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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CHALMERS COLTOX.) 



ward resided in Philadelphia, where till his death 

 he was corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian 

 Board of Ministerial Relief. Dr. Cattell received 

 the degree of D. D. from Hanover and Princeton 

 Colleges, and LL. D. from Wooster. 



Chalmers, James Ronald, lawyer, born in Hali- 

 fax County, Va., Jan. 11, 18:51: died in Memphis, 

 Tenn., April 9, 1898. He was a son of Joseph W. 

 Chalmers, a former United States Senator from 

 Mississippi; removed to that State in 1839; and 

 was graduated at South Carolina College in 1851. 

 He was admitted to the bar in 1853; was elected 

 district attorney of the 7th Judicial District of 

 Mississippi in 1858: was chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Military Affairs in the Secession Conven- 

 tion of his State in 1861 ; and entered the Confed- 

 erate army as a captain on the outbreak of the 

 civil war. In April, 1861. he was elected colonel of 

 the 9th Mississippi Regiment; in February, 1862, 

 was promoted brigadier general ; in the following 

 year was transferred to the cavalry service ; and in 

 May, 1865, while commanding the 1st Division of 

 Forrest's Cavalry Corps, surrendered. Gen. Chal- 

 mers was charged with being responsible for the 

 massacre of 300 Union soldiers, white and black, 

 at Fort Pillow, and the event was the subject of a 

 congressional investigation. In 1876-'77 he was a 

 State Senator. He was elected to Congress as a 

 Democrat from the 2d Mississippi District in 1876 

 and 1878. In 1880 he received the certificate of re- 

 election, but was unseated after a contest by John 

 R. Lynch, and in 1882, when an independent can- 

 didate, he was deprived of his certificate, and, con- 

 testing the election, was declared entitled to the 

 seat in Congress in June, 1884. 



Chase, Alden Fitzroy, educator, born in Wood- 

 stock, Me., Oct. 16, 1842 ; died at Kent's Hill, Me., 

 Oct. 22, 1898. He was graduated at Middletown 

 (Conn.) University in 1869 with highest honors, and 

 taught in Wilbraham, Mass., from 1869 to 1871. 

 From 1871 to 1883 he occupied the chair of Mathe- 

 matics and English Literature in the Maine Wes- 

 leyan Seminary and Female College, at Kent's Hill. 

 From 1883 to 1884 he was principal of the High 

 School at Milbury, Mass. In 1884 he was elected 

 to the presidency of the East Maine Conference 

 Seminary, at Bucksport, which office he resigned in 

 1896 to accept the presidency of the seminary and 

 college at Kent's Hill, where he died. He was a 

 member of the Maine Conference, and preached 

 occasionally, but his time and energies were devoted 

 mainly to the duties of his professorship. As a 

 boy Dr. Chase was considered a prodigy in mathe- 

 matics, and his profound scholarship and genial 

 bearing made him a leader among the educators of 

 Maine. 



Cisneros, Francisco Javier, patriot, born in 

 Santiago de Cuba in 1836 ; died in New York city, 

 July 7, 1898. He was graduated at the School of 

 Engineering in Havana and at Rensselaer Poly- 

 technic School, Troy, N. Y., and was immediately 

 engaged by a English syndicate to superintend the 

 building of railroads in Cuba. From early youth 

 he had been opposed to Spanish rule in Cuba, and 

 when the revolution of 1868 broke out he came 

 to the Tinted Slutes, and for six years organ i/cd 

 every lilibustering expedition that sailed for Cuba. 

 While directing one of them he was captured by a 

 United States vessel and held as a prisoner for some 

 time in Charleston. In 1874, having impoverished 

 himself in efforts to free his native island, he went 

 to the United States of Colombia and engaged in 

 engineering work, in which he acquired a second 

 large fortune. He returned to New York less than 

 a month before his death, on what was believed to 

 be a secret mission to the Government. Through- 

 out the revolution preceding the war between the 



United States and Spain he gave large sums of 

 money to promote the cause of the Cubans in their 

 struggle for independence. 



Cochran, John, lawyer, born in Palatine, Mont- 

 gomery County. N. Y., 'Aug. 27, 1813; died in New 

 York city, Feb. 7,1898. His grandfather, for whom he 

 was named, was a surgeon in the French and Indian 

 and the Revolutionary Wars. John was graduated 

 at Hamilton College, Clinton, X. Y., in 1831, am 

 was admitted to the bar in Oswego, N. Y., in li 

 He practiced in Oswego till 1845, and then removed 

 to New York, where he speedily attracted attention 

 by his abilities as a lawyer and'an orator. In 1 

 '57 he was surveyor of the port of New York, and 

 in 1857-'61 he represented the 6th New York Dis- 

 trict in Congress. On June 11, 1861, he was ap- 

 pointed colonel of the 1st United States Chasseurs, 

 which he commanded in the Peninsula campaign. 

 In the autumn following he made a memorable 

 speech in favor of arming the slaves against their 

 masters. On July 17, 1862, he was commissioned a 

 brigadier general of volunteers, and given a bri_ 

 in Gen. Couch's division of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac. He resigned his commission because of fail- 

 ing health, Feb. 27, 1863. In the following year the 

 National Convention of Independent Republicans 

 nominated him for Vice-President of the United 

 States on the ticket headed by Gen. John C. Fre- 

 mont, but he declined because he favored the re- 

 election of President Lincoln. During 1863-'65 he 

 was Attorney-General of the State of New York. 

 elected as a war Democrat. He was a delegai 

 the National Liberal Republican Convention in 

 1872, and was chiefly instrumental in securing the 

 nomination of Horace Greeley for President. The 

 same year he was president of the Common Council 

 of New York city, and acting mayor during the 

 temporary retirement of Mayor Hall. In 188-'l In 

 was again elected to the council as a Republican, 

 but afterward he returned to the Democratic party. 

 His last public office was that of police justice. 

 which he held for a short time in 1889. 



Collier, James Walter, actor, born in New York 

 city, 1834; died there, May 13, 1898. He made his 

 first appearance on the stage in " La Tour de N 

 at Newark, N. J., and in 1859 appeared as Rolando 

 in " The Honeymoon," in support of Charlotte Cush- 

 man at Niblo's Garden. He immediately became 

 very popular in New York city as a graceful and 

 handsome leading juvenile man. He married Mary 

 Mitchell, sister of Maggie Mitchell, and after live 

 years at Niblo's Garden he became leading man 

 with that actress and played with her many y 

 About 1876 Mr. Collier "became associated with 

 Sheridan Shook and A. M. Palmer, and managed 

 the "road" tours of all the Union Square Theater 

 successes. Out of these ventures he made a great 

 deal of money, which was lost in an effort to man 

 age the Union Square Theater. His last appear 

 ance on the stage was at a benefit given him at the 

 New York Academy of Music, June 24. 1885. 



Colton, Gardner Quincy. scientist, born in 

 Georgia, Vt., Feb. 7, 1814; died in Rotterdam, i 

 land. Aug. 11. 1898. He received a common-school 

 education; was apprenticed to the chair-making 

 trade, and followed it in St. Allmns till 1S!.": and 

 then spent seven years in New York, working a; 

 his trade and writing for the press. In lS-42 h< 

 began studying medicine with Willard Parker. M. I>. 

 and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 

 two years later he undertook a series ol' popular 

 lectures on philosophical and chemical topics, with 

 exhibitions of the marvels of electricity and tin 

 novel effects of nitrous oxide, or, as it became mon 

 generally known. " laughing gas." On Dec. 10, 1844, 

 while he was delivering a lecture in Hart ford. < 'onn , 

 and illustrating some of the amusing effects pn - 



