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Christopher Champlin
Gender:
Male
Born:
1794
Died:
January 1811
Later Residences:
Nassau, Bahamas
Biographical Notes:
Christopher Champlin was the son of Hon. Christopher Grant and Martha Redwood (Ellery) Champlin. He attended Yale and was the youngest member of the Yale class of 1810. He studied briefly at the law school before emigrating to the Bahamas. He died at Nassau, New Providence in the Bahamas only four months after his graduation.
Education
Years at LLS:
1810
Other Education:
Graduated from Yale College in 1810.
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation. Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Ledger. "Journals of the Barr - Litchfield County." Litchfield Historical Society.; Catalogue of Litchfield Law School (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Tiffany, Case and Company, 1849), 8.
Litchfield County Bar Association Records, 1810, Litchfield Historical Society, Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library.
Litchfield County Bar Association Records, 1810, Litchfield Historical Society, Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library.
Secondary Sources:
Mason, George Champlin. Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. Newport, RI: George C. Mason, 1890.
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