Harrison, E. S. Rowse, William Duncan, Edward Martin, Dr. C. G. Rohlfing, T. Rabuske, Wallace Delafield, B. H. Colby, Isaac H. Knox, Professor F. C. Woodruff, Dr. J. M. Newell, Charles Belcher and B. D. Kribben. The officers of the club in 1898 were: President, Max Judd; first vice president, S. R. Burgess; second vice president, F. Ogden ; governing committee, George H. Wolbrecht, C. A. McNair, Ben R. Foster, F. N. Rounds, S. Bienenstock, and James Milburn ; secretary and treasurer, Ben R. Foster. It holds informal meetings every afternoon and evening, and visitors are al- ways welcome at its rooms.
Chester, V. L., physician, was born March 4. 1843, at Warsaw, Indiana. His parents were Joseph and Jane (Robinson) Chester, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Ohio. They were married in Ohio and removed to Indiana, where they made their home upon a farm. Of their chil- dren, three sons served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Simpson J. Chester was a member of the Thirtieth Regiment lowa Infantry, and Finley Chester, of the Fourth Regiment Iowa Cavalry. Both were wounded, the former being shot through the lungs. Dr. Chester was reared upon the home farm, and attended a country school until October 22, 1861, when he enlisted in Company M of the Fourth Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, constituting a portion of Winslow's famous cavalry brigade. His service covered a period of three years and four months, dur- ing which time he participated in all the rapid movements in Tennessee and Mississippi, culminating in the capture of Vicksburg. A stirring incident, prior to the latter event, was the desperate battle at Black River Bridge. He was also engaged in the actions at Guntown, Mississippi; Chattanooga, Ten- nessee, and Arkansas Post, Arkansas, and in numerous expeditions through Mississippi and Alabama. In 1872 he began reading medicine with Dr. F. M. Everett, at Corydon, Iowa, and was graduated from the College of
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Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, lowa, in 1880. For four years he was engaged in practice at Corydon, Iowa, removing thence to Garden Grove, Iowa, where he remained for ten years. He was a member of the School Board during the greater part of his residence at Garden Grove. For seven years following he was located at Great Bend. Kan- sas, engaged in practice, and serving as pro- fessor of physiology in the Great Bend Col- lege and Fitting School. In 1894 he removed to Carthage, Missouri, and entered upon a general practice in association with Dr. E. F. Gould, which is successfully continued to the present time. While in no manner neglecting his professional duties, he devotes a share of his attention to mining interests, in the pro- ductive Buff Cochin Mines, in the Carterville district. He is a Republican in politics, and a Methodist in religion. For many years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, and, while a resident of Iowa, occupied all the chairs in the subordinate lodge. He was married, March 5. 1865, to Miss Clara Green, who died October 5, 1871, leaving a daughter. Verda V., now the wife of the Rev. F. W. Otto, of Osawatomie, Kansas, and a son, Ottus S., now a practicing physician at Alma, Kansas. September 27, 1873. Dr. Chester was married to Miss Olive J. Green, a sister of his former wife.
Chew, Thomas J., Jr., was born April 8, 1838, in Columbus, Ohio. His father, An- thony S. Chew, was a native of Connecticut, a graduate of Yale College and a prominent attorney. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the great leader of the Southern cause, was a ma- ternal relative of the family, and an ancestor was Attorney General for the American Col- onies during British rule. The genealogy of the Chew family, and families with which its members intermarried, evidences a distin- guished line of ancestry. Anthony S. Chew removed to Ohio in 1836 and located in Cin- cinnati, where he entered into a law partner- ship with Thomas Corwin, noted as states- man and orator. The style of the firm was Corwin & Chew. The mother of the subject of this sketch was Delia Adams, of Colum- bus, Ohio. Her father, and her uncle. Dr. Goodell, were men of large means and high .character. Thomas J. Chew was given a lib- eral education in Heron's Seminary and Brooks' Preparatory Classical School, both
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