CHAFIN, EUGENE WILDER

(18501920), American prohibition advocate; b. East Troy, Wis. He entered the legal rofe ion and practiced law at Wauesga, Wis., 1876-1900. He was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908. He took a keen interest in temperance questions and his eloquence and enthusiasm made him a Jeader in the prohibition movement. In 1898 he was the candidate of the Prohibition party for governor of Wisconsin, that party nominated hi for the Presidency in 1908 and 1912. His publications include Lives of the Presidents, 1896; Lincoln, the Man of Sorrows, ae and Washington as a Statesman, town, France; wines. Pop. 4,700. of islets, Ind. Ocean; dependency of Mauritius.