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=Church, John Adams.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Son of P. Church, _infra_. A
mining engineer of note. The Mining Schools of the United States; Notes
on a Metallurgical Journey in Europe; The Comstock Lode; Report on the
Striking of Artesian Water, Arizona.
=Church, Pharcellus.= _N. Y._, 1801-1886. A Baptist clergyman of
prominence. Philosophy of Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their
Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of Moral Power in the Church;
Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine Law; Seed-Truths; Theodosia.
=Church, Samuel Harden.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. A Pittsburg writer, the
author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful historical study. _Put._
=Chute, Horatio Nelson.= _Ont._, 1847- ----. A mathematical educator
of Michigan. Complete School Register; Arithmetical Cabinet; Manual of
Practical Physics.
=Cist, Henry Martyn.= _O._, 1839-1902. A Cincinnati lawyer who served
in the Federal army during the Civil War and became brigadier-general.
The Army of the Cumberland.
=Cist, Lewis Jacob.= _O._, 1818-1885. Brother of H. M. Cist, _supra_. A
banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati who published Trifles in Verse.
=Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin [Davenport].= _Ms._, 1825-1896. A Boston
writer, the wife of ex-Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts. Brampton
Sketches; Personal Recollections of Whittier; Real Happenings; Under
the Elms. _Cr._
=Claiborne= [klā´burn], =John Francis Hamtramck.= _Mi._, 1809-1884. A
journalist of New Orleans. Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and
State; Life of General Dale, the Mississippi Partisan; Life of General
Quitman. _Har._
=Claiborne, John Herbert.= _Va._, 1828- ----. A physician of Virginia.
Diphtheria; Dysmenorrhea; Clinical Reports from Private Practice.
=Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert.= _Va._, 1777-1859. Uncle of J. F. H.
Claiborne, _supra_. A Virginia congressman. Notes on the War in the
South (1819).
=Clap, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1669-1745. A clergyman of Newport, of some
distinction in his day. Advice to Children; The Lord’s Voice Crying to
the People in some Extraordinary Dispensations.
=Clap, Roger.= _E._, 1609-1691. A colonist of Dorchester, whose
Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times reprinted,
and possess considerable historical value. They were first edited and
published by Thomas Prince, _infra_, 1731.
=Clap, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1703-1767. A Congregational clergyman of
distinction, president of Yale College, 1740-66. The Nature and
Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History of Yale College;
Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion
of Meteors; The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale,
comprise his chief works. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Clapp, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1792-1866. A Unitarian minister of New
Orleans for many years. Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years’
Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; Slavery, a Sermon.
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