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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CHESTER COLLINS.) 



Haverford College, Pa., in 1855; and was president 

 there from 1875 till 1886, when he resigned on ac- 

 count of failing health. He then spent more than a 

 year in visitingthe universities and other educational 

 institutions in Europe, and during the last few years 

 applied himself to literary work, and acted at times as 

 professor in the classical course at Brown University. 

 Dr. Chase was a member of the American Committee 

 for the revision of the New Testament, and was also 

 a member of the Philological Congress held in Stock- 

 holm in 1889. His publications include an edition of 

 "Cicero on Immortality" (Cambridge, 1881); "Vir- 

 gil's JEneid" (Philadelphia, 1868); "Hellas: Her 

 Monuments and Scenery " (1863) ;" Horace " (1869) ; 

 "First Six Books of the ^Eneid" (1870): "Four 

 Books of Livy" (1872); "Juvenal and Perseus" 

 (1876); and "A Latin Grammar" (Philadelphia, 

 1882). He also published Latin text-books, numer- 

 ous essays, including " Wordsworth," the " Homeric 

 Question," " Curtius's History of Greece," " Goethe 

 and Schiller," " Orations on Abraham Lincoln," and 

 " The Poetry of Whittier," and a memorable address 

 delivered at the opening of Bryn Mawr College on 

 " Liberal Education : Its Aims and Methods." 



Cheater, Albert Tracy, educator, born in Norwich, 

 Conn., June 16, 1812; died in Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 7, 

 1892. He was graduated at Union College in 1833, 

 studied theology with Eliphalet Nott, and was or- 

 dained a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in 

 1836. During the next thirteen years he was pastor of 

 Presbyterian churches at Ballston Spa and Saratoga, 

 N. Y.,'and from 1860 till 1886 was principal of the Buf- 

 falo Female Academy. Dr. Chester remained active 

 in pulpit work till las final sickness. He was presi- 

 dent of the Historical Society, the Natural Science As- 

 sociation, and the Academy of Fine Arts of Buffalo. 



Chester, T. Morris, lawyer, died in Harrisburg, Pa., 

 Sept. 30, 1892. He was born of colored parents ; was 

 graduated at Thetford Academy, Vermont, in 1856, and 

 uien went to Liberia, where he became superintendent 

 of the colony of Africans recaptured from American 

 slavers, with whom he remained as a teacher till the 

 outbreak of the civil war, when he returned to the 

 United States and assisted in raising the 54th and 

 55th regiments of Massachusetts colored troops. He 

 entered the field himself as war correspondent of the 

 Philadelphia " Express," serving with the armies of 

 the James and of the Potomac till after Lee's sur- 

 render, arid it is said that his letter on the capture of 

 Eichmond was received a day in advance of that of 

 any other correspondent. In'l866 he visited Europe 

 and passed the winter in Russia, where he was a spe- 

 cial guest of the Emperor Alexander II at a review 

 of 40,000 troops in St. Petersburg. He then visited 

 the courts of Denmark, Sweden, Saxony, and Eng- 

 land, and was well received by many of the literary 

 men of Paris. After spending four years in European 

 travel, he studied law at Middle Temple Inn, London, 

 and was admitted to the English bar in 1870. being 

 the first colored lawyer in England. In 1871 he set- 

 tled in Louisiana, where he practiced law, and was 

 active in establishing schools tor the education of the 

 colored people. He also was appointed commander 

 of the 1st Brigade of the State militia. Mr. Chester 

 was United States commissioner from 18V3 till 1879, 

 and became President of the Wilmington, Wrights- 

 ville and Onslow Railroad Company in 1884. 



Chidlaw, Benjamin Wi, missionary, born in North 

 Wales, July 14, 1811 ; died there, July 13, 1892. He 

 came to the United States when ten years o_ld, settled 

 in Ohio, and was graduated at Miami University in 

 1833. Soon afterward he was ordained a minister of 

 the Presbyterian Church, and for fifty-seven years 

 he was connected with the American Sunday-school 

 Union as missionary or superintendent. In this field 

 he had remarkable success, and it is believed he or- 

 ganized more Sunday schools than any other person. 



Clark, Myron Holley, politician, born in Naples, On- 

 tario County, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1806; died in Canandai- 

 gua, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1892. He received a common- 

 school education, was apprenticed to the cabinet- 



making trade, and followed it for several years. En- 

 tering public life at an early age, he was elected to 

 nearly all the town offices successively, and when 

 thirty years old was chosen sheriff. He removed to 

 Canandaigua before the expiration of his term as 

 sheriff; was president of the town in 1850~'51. State 

 Senator in 1852-'54,and was elected Governor in 1854. 

 He had for opponents Horatio Seymour, Greene C. 

 Bronson, and Daniel Ullman; and, although he was 

 the Whig candidate, his nomination was accepted by 

 the State Temperance and the Free-Soil Democratic 

 conventions. He was elected by a small plurality. 

 From 1862 till 1868 he was collector of internal reve- 

 nue, and on retiring from this office withdrew from 

 public life. Gov. Clark was active in all temperance 

 legislation, and while chairman of the Senate com- 

 mittee on that subject he carried to adoption a pro- 

 hibitory law, which was vetoed by Gov. Seymour. 

 A new one was passed during his term as Governor, 

 and he signed it. 



Colahan, John B., lawyer, born in Ballinasloe, Ire- 

 land, in 1815; died in Philadelphia. Pa., March 24, 

 1892. He came to the United States in early youth, 

 first settling at Alexandria, Va. ; was one of the en- 

 gineers and the astronomer employed by the United 

 States Government in the survey of the boundary 

 line between Louisiana and Texas when the latter 

 was admitted into the Union ; and was engaged in 

 the construction of the Eastern Shore and the North- 

 ern Central Railroads. During the riots in Philadel- 

 phia in 1844, as captain of the Montgomery Guards, 

 with but 19 men, he held the Roman Catholic Church 

 of St. Philip de Neri against a large mob. In later 

 years he was a member of the Philadelphia bar. 



Cole, Joseph Foxcroft, painter, born in Jay, Me., Nov. 

 9, 1837 ; died in Boston, Mass.. May 2, 1892. For sev- 

 eral years after leaving school he was employed in 

 Boston as a lithographer. In 1860-'63 he studied 

 painting with Lambmet and Jacque in Paris, and 

 afterward he resided alternately in Paris and Boston. 

 Mr. Cole was a frequent contributor to the Paris 

 Salon and to the Royal Academy in London. Many 

 of his most notable paintings are in private galleries 

 and in the Union and Somerset Clubs of Boston. 

 His chief works are : " A Pastoral Scene in Nor- 

 mandy," exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1875 ; " Twi- 

 light, Melrose Highlands," " Cows ruminating," and 

 a " Coast Scene in Normandy," shown at the United 

 States Centennial Exhibition, 1876 ; " A Norman 

 Farm" and " Sheep- Washing in Normandy," at the 

 Royal Academy in London in 1877 ; " Willow Brook," 

 owned by the Boston Somerset Club ; " Weakest 

 goes to the Wall," now in a private gallery in Bos- 

 ton; and the well-known etching, " A Village Street 

 in I ranee, with a Flock of Sheep." 



Collins, Frederic, philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., in 1822; died in Chestnut Hill, Pa., Nov. 27,1892. 

 He was a son of Isaac Collins, the well-known phi- 

 lanthropist of a generation ago. Isaac Collins, among 

 his numerous benevolent occupations, had charge of 

 the Philadelphia House of Refuge, and to this model 

 institution his son Frederic gave many of the best 

 years of his life, succeeding his father as president. 

 To him, in large measure, Pennsylvania owes the 

 abolition of lotteries and much other reformatory 

 work of lasting importance. 



Collins, Rebecca, philanthropist, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Oct. 13, 1804 ; died in New York city, April 

 30, 1892. She was of German-Lutheran parentage, 

 and when nineteen years old united with the Society 

 of Friends, and began preaching in their meetings and 

 engaging in their religious and philanthropic work. 

 In this labor she passed the remainder of her life, 

 being ably assisted for twenty-five years by her hus- 

 band, Isaac Collins, who died in 1863. She then re- 

 moved to New York city, and subsequently made 

 long journeys in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, 

 Germany, and Norway, attending the meetings of the 

 Friends in those countries. She also had visited al- 

 most every meeting of the Friends in the United 

 States. While in New York city she extended her 



