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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



ington. Besides writing books on history and 

 political economy, he edited the "Massachu- 

 setts State Record" from 1847 till 1857, the 

 writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.D., and, to 

 a large extent, the " Annals of Phrenology." 

 He wrote a biography of Dr. J. F. Gall, and 

 edited his works, translated from the French, 

 and a biography of Dr. J. G. Spurzheim, which 

 was prefixed to that scholar's work on physi- 

 ognomy. In the last part of his life he was 

 engaged in compiling " A History of Democ- 

 racy," which he had projected many years 

 before. In 1877 the degree of LL. D. was con- 

 ferred upon him by Washington and Lee Uni- 

 versity, of Virginia. 



Carpenter, Philo, an American pioneer, born 

 in Savoy, Mass., in 1805 ; died in Chicago, 

 111., Aug. 7, 1886. In 1828 he removed to 

 Troy, N. Y., where he learned the drug busi- 

 ness. Later he emigrated to the West, and 

 finally made his way to the present city of 

 Chicago, reaching the settlement in a canoe, 

 which was paddled around the head of the 

 lake by two Indians. He landed near where 

 the Douglas monument now stands, and was 

 conducted to Fort Dearborn, where he found 

 Joel Ellis living in a log cabin. He secured 

 a similar structure on Lake Street, near the 

 river, and opened the first drug-store in Chi- 

 cago. By adding general merchandise to his 

 stock of drugs, he conducted a thriving busi- 

 ness, from which he retired in 1842, to give 

 his whole attention to real-estate investments. 

 The development of the city enabled him to 

 amass a handsome fortune. He was always 

 an earnest advocate of education, temperance, 

 religion, and universal liberty, writing and cir- 

 culating the first total - abstinence pledge in 

 Chicago in 1832, being an early opponent of 

 slavery, and a close friend of John Brown, 

 and serving as a member of the Board of 

 Education. He retired from the latter in 1865, 

 and was honored by having one of the new 

 school-houses named for him. 



Chaffee, Jerome B., an American capitalist, 

 born in Niagara County, N. Y., April 17, 

 1825; died in Salem Centre, N. Y., March 

 9, 1886. He received an academic education, 

 and in 1846 removed to Adrian, Mich., subse- 

 quently settling in St. Joseph, Mo., and Elm- 

 wood, Kans., and conducting a banking and 

 real-estate business in both places. In 1860 

 he went to Colorado, establishing himself in 

 Gilpin County as a banker, and, shortly after- 

 ward, as a mining capitalist. He became a 

 member of the Territorial Legislature in 1861, 

 was one of the founders of the city of Den- 

 ver, and by 1865 it was estimated that he 

 was an owner in 100 different gold and sil- 

 ver mines. He was the largest owner in the 

 "Bobtail Mine," which, for some time, netted 

 $400,000 a year. In 1865 he became President 

 of the First National Bank in Denver, and the 

 same year, under a popular belief that the Ter- 

 ritory was about to be admitted into the Union 

 of States, he was elected as one of the proposed 



United States Senators. The Territory not be- 

 ing then admitted, he was elected as its dele- 

 gate in Congress, and served in that capacity 

 six years. During this period he labored ear- 

 nestly to secure the admission of the Territory, 

 and when, in 1876, his efforts were successful, 

 he became one of the first Senators, entering 

 the Senate, Dec. 4, 1876, and serving as a 

 member of the committees on Public Lands, 

 on Territories, and on Mines and Mining, and 

 as chairman of the Select Committee to Ex- 

 amine the Several Branches of the Civil Ser- 

 vice. After the expiration of his term he 

 became a leading member of the Republican 

 party, and had an influential part in the Na- 

 tional Conventions of 1878, 1880, and 1884, 

 being chairman of the National Republican 

 Committee in the latter year. He was one of 

 Gen. Grant's most loyal supporters, and his 

 daughter married U. S. Grant, Jr., in 1881. 



Chapin, Dorcas, an American philanthropist, 

 born in 1801 ; died in Springfield, Mass., Nov. 

 14, 1886. She was the widow of Chester W. 

 Chapin, and, like her husband, was descended 

 from one of the founders of the city of Boston. 

 The family has been prominently identified with 

 the development of Massachusetts. Among her 

 gifts were $10,000 to the City Library of 

 Springfield, $3,000 to the Home for the Friend- 

 less, $20,000 to the Cemetery Association for 

 a memorial chapel, $11,000 for a Unitarian 

 parsonage, and $23,000 to Amherst College. 



Chaplin, Jeremiah, an American author, born 

 in Danvers, Mass., in 1813; died in New 

 Utrecht, N. Y., March 5, 1886. He was a son 

 of Dr. Jeremiah Chaplin, first President of 

 Waterville College. The son was graduated 

 at Waterville in 1833, held pastorates in Ban- 

 gor, Me., and Newton Centre, Mass., and then 

 removed to Boston, where he engaged in lit- 

 erature. His wife, Jane Dunbar, who died 

 two years before him, wrote numerous suc- 

 cessful Sunday-school stories. Mr. Chaplin's 

 most valuable work is a "Life of Henry Dun- 

 ster," first President of Harvard College, which 

 has been highly praised (Boston, 1872) and his 

 other publications include "The Memorial 

 Hour" (1864), "Riches of Bunyan"; "The 

 Hand of Jesus " (1869), and lives of Rev. Dun- 

 can Dunbar (his father-in-law), Charles Sum- 

 ner, Benjamin Franklin, and Galen. 



Chase, Pliny Earle, an American scientist, 

 born in Worcester, Mass., Aug. 18, 1820; died 

 in Haverford, Pa., Dec. 17, 1886. He was 

 graduated at Harvard in 1839, and settled in 

 Philadelphia, where for many years he was 

 engaged in teaching. Later he turned his 

 attention to mercantile pursuits, and devoted 

 his leisure to scientific researches. In 1871 

 he became Professor of Physics, and subse- 

 quently of Languages, in Haverford College, 

 where, at the time of his death, he was acting 

 president. His investigations include : 1. The 

 confirmation of Faraday's conjecture that grav- 

 ity must be capable of an experimental rela- 

 tion to electricity, magnetism, and the other 



