=Channing, William Ellery.= _R. I._, 1780-1842. A Unitarian theologian of eminence, who became pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston in 1803. He was the foremost theologian in America in his time, and his influence is still great. He wrote upon philanthropic and social as well as religious and ethical questions, and was a noted opponent of slavery. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, Icelandic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evidences of Revealed Religion; Self-Culture; Essay on Milton; The Duty of the Free States, are among his most notable works. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Lives by W. H. Channing, infra; C. T. Brooks, supra; Reminiscences by Miss Peabody; Correspondence of Channing and Lucy Aikin; New England Magazine, December, 1896._ _A. U. A._ =Channing, William Ellery.= _Ms._, 1818-1901. Son of W. Channing, _supra_. A poet and essayist of Concord, Massachusetts, who married a sister of Margaret Fuller, _infra_. His verse is thoroughly original in tone and more or less willful in form. His work in verse includes The Youth of the Painter, a series of psychological essays; Poems 1843-47; The Woodman; The Wanderer; Near Home; Eliot; John Brown; Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; Conversations in Rome between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose volumes. =Channing, William Francis.= _Ms._, 1820-1901. Son of W. E. Channing, 1st. A physician, scientist, and inventor. Davis’s Manual of Magnetism; Medical Application of Electricity; The American Fire Alarm Telegraph. =Channing, William Henry.= _Ms._, 1810-1884. Nephew of W. E. Channing. A Unitarian clergyman who settled in England, and succeeded James Martineau as pastor of the Unitarian Chapel in Hope Street, Liverpool. The Christian Church and Social Reform; Memoirs of Wm. E. Channing; Memoirs of James H. Perkins; Memoirs of Margaret Fuller (with R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke). _A. U. A._ =Chapin, Aaron Lucius.= _Ct._, 1817-1892. A Congregational clergyman of Wisconsin, who was president of Beloit College, 1849-86. First Principles of Political Economy. =Chapin, Alonzo Bowen.= _Ct._, 1808-1858. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford. Classical Spelling-Book; Organization and Order of the Primitive Church; Views of Gospel Truth; Glastenbury for 200 Years (1853); Puritanism not Protestantism. =Chapin, Edwin Hubbell.= _N. Y._, 1814-1881. A Universalist clergyman of New York city, long the foremost preacher in his denomination. The Crown of Thorns; Humanity in the City; Christianity the Perfection of True Manliness; Moral Aspects of City Life; Discourses on the Lord’s Prayer; Hours of Communion; Token for the Sorrowing; Characters in the Gospels. _See Life, by Sumner Ellis._