OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CANNING CHASE.) 



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A hieh resulted in the establishment of the Uni- 



..t '( 'liic;n:o in is;,;. In is.'.i; lie accepted the, 



ne\ Hi' t!i<- I'liivi-rsity nf Chicago, which 1m 

 held till 1874, and soon after resigning ho was ap- 



i a member t' tin' l!i .aril nf Kducati"ii of Chi- 



Stncc isvl he luiil l>cc 11 assistant superintend- 

 ent i.t 1 public schools iii that city. 

 Canning, Joaiah D., author, born in Gill, Mass., in 



lied then-, March >'>, ls'.i-j. He began writing 



in rnrly life ; published his first volume, dedi- 

 cated in Even True New Englander, especially the 

 MI n ..f Massachusetts," at Greenfield, in ls:is, and a 



vi.luiiu- a i'r\v years afterward, and had a third 

 volume, riititlnl "Connecticut Kivi-r I{c-ds, blown 

 liy the Pleasant Bard," in the hands of a Boston pul>- 

 li'-li< r at the time of bis death. He was known 

 throughout New England as the "Pleasant Bard," 

 und owned the heavy-clasped Bible that Gov. Moses 

 Gill gave to the church or Gill together with a eom- 

 nuinioii serviee, in acknowledgment of the naming of 

 the ton in his honor. 



Carle, James, military officer, horn in Windsor, N.Y., 

 Sept. -S, 1835; died in" New York city, April 26, 1892. 

 IK n-ceived a public-school education, and when 

 twenty vears old enlisted as a private in the regular 

 army.' lie served for live years on the plains, and was 

 mustered out of the service immediately before the 

 breaking out of the civil war. When he heard of the 

 tiring mi Fort Suinter. he re-entered the army as a 

 private in the 6th Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was pro- 

 moted captain, Oct. 25,1861 ; was provost-marshal dur- 

 ing the Chanoellorsville campaign in 1863 ; was com- 

 missioned colonel of the 191st United States Infantry 

 on June 6, 1864; was recommended for appointment 

 as 1'ivvct brigadier-general for gallantry at the cross- 

 ing of .lames river, where he was in command of a 

 briirade, on June 17 following, and received the ap- 

 pointment in March, lsi>r>. Gen. Carle distinguished 

 himself in the battle of White Oak Swamp, at Gettys- 

 burg. where his regiment captured the only gun taken 

 from the enemy on the first day, at Spottsylvania 

 Courthouse, at Bethesda Church, and at the battle 

 for the \Veldon lload, where he was captured. lie 



ntincd in Lihby, Salisbury, and Danville pris- 

 ons, and contracted rheumatism, from which he never 



id. Since 1870 ho had been "inspector of 



a the United States customhouse, New York. 

 Cassidy, George William, journalist, born in Bourbon 

 County. Kv., April 2">, Is36; died in Reno, Nev., Juno 

 '21, l^'.'-_'. lie was educated in the public schools and 

 by private tutors; made the overland trip to Califor- 

 nia, and engaged in mining in 1857; and, after set- 

 tling in Nevada, became editor of the Eureka "Sen- 

 tinel.'' In 1872 and 1876 he was elected to the State 

 Senate, and during the session of 1879 he was its pre- 

 sidin<_' oilieer. In 1880 and 1882 ho was elected rep- 



itive-at-largc to Congress as a Democrat, and 

 duniiir his last term he served on the committees on 

 Mines and Mining and on the Pacific Railroad. Short- 

 ly In tore his death he again received the Democratic 

 nomination for Congress. He was a delegate to the 

 Si l\cr Convention hi Reno, and died suddenly after 

 delivering an address. 



Castle, Orlando Lane, educator, born in Jericho, Vt, 

 July 'jo. is _>;; died in Alton, Ohio, Jan. 81. 1 -'.'-'. 

 Ib-'\\as graduated at Donison t'niversity. Ohio, in 

 1846, spent one year as tutor there, and for I 

 years atterward had charge of the public schools in 

 Zaneeville. In ls:>s he accepted the call to the chair 



H'lic, Or-itory. and Belles-lettres in Shurtlcn" 

 College. Upper Alton, HI., and he retained this office 

 till his death. The patent-office reports show that 

 the Ucv. Thomas Hill, D. D.. then President of Har- 

 vard University, and Prof. Castle on the same day 

 obtained letters patent for an invention under the 



ne title, vi/., An instrument called an Arith- 

 mometer. designed to tacilitate the addition of long 

 column-." Prof. < 'astle received the derive of 1.1.. I ). 

 from Dinisoii University in 1S77. President Kcii- 

 driek, of Shurtlctf College, says of him : "Ho pos- 

 sessed talent without vanity, learning without pedant- 



ry, taste without faxtidiou0neM, and In 

 nient of study was master of all social, uck-nti:. 

 practical inn stii'ii-." 



Ohamberlin, Edwin M., journalist IUI >1 refonin 

 in NS'c.-t Cambridge, Mass., in 1*3'>; <lied in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., Feb. 23, 18H2. He wa heir to valuable 

 property in Boston, and had unusual financial pros- 

 pect,-, in other directions, but, becoming 

 an early age in the general movement for labor reform, 

 he sacrificed his personal interests to that cau.- 

 lieving that the laboring people could gain more from 

 political action than through striken, ho ardently 

 supported every ticket in his State und in the country 

 that was nominated by the Labor party. He was 

 also a stanch friend ot the temperance and woman- 

 sutt'rage movements, and for many years was editor 

 and proprietor of " The Echo," a journal for the 

 promotion of radical economic ideas. He served in 

 the national army through the civil war, and was 

 mustered out of the serviee with the rank of lieuten- 

 ant. In 1866 he assisted in forming " The Industrial 

 Order of the People," and in 1869 and 1870 was Labor 

 candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, and polled 

 each time from 13,500 to 15,000 votes. Joseph Arch, 

 the famous English agricultural reformer, tinst came 

 to the United States on the invitation of Mr. Cham- 

 berlin. For many years he was a member of the 

 Workingmen's Institute, and conducted the debates 

 and the classes in social economics. The last notable 

 act of his life was his appearance, a few days before 

 his death, before the legislative Committee on Consti- 

 tutional Amendments to explain his petition for re- 

 ferring to the people all legislative acts, orders, or re- 

 solves ; also for the purpose of advocating for sub- 

 mission to the popular vote any proposed law that 

 6,000 citizens might unite in petitioning for. These 

 propositions were based on the Swiss referendum. 



Cnapin, Aaron Lncius, educator, born in Hartford, 

 Conn., Feb. 4, 1817; died in Beloit, Wis., July L'I>, 

 1892. He was graduated at Yale in 1837 ; was i 

 or at the New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb 

 in 1838-'43; was graduated at Union Theological Sem- 

 inary in 1842; and was pastor of the 1st Pnsbvterian 

 Church in Milwaukee from 1844 till 1850. In Febru- 

 ary of the latter year he was elected the first Presi- 

 dent of Beloit College, and he held the office till 1^'i, 

 when he resigned because of impaired health, and was 

 chosen president emeritus and Professor of Civil Pol- 

 ity. Dr. Chapin was for many years a corporate mem- 

 ber of the American Board of Commissioners for For- 

 eign Missions, a life director of the American Home 

 Missionary Society, Vice-President of the American 

 Missionary Association, and president of the board of 

 trustees of the State Institute for Deaf Mutes at Dda- 

 van. He was also a member of the board of examin- 

 ers of the United States Naval Academy in 1*7 J, and 

 of the United States Military Academy in 1*78, and 

 was President of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences. 



Ghapin, John Henry, clergyman, bom in Leaves-' 

 worth, Ind., in 1832 ; died in Norwalk, Conn., March 

 14, 1892. He was pastor of the 1st Dnlrenaliat 

 Church in Meriden, Conn., from 1873 till 1 !->:>, when 

 he retired from pulpit labor; was elected to the State 

 Legislature as a Republican in isss; and was the 

 father of the present State aiitiscreen law. Dr. Cha- 

 pin was for several years Professor of Mbterakgrand 

 Geology in St. Lawrence University. Canton, N. Y., 



and was an active mei.nher of the Anu-riciin A 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. Dur 

 last two vears of his life he was employed on the lu-w 

 topographic*] survey of Connecticut. 

 Chase, Thomas, educator, born in Worcester, Maw., 

 une If', ls-j7; died in Providence, K. !.._' 



He was L rraduatcd at Harvard University m 1848; 

 was tutor there in 1850-'53; studied in the University 

 of Berlin in 1854, and in the CoUeM de rnm.-eii 

 1855 ; was called to the chair of Greek and Latin at 



