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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CASTRO CLARK.) 



ginia Eailroad in December, 1862 ; defeated the Con- 

 federates at Holstein, Jonesville, Button's Hill, and 

 Montville, in May and June, 1863 ; commanded the 

 cavalry division of the 23d Army Corps, and led the 

 advance when East Tennessee was permanently oc- 

 cupied in August, 1863 ; took part in the siege and 

 battle of Knoxville in December following; com- 

 manded a division and the left wing of the army at 

 the battle of Kinston, N. C., March 10, 1865 ; and 

 drove the Confederates from Goldsboro. After leav- 

 ing the army he returned to duty in the navy. He 

 was commissioned commander June 25, 1865 ; was 

 commandant of the United States Naval Academy in 

 1869-'72 ; promoted captain 1870 ; served as a member 

 of the Light-house Board in 1867-'80; promoted 

 commodore Nov. 13, 1878; retired Aug. 6, 1881 ; and 

 promoted rear-admiral on the retired list May 16, 

 1882. He had since lived in "Washington. 



Castro, Manuel, military officer, born in Castroville, 

 Cal., in 1801; died there, May 2,1891. Froinearly 

 life he was one of the most conspicuous figures in the 

 struggles between the Americans and the Mexicans 

 for the possession of California, and remained till 

 death in bitter enmity against Americans and Ameri- 

 can institutions. In 1844 he led the revolt against 

 Micheltorena, and for his services was given a largo 

 tract of land and made prefect of Monterey, while a 

 brother, Juan Castro, was appointed military com- 

 mandant there. Later, when John C. Fremont, with 

 his company of frontiersmen, was approaching 

 Monterey, Gen. Castro ordered the explorer to leave 

 the country, and sent his brother with an armed 

 force against him. Juan entrenched himself in the 

 Gabilan mountains, but fled on Fremont's advance. 

 Castro then joined the Flores revolt at Los Angeles, 

 fled into Mexico after Com. Stockton's victory over 

 the Mexicans, held the office of Governor of Lower 

 California for a short time, and then returned to his 

 old home. He compiled his reminiscences for Hubert 

 Howe Bancroft to use in his historical work, and 

 made his last appearance in public in the parade on 

 California "Admission Day," in September, 1890. 



Chapman, Frederick Angnstus, painter, born in Old 

 Saybrook, Conn., April 18, 1818 ; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Jan 26, 1891. After vainly attempting to be- 

 come interested in mercantile business in Boston, 

 he removed to New York and studied painting with 

 Prof. S. F. B. Morse. About 1850 he settled in 

 Brooklyn, where he became a founder and the first 

 President of the Brooklyn Art Association, and for a 

 time was engaged in stained-glass decorating. His 

 special works include the stained-glass windows in 

 Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, and the oil-paintings 

 of " The Perils of our Forefathers," which was en- 

 graved by John C. MacRae ; " The Day we Cele- 

 brate"; " Eaising the Liberty Pole," also engraved: 

 " The Receding Race," " Discovery of the Hudson," 

 both of which were chromo-lithographcd by Colton 

 and " The Battle of Chancellorsville." He contributed 

 many paintings to the exhibitions of the Brooklyn 

 Art Association, and during the past fifteen years had 

 applied himself chiefly to illustrating work. 



Chapman, Henry, jurist, born in Newton, Pa., Feb. 4, 

 1804; died near Doylestown, Pa., April 11, 1891. He 

 was elected a State Senator in 1843, and two years 

 afterward was appointed by Gov. Shunk judge of the 

 Chester-Delaware Judicial District, where he served 

 four years. In 1856 he was elected to Congress, 

 where he served one term, and was on the Committee 

 on the Judiciary. In 1861 he was elected judge of the 

 Bucks County Court, and in 1871 he retired. 



Ohiokering, Charles Frank, manufacturer, born in 

 Boston, Mass., Jan. 20, 1827; died in New York city, 

 March 22, 1891. He was a son of Jonas Chickering, 

 founder of the well-known piano manufacturing 

 house, received a common-school education, and when 

 fifteen years old entered his father's factory and 

 began learning the details of the work. In 1844 he 

 went to Inclia^for a period of recreation, taking with 

 him one of his father's instruments, and thus intro- 

 duced the modern* piano into that country. In 1851 



he superintended his father's exhibit in the World's 

 Fair, London : and in 1853, on the death of his father, 

 became associated with his brothers, Thomas E. and 

 George H., in conducting the business. He assumed 

 the management of the manufacturing department, 

 made manv^ improvements in the instrument, repre- 

 sented the firm at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 

 1867, and received the cross andribbon of the Legion of 

 Honor, became head of the firm on the death of his 

 brother Thomas in 1871, and erected Chickering Hall 

 in 1875. Mr. Chickering organized the first musical 

 festival held in the United States, and was President 

 of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. Many 

 years before his death, which occurred in December, 

 1885, James Henry Paine, the miser, placed in Mr. 

 Chickering's hands for safe keeping, and without a 

 receipt or other acknowledgment, a brown-paper 

 package. During the contest over Paine's estate Mr. 

 Chickering recalled the incident, took the package 

 from his safe, and, tightly rolled in a green bandana 

 handkerchief, found $400,000 of the miser's accumu- 

 lations, which he at once turned into the estate. 



Chiloott, George Miles, lawyer, born in Huntingdon 

 County, Pa., Jan. 2, 1828 ; died in St. Louis, Mo., 

 March 6, 1891. He accompanied his parents to Jef- 

 ferson County, Iowa, in 1844 ; studied medicine and 

 taught school till 1850 ; and entered political life by 

 election to the office of sheriff in 1853. Three years 

 afterward he removed to Burt County, Neb., and the 

 same year was elected to the Territorial Legislature as 

 a Republican. In 1859 he settled in Colorado ; in 

 1861 and 1862 was elected to the Legislature ; in 1863 

 was admitted to the bar and appointed register of the 

 United States Land Office for Colorado ; in 1865 was 

 elected to Congress under a State organization, which 

 was not recognized by the Federal Government ; and 

 in 1866 was elected delegate to Congress, and served 

 one term. He became a member and President of the 

 Territorial Council in 1872; was re-elected to the 

 council in 1874, and elected to the Legislature in 1878 ; 

 and was appointed United States Senator, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the appointment of Senator Henry 

 M. Teller to be Secretary of the Interior, April 11, 

 1882. He served in this office one year. 



Clapp, Asa W. H,, merchant, born in Portland, Me., 

 in ]805; died there, March 22, 1891. He was gradu- 

 ated at the Military Academy in Norwich, Vt., in 

 1823 ; was associated with his father in mercantile 

 business till his father's death in 1848 ; and was 

 afterward occupied with the care of large real-estate 

 and other investments. He was a member of Con- 

 gress from 1847 till 1849, and at the time of his death 

 was the oldest ex-member of Congress, excepting 

 Hannibal Hamlin (q. v. in this volume). He was a 

 quiet but generous giver, and was for many years a 

 director of the Maine General Hospital, the Portland 

 Public Library, and of other institutions. 



Clapp, William Warland, journalist, born in Boston, 

 Mass., April 11, 1826 ; died there, Dec. 8, 1891. His 

 father founded the Boston " Advertiser" in 1813 and 

 purchased the "Saturday Evening Gazette" in 1822, 

 and edited both papers for many years. William 

 was brought up in the office of the " Gazette," and 

 was its proprietor from 1847 till 1865. He then be- 

 came managing editor and principal proprietor of the 

 Boston " Journal," and retained control of it till June 

 30, 1891, when he retired from both the editorial and 

 the business management. In 1859-'60 he was a 

 member of the Common Council, and subsequently 

 was on the staffs of Govs. Banks and Andrew. He 

 was for many years President of the New England 

 Associated Press. He published "A Record of the 

 Boston Stage " and " The Drama in Boston." 



Clark, Alexander, lawyer, born in Washington County, 

 Pa., in February, 1826; died in Monrovia, Liberia, 

 June 3, 1891. He was a free colored man, received a 

 plain village education, learned the barber's trade in 

 Cincinnati, and in 1843 made his permanent home in 

 Muscatine, Iowa. He was elected delegate from Iowa 

 to the first national colored convention held in the 

 United States, which met at Rochester, N. Y., in 1853 ; 



