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Rh COLLIPULLE (call-ye-pull'-ye), Araneanian cacique, b. early in the 16th century; d. in 1576. When still very young he was appointed generalissimo of the Indian army of Chili, in 1504, after the death of its leader, the cacique Antigueun. In August of the same year he fought as a chief at the battle of Mariguena, and assisted in the defeat of the Spanish army commanded by a son of Vil- lagran. From 1565 till 1508 he had many encoun- ters with the Spaniards, in 15G9 besieged unsuc- cessfully the city of Valdivia, and in 1570 planned and fought three important battles at Cafiete, Vil- larrica, and the banks of the Biobio, where he was killed. Collipulle was seven feet in height, and famous for his extraordinary strength.

COLLOT, Victor, French explorer, b. in Cha- lons-sur-Marne about 1751 ; d. in Paris in July, 1805. He was an officer in the army, rose to be a general of brigade, and was at one time governor of Guadeloupe. He published a map of Detroit in 1790, also " Voyage dans le nord d'Amerique en 1790," and a "Memoire sur les moyens de soumettre les rebels de St. Dominique."

COLLYER, Robert, clergyman, b. in Keighly, Yorkshire. England, 8 Dec, 1823. He educated himself, having left school at the age of eight years to earn his living in a factory. The only instruction he received after that was in a night-school that he attended two winters. When fourteen years old he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In 1849 he became a local Methodist preacher, and the year following came to the United States, and, while still working as a hammer-maker in Shoemakertown, Pa., preached on Sundays. His views gradually changed in the direction of Unitarian- ism, and he was arraigned before the conference for heresy, and his license to preach revoked. The clumge in his views of the atonement was partly brought about by conversations with Lucretia Mott. The circumstance that the Methodist clergy at that time wei-e restrained from freely denouncing slavery had much influence in converting him to Unitarianism. While still working at his craft, he became known as an eloquent public speaker. In 1859 he united with the Unitarian church, and, going to Chicago, 111., became a missionary of the Unitarian church in that city, and in 1800 organized the Unity church, which began with only seven members, but rapidly increased in numbers under his spirited and earnest preaching. In 1801 he was a camp-inspector for the Sanitary commission. His reputation as a preacher and lecturer soon extended over the country. In September, 1879, he became pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York city. He has re-visited England five times since 1865, and travelled in other parts of Europe. He is the author of " Nature and Life" (Boston, 1860); "A Man in Earnest: Life of A. H. Conant" (1808); "The Life that Now Is" (1871); "The Simple Truth, a Home Book " (1877); "A History of the Town and Parish of Ilkley" (Otley, England, 1886), written in collaboration with Horsef all Turner; "Lectures to Young Men and Women " (1886).

COLMAN, Benjamin, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 19 Oct., 1078 ; d. there, 29 Aug., 1747. He was graduated at Harvard in 1692, began preaching soon afterward, embarked for England in July, 1695, was captured by a French privateer, and reached England after a brief imprisonment. He there became acquainted with eminent nonconformist divines, and preached in Bath and other places. In 1699 he returned to take charge of the Brattle street church, receiving ordination in London, because the society, just organized in opposition to the Cambridge platform, differed with the other churches in New England in regard to the forms of service, desiring to abolish the public relation of experiences, and to introduce reading of the Scriptures and recital of the Lord's prayer. He remained with the society, with which the other Boston churches long refused to hold communion, till his death, ranking among the first of New England clergymen, and exerting a powerful influence in civil affairs that sometimes drew censure upon him. He procured benefactions for Harvard and Yale colleges, and interested himself in the mission among the Housatonic Indians and other benevolent enterprises. In 1724 he was offered, but refused, the presidency of Harvard. Many of his sermons, some poems, and a tract in favor of in- oculation for small-pox, were published. His col- lected sermons were printed in three volumes (Bos- ton, 1707-'22). See " Life and Character of Col- man," by his son-in-law, the Hev. Ebenezer Turell (Boston, 1749), and Hopkins's "History of the Houssatonnoc Indians."

COLMAN, Henry, agricultural writer, b. in Boston, 12 Sept., 1785 ; d. in Islington, England, 14 Aug., 1849. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1805. From 1807 till 1820 he was a Congregational minister at Hingham, Mass., where he also taught school. He was a teacher in Boston in 1820-5, and from 1825 till 1831 had charge of a Unitarian churcli in Salem, when he left, being in ill health. He then engaged in farming at Deerfield, Mass., and was employed by the state, from 1886 till 1842, as commissioner to investigate its agricultural condition and resources. In 1888 and 1839 he issued reports on the agriculture of Massachusetts, and in 1840 published a " Report on Silk Culture." In 1842 he visited Europe in the employ of the Massachusetts agricultural society, and pursued investigations of European farming for six years. On his return, in 1848, he published in Boston "European Agricultural and Rural Economy," and a smaller work entitled " Agricultural and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland." He was the author also of " European Life and Manners, in Familiar Letters to Friends " (1849), and published two volumes of sermons. Visiting England again for his health in 1849, he died soon after his arrival.

COLMAN, Samuel, painter, b. in Portland, Me., in 1832. He began early to sketch from nature in and around New York, where his father was a publisher, and became a pupil of Asher B. Durand. In 1860-62 he studied in France and Spain ; in 1871 he again went abroad, and travelled in Switzerland, north Africa, Italy, France, and Spain, returning in 1876 to New York. He was elected an associate member of the National academy in 1860, and a full member in 1862. was a founder of the American society of painters in water-colors, and its first president in 1866-'71, and an original member of the Society of American artists in 1878. His studio is in New York. His pictures include "Bay of Gibraltar," "Andernach on the Rhine," " Street Scene in Caen, Normandy," " ]\Iarket I)ay in Brittany," " Arab Caravansary " (1879). " Arab Burying-Ground," " Dutch Boats off tlic Coast of Holland" (1880), "Misty Afternoon in Venice" (1881), " Zandam in Holland," " Ruins of Mosque in Algeria" (1882), and "Tower of Giralda" (1884).

COLOCOLO (col-o-co'-lo), Molucho or Araucanian cacique, b. about 1515; d. in October, 1561. When Valdivia inidertook the conquest of Arauco, Colocolo with 4.000 men and the cacique Aillavillu with his army set out to o])pose the advance of the Spaniards. A fierce battle ensued, Colocolo dis-