=Chase, Irah.= _Vt._, 1793-1864. A Baptist clergyman of prominence who founded the theological seminary at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and was professor there, 1825-45. Life of Bunyan; Design of Baptism; The Jewish Tabernacle; Infant Baptism an Invention of Men; The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, are his principal works. =Chase, Lucien B.= _Vt._, 1817-1864. A member of Congress from Tennessee, who wrote the History of Polk’s Administration. =Chase, Philander.= _N. H._, 1775-1852. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and, later, of Illinois. He founded Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. A Plea for the West; Defence of Kenyon College; Reminiscences. =Chase, Pliny Earle.= _Ms._, 1820-1886. An educator and scientist of Philadelphia. Numerical Relations of Gravity and Magnetism; Elements of Meteorology; Elements of Arithmetic; Common School Arithmetic. =Chase, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1827-1892. Brother of P. E. Chase, _supra_. An educator of Pennsylvania, and president of Haverford College. He was co-editor with George Stuart of a series of classical text-books, and also published Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery, descriptive of his travels in Greece. =Chatard, Francis Silas Marean.= _Md._, 1834- ----. The Roman Catholic bishop of Vincennes. Christian Truths. =Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield.= _Il._, 1865- ----. A novelist of Chicago. With Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two Women and a Fool; The Land of the Castanet. =Chauncy= [chän´sĭ or chaun´sĭ], =Charles.= _E._, 1592-1672. A Puritan clergyman, vicar of Ware, 1627-35. He came to America in 1638, and was 13 years minister at Scituate. He was the second president of Harvard College, succeeding Henry Dunster in 1654. His most important work is a series of Twenty-Six Sermons on Justification. Antisynodalia Scripta America, a controversial pamphlet, appeared in 1662. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10._ =Chauncy, Charles.= _Ms._, 1705-1787. Great-grandson of C. Chauncy, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. A vigourous, logical thinker, who exercised a great influence upon colonial thought. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; Discourse on Enthusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of whose teachings he was a strong opponent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete View of Episcopacy; The Mystery hid from the Ages; Benevolence of the Deity; Five Dissertations on the Fall and its Consequences; Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, comprise his principal works. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Chauncy Memorials._ =Chauvenet= [shō-ve-nay´], =William.= _Pa._, 1820-1870. A mathematician who was chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, 1862-69. Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Elementary Geometry. _See Memoir, 1877._ _Lip._