was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama. He was elected U. S. senator, and served from 5 Dec, 1825, until his death, which took place at the residence of his brother. Judge Edward Chambers, of the superior court of Virginia, while on his way to Washington.
CHAMBERS, John, jurist, b. about 1710 ; d.
in New York, 10 April, 1765. He was a member
of the executive council in 1754, and attended as
one of the commissioners the congress at Albany
on 14 June of that year. He was soon afterward
appointed judge, and still later became the chief
justice of New York.
CHAMBERS, John, governor of Iowa, b. in
New Jersey, 4 Dec, 1779; d. near Paris, Ky., 21
Sept., 1852. When thirteen years of age he re-
moved to Kentucky, and, settling in Washington,
Mason co., studied law, was admitted to the bar,
and obtained a lucrative practice. He served in
the war of 1812, and in 1813 became volunteer aide
to Gen. Harrison, whose election to the presidency
in 1840 he earnestly promoted. He was frequently
a member of the Kentucky legislature, was a mem-
ber of congress in 1827-9 and 1835-'9, and gov-
ernor of Iowa in 1841-'5. While acting in this
latter capacity he acquired great influence among
the discordant Indian tribes.
CHAMBERS, Talbot Wilson, clergyman, b. in
Carlisle. Pa., 25 Feb., 1819; d. in New York city,
3 Feb.. 1896. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1834,
and later at Princeton. He was licensed to preach
in Clinton, Miss., in 1838, and subsequently was
ordained in the Reformed Dutch classis at New
Brunswick, N. J., in January, 1840, meanwhile
having become pastor of the 2d Reformed Dutch
church in Somerville, N. J., where he remained
until 1849. In December of the latter year he
was installed as one of the pastors of the collegiate
Dutch church. New York, and has since regularly
preached in the Lafayette place church. He was
the Vedder lecturer at New Brunswick, N. J., in
1875, chairman of the committee on versions of
the American Bible society, and member of the
American Bible revision committee, Old-Testament
company. In 1868 he was appointed a trustee of
Rutgers, and in 1881 became a trustee of Colum-
bia, from which institution, in 1853, he received
the degree of S. T. D. His publications include, be-
sides numerous pamphlets and magazine articles,
"The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street"
(New York, 1857) ; " Memoir of Theodore Freling-
huysen " (1863) ; " Exposition of the Book of Zach-
ariah" in Lange's "Commentary" (1874); "The
Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible "
(Vedder lectures, 1875) ; and " Companion to the
Revised Version of the Old Testament " (1885).
CHAMBERS, William, Scottish author and
publisher, b. in Peebles, Scotland, in 1800 ; d. in
Edinburgh, 20 May, 1883. He was apprenticed to
a printer in Edinburgh, afterward opened a book-
stall, and in 1829, with his brother Robert, estab-
lished a publishing-house, which became the most
extensive in Scotland. They founded the " Edin-
burgh Journal" in 1832, and compiled and pub-
lished numerous works adapted to the wants of
the people. In 1865 Wilham was made lord-pro-
vost of Edinburgh. He gave his impressions of
the United States in " Things as they are in
America" (New York, 1854) and "Slavery and Col-
or in America" (London, 1857), and compiled a
" Hand-book of American Literature " (1857). See
" Memoir of William and Robert Chambers " (Edin-
burgh, 1872; 12th ed., 1883).
CHAMBLISS, John Randolph, soldier, b. in
Hicksford, Greenville co., Va., 23 Jan., 1833 ; d. in
Deep Bottom, near Richmond, Va., 16 Aug., 1864.
His father, John R. Chambliss, was a delegate to
the Virginia secession convention of 1861. Young
Chambliss was graduated at the U. S. military
academy in 1853, and served at the cavalry school,
Carlisle, Pa., till 4 March, 1854, when he resigned.
He then became a planter at Hicksford, Va., was
major on the staff of the governor from 1856 till
1861, and colonel in the militia from 1858 till 1861.
He joined the Confederate army at the beginning
of the civil war as colonel of an infantry regiment,
and afterward became colonel of the 18th Virginia
cavalry. He was subsequently made a brigadier-
general, and was killed in action while leading a
brigade of cavalry.
CHAMBLISS. William Parham, soldier, b. in
Chamblissburg, Va.. 20 March, 1827; d. in Coburg,
Can., 23 Feb., 1887. After attending a private school,
he served through the Mexican war as second lieu-
tenant in the 1st Tennessee volunteers from June,
1846, till July, 1847, and afterward as captain of
the 3d Tennessee volunteers. From 1850 till 1855
he practised law in Pulaski, Tenn., and from 1852
till 1855 edited there the " Citizen," a democratic
weekly newspaper. He was also a member of the
legishiture from 1853 till 1854. He entered the
regular army as first lieutenant in the 2d cavalry,
3 March, 1855, and was engaged in Texas against
hostile Indians most of the time till March, 1861.
He was made captain in the 5th cavalry, 6 April,
1861, and served through the Manassas and penin-
sular campaigns, receiving the brevet of major,
4 May, 1862, for gallantry at Hanover Court-House,
Va. At the battle of Gaines's Mills, 27 June, 1862,
he was wounded in several places, lay four days
and four nights on the field of battle, and was
then taken to Libby prison, Richmond. For his
conduct at Gaines's Mills he was brevetted lieuten-
ant-colonel on 28 June, 1862. The wounds that he
received on this occasion nearly caused his death,
and have partially disabled him for the rest of
his life. After his release from Libby prison he
underwent treatment in St. Luke's hospital. New
York, and then served as instructor of cavalry at
the U. S. military academy from October, 1862, till
June, 1864. He was made major in the 4th caval-
ry, 30 March, 1864, served as special inspector of
cavalry, division of the Mississippi, from August,
1864, till April, 1865, and with his regiment in
Texas till 1 Nov., 1867, when he resigned and be-
came president and general manager of the Co-
bourg railway and mining company, Cobourg,
Canada. He has published a pamphlet on " Gen.
McClellan and the Presidency " (1864).
CHAMBODLT, Louis Claude Marie (sham-bo-dew), clergyman, b. in St. Just-en-Chevalet,
France, in 1821 : d. in Galveston, Texas, in 1880.
He studied theology in the seminary of Lyons, and,
after being ordained deacon, came to the United
States in 1845. He was made a priest in St. Louis
in 1846, and in 1847 erected a church in Nacog-
doches, of which he became pastor. In 1851 he
was summoned to the cathedral of Galveston, ap-
pointed vicar-general of the diocese, and made ad-
ministrator of the diocese, when Bishop Odin was
transferred to New Orleans. During the war he
was unremitting in his care of the wounded, and
founded several charitable institutions.
CHAMORRO, Frutos (chah-mor'-ro). Central American statesman, b. in Guatemala in 1806; d. 12 March, 1855. He belonged to an old and wealthy Spanish family, but joined the national cause, and became a member of the legislature of
Nicaragua and of the constituent assembly, and a senator (1838- '42) ; and when, in 1843, an attempt
