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DEATH OF H.H. CHAKMAKJIAN
Haroutioun Hovhannes (H.H.) Chakmakjian was a chemistry professor, an editor, the author of an extensive English-Armenian dictionary, and the father of a famous Armenian American composer.
Chakmakjian was born in Adana on October 20, 1879, in a family of farmers. He studied at the Apcarian school in Adana, and then at the Antoura French Missionary College in Beirut.
He began his career as a teacher in Caesarea (Kayseri) and Giresun. He taught in Beirut and then moved to Cyprus in 1901, emigrating to the United States in 1904. He eventually settled in Boston and studied at Harvard University (1905-1908). A member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Haroutioun Chakmakjian served as the editor in chief of the Hairenik newspaper…
