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723 Congregational church in Ware, Mass. He removed to Portsmouth, N. H., in 1836, and a few months afterward became pastor of the 1st Con- gregational church in Lynn, Mass., where he re- mained until his death. The financial embarrass- ment of his congregation, occasioned by the build- ing of a new church, led him to undertake, in 1840, the editorship of the " New England Puri- tan," published in Boston, and he continued in journalism from the conviction that he could be useful in that work. The " Puritan " was subse- quently united with the " Recorder," of which Dr. Cooke became senior editor, retaining the place until his death. Dr. Cooke was strongly Calvin- istic in his views, constantly opposed the new- school or moderately Calvinistic Congregational- ists, and occasionally became involved in discus- sions with other denominations. As a preacher, he was doctrinal rather than hortatory. Williams college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1849. His publications include a sermon on "The Exclu- siveness of Unitarianism," the cause of his first controversy (1839) ; a " History of German Ana- baptism " ; "A Century of Puritanism and a Century of its Opposites " (Boston, 1857) ; and oc- casional sermons and addresses.

COOKE, Rose Terry, author, b. in West Hart- ford, Conn., 17 Feb., 1827; d. in Pittsfield, Berk- shire CO., Mass., 18 July, 1893. She was married to R. H. Cooke, of Winsted, Conn., in 1873. She published "Poems by Rose Terry" (Boston, 1860); "Ilapjiy Dodd"(1879); "Somebody's Neighbors" (ISSl); and "Root-Bound" and "The Sphinx's Children " (1886). She wrote many short maga- zine stories, some of them humorous, mainly de- scribing New England life. " The Two Villages " is her best-known poem.

COOKINS, James, artist, b. in Terre Haute, Ind., about 1835. After studying two years in Munich, he opened a studio in Cincinnati in 1861. He studied again in Munich from 1865 till 1870, and then settled in Chicago, 111. He has much talent as a landscape-painter, and liis illustrations of fairy tales show great power of invention.

COOKMAN, George Grimston, clergyman, b. in Hull, England, 21 Oct., 1800 ; lost at sea in March, 1841. He came to the United States on business in 1823, and while here became convinced that it was his duty to preach the gospel. One of his objects in coming to this country was to bear some humble part in the emancipation of the slaves of the south. His father settled him in business in England and was anxious to detain him at home ; but he came again to tliis country in 1825, officiated for a few months as a local preacher in Philadelphia, and at the ensuing session of the Philadelphia conference in 1826 was admitted into the Methodist ministry. He was transferred to Baltimore in 1833, and was twice chosen chaplain to congress. He preached every Sunday morning in the hall of representatives, and attracted great crowds, among whom were all the prominent states- men of the day, including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. He sailed for England, 11 March, 1841, on the steamship "Presi- dent," which was never lieard.from again. His style of pulpit oratory was nervous, elegant, and richly imaginative.. — His son, Alfred, clergyman, b. in 1828 ; d. in Newark, N. J., 13 Nov., 1871, was educated in the schools of Baltimore and Wash- ington, and under his father's care, and began preaching in Baltimore when only sixteen years old. He afterward joined the Philadelphia con- ference, and held pastorates in Philadelphia, Har- risburg, Wilmington, New York, and other cities. See " Life of Alfred Cookman," by Henry B. Ridgaway (New York, 1871). — Another son, John Emory, b. in Carlisle, Pa., 8 June, 1836 ; d. in New York city, 29 March, 1891. He was graduated in Boston, joined the New York conference in 1861, and spent his ministry mostly in the vicinity of New York, with the exception of three years as pas- tor of Tremont sti'eet church, Boston. He received the degree of D. D. from Illinois Wesleyan uni- versity in 1876. In 1891 he joined the Episcopal church, and was employed in New York city.

COOLEY, Abiel A., inventor, b. in 1782 ; d. in Hartford, Conn., 18 Aug., 1858. He was a phy- sician, and invented improvements in friction- matches, an ingenious shingle-machine, and one of the first power-presses in use. He was also the first to apply the cam-movement to pumps.

COOLEY, Le Roy Clark, chemist, b. in Point Peninsula, N. Y., 7 Oct., 1833. He was graduated at Union in 1858, whei-e he followed a scientific course. From 1801 till 1874 he was professor of natural sciences in the New York state normal school, when he became professor of physics and chemistry in Vassar college. He has devised vari- ous forms of apparatus to facilitate laboratory in- struction in physics and chemistry, and in 1868 invented an electric register by which piano-wires and tuning-forks leave an imprint of their vibra- tions, which was the first successful application of electricity to the purpose of recording swift periodic impulses in permanent characters. Prof. Cooley has contributed frequently to educational and scientific journals, and has published " A Text-Book of Phvs- ics " (New York, 1868) ; " A Text-Book of Chem'is- try " (1869) ; " Easy Experiments in Physical Sci- ence " (1870) ; " Natural Philosophy for High Schools " (1871) ; " Elements of Chemistry for High Schools" (1873); "The Student's Guide- Book and Note-Book " (Poughkeepsie, 1878) ; " The New Text-Book of Physics" (New York, 1880); " The New Text-Book of Chemistry " (1881) ; " The Beginner's Guide to Chemistry " (1886).

COOLEY, Thomas McIntyre, jurist, b. in Attica, N. Y., 6 Jan., 1824; d. in Ann Arbor, Mich., 12 Sept., 1898. He began the study of law, and, removing to Michigan, completed his legal studies at Adrian, where he was admitted to the bar in January, 1846. He practised his profession for the two following years at Tecumseh, after which he settled in Adrian. For a time he edited a newspaper, “The Watch-Tower,” and in 1857 the state senate assigned to him the work of compiling the general statutes of Michigan, which were published in two volumes. In 1858 he was appointed reporter of the supreme court, an office which he retained for seven years, during which time he published eight volumes of reports. In 1859 he was made professor of law in the University of Michigan. In 1864 he was elected a justice of the supreme court of the state to fill a vacancy, and in 1869 was re-elected for the full term of eight years. In 1868-'9 he was chief justice, and in 1885 retired permanently from the bench. In 1881 a School of political science was established in the University of Michigan, and he assumed the professorship of constitutional and administrative law. He long occupied the chair of American history in the University of Michigan, and was lecturer on constitutional law, and dean of the School of political science. He published a “Digest of Michigan Reports” (1866); “The Constitutional Limitations which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union” (Boston, 1868; enlarged ed., 1871); and editions, with copious notes, of Blackstone's “Commentaries”  (1870) and Story's