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Rh academy in 1832, assigned to the 2d artillery, and served at Charleston, S. C, during the nullification excitement in 1882-3. lie was adjutant from 1883 till 1834, and resigned on 1 April of the lat- ter year. He then devoted himself to planting in Virginia and Mississippi, and was president of the Virginia state agricultural society from 1853 till 1856. He was made a brigadier-general in the Confederate service early in 1801, and commanded the 5th brigade at the first battle of Bull Run. After an eight months' campaign he returned home, shattered in body and mind, and shot him- self in a paroxysm of insanity. He published "Plantation and Farm Instruction" (1852).

COCKE, William, senator, b. in Virginia about 1740; d. in Columbus, Miss.. 22 Aug., 1828. He began the practice of law, and after serving as a member of the Virginia leijisJature and a colonel of militia he went to Tennessee, where he became brigadier-general of militia. When Tennessee was admitted into the Union in 1796, Cocke and Will- iam Blount were elected as its first U. S. senators. Cocice served from 5 Dec, 1796. till 1797, and again from 1799 till 3 March. 1805. He was a member of the legislature in 1813, a judge of the circuit court, and in 1814 appointed by President Madison Indian agent for the Chickasaw nation. He has a monument in Columbus, Miss. — His son, John, soldier, b. in Brunswick, Nottaway co., Va., in 1772; d. in Rutledge, Granger co., Tenn., 16 Feb., 1854. He went with his father to Tennessee early in life, and, after receiving a common-school education, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the first legislature in 1796, speaker of the house for many years, and afterward became a member of the state senate. He was made major-general of the East Tennessee six-months' volunteers on 25 Sept., 1813, com- manding them in the Creek war, was made colonel of a regiment of Tennessee volunteers on 13 Nov., 1814, and served under Jackson at New Orleans. He was elected to congress for four successive terms, serving from 6 Dec, 1819, till 3 March, 1827, after which he devoted himself to planting.

COCKRELL, Francis Marion, senator, b. in Johnson county, Mo., 1 Oct., 1834. He was gradu- ated at Chapel Hill, Mo., in 1853, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in Warrens- burg. He entered the Confederate army, where he rose to be a colonel, commanding the 1st Missouri brigade under Gen. Bowen, which was routed at Baker's Creek, and he was afterward commissioned a brigadier-general. He never held a public office untirelected as a democratic senator in congress from Missouri, to succeed Carl Schurz, taking his seat on 4 March, 1875. He was re-elected in 1880 for the term expiring 3 March, 1887.

CODAZZI, Agostine (ko-dat'-see), Italian en- gineer, b. in Lugo, Italy, in 1792 ; d. in 1859. He made several campaigns under Napoleon, and af- terward distinguished himself as an engineer in South America. He went to Santa Fe de Bogota about 1826, entered the Colombian service as lieu- tenant-colonel of artillery, and was employed in making charts and preparing plans of defence. Gen. Paez appointed him in 1831 to prepare charts of the new republic of Venezuela, and he was occu- pied until 1840 with this work, taking part twice during that time in defensive military expeditions. In 1838 and 1889 he conducted an exploration to the interior of Guiana, penetrating nearly to the sources of the Orinoco. He was made a colonel in the Venezuelan army, afterward established a Ger- man colony in the republic and in 1848 was em- ployed by the government of New Granada upon a topographical survey. During his later explora- tions he visited the isthmus of Panama to ascer- tain the possibility of cutting a canal through it. Col. Codazzi published " Resiimen de la Gcografia de Venezuela," with an extensive chart of the country (Paris, 1841), and other works.

CODDING, Ichabod, clergyman, b. in Bristol. N. Y., in 1811 ; d. in Baraboo.'Wis., 17 June, 1866. He became a popular temperance lecturer at the age of seventeen, and during his junior year at Middlebury, where he entered in 1834, interested himself so much in the anti-slavery movement that he obtained leave to speak publicly in its behalf. His addresses raised such a storm of opposition that his life was several times in danger, and the col- lege faculty, fearing the popular fury, represented that his absence was without permission. Codding compelled them to retract this statement, and then, leaving the college, served for five years as agent and lecturer of the Anti-slavery society, speaking continually in New England and New York. It is said that he never lost his self-command, though often assailed by mobs. He removed to the west in 1842, entered the Congregational ministry, and held pastorates in Princeton, Lockport, Joliet, and elsewhere. He also continued to lecture in the west, where he was greatly admired and loved.

CODDINGTON, William, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, b. in Lincolnshire, England, in 1601 ; d. 1 Nov., 1678. He was one of the Massachusetts magistrates appointed by the crown, and arrived al Salem in the ship "Arbella," in 1680. While exercising his judicial functions, he traded as a merchant in Boston, and accumulated real estate at Braintree. With Gov. Vane, he sympathized with the Antinomian party, and at the general election of May, 1637, when Winthrop superseded Vane as governor, Coddington's name was dropped from the roll, but on the following day both he and Vane were elected deputies to the court from Boston. When Mrs. Hutchinson was tried, Coddington imdertook her defence against Winthrop and his party, and also unsuccessfully opposed the banishment of Wheelwright and other Antinomians. Wishing to enjoy peace, eighteen of the party, led by Coddington and John Clark, removed in 1688, intending to settle on Long Island, or Delaware bay, but, by the advice of Roger Williams, selected the island of Aquidneck, now Rhode Island, for their home. Having drawn up and signed an agreement to be "judged and guided by the absolute laws of Christ," Coddington was elected judge or chief magistrate, with a council of three elders, who were enjoined by a vote of the freemen to be guided by God's laws. At a general election, iield in Newport, 12 March. 1640. the titles of judge and ejder were abolished, and Coddington was elected governor, with a deputy and four assistants. He continued in ofhee until a charter