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736 tory of Boston&rdquo; IV. (1881); and Mrs. Martha B. Amory's &ldquo;Life of J. S. Copley&rdquo; (1882). &mdash; His son, John Singleton, Jr., afterward Baron Lyndhurst, b. in Boston, 21 May, 1772; d. at Tunbridge Wells, England, 11 Oct., 1863. His father attempted to educate him as an artist; but he had no taste for that profession, and is credited with having declared in a fit of childish impatience that coming generations should speak of &ldquo;Copley the father of the lord chancellor, not of Copley the son of the painter.&rdquo; He was graduated with high honor at Cambridge in 1795, and shortly afterward visited the United States with a view to regain his father's property in Boston, which had been sold through a mistake. This he failed to accomplish, but spent some time in this country, visiting Washington at Mount Vernon, and travelling extensively through the northern and middle Atlantic states. Of his experiences he made copious notes and wrote descriptive letters in Latin to the vice-chancellor of Cambridge university. Returning to England in 1798, he was called to the bar in 1804, and entered parliament in 1818. In 1827 he became chancellor, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst, 27 April the same year. He was twice married, but, as he had no male issue, the title lapsed at his death. See Lord John Campbell's &ldquo;Lives of the Lord Chancellors&rdquo; (7 vols., London, 1846-'7); " Select Biographical Sketches," by William Heath Bennet; &ldquo;Life of John Singleton Copley&rdquo; (supra); and &ldquo;Life of Lord Lyndhurst,&rdquo; by Sir Theodore Martin (London, 1883).

COPPÉE, Henry, educator, b. in Savannah, Ga., 13 Oct., 1821; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 22 March, 1895. He spent two years at Yale in the class of 1839, then studied civil engineering, entered the U. S. military academy in 1841, and after graduation in 1845 served as an officer of artillery through the Mexican war, receiving the brevet of captain for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco. He was principal assistant professor of geography, history, and ethics at West Point from 14 Jan., 1850, until 16 May, 1855, and on 30 June, 1855, resigned from the army and became professor of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1866, when he accepted the presidency of Lehigh university at Bethlehem, Pa. In 1875 he exchanged the presidency for the professorship of history. In 1874 Dr. Coppée was appointed one of the regents of the Smithsonian institution, and twice he served on the assay commission of the U. S. mint. In 1864-'6 he edited the &ldquo;United States Service Magazine.&rdquo; He published &ldquo;Elements of Logic&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1857); &ldquo;Gallery of Famous Poets&rdquo; (1858); &ldquo;Elements of Rhetoric&rdquo; (1859); &ldquo;Gallery of Distinguished Poetesses&rdquo; (1860); &ldquo;Select Academic Speaker&rdquo; (1861); &ldquo;Manual of Battalion Drill&rdquo; (1862); &ldquo;Evolutions of the Line&rdquo;(1862); &ldquo;Manual of Court-Martial&rdquo; (1863); &ldquo;Songs of Praise in the Christian Centuries&rdquo; (1864); &ldquo;Life and Services of Gen. U. S. Grant&rdquo; (New York, 1866); a manual of &ldquo;English Literature&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1872); &ldquo;Lectures on English Literature&rdquo; (1872); &ldquo;The Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors&rdquo; (Boston, 1881); and &ldquo;Life of General Thomas,&rdquo; in Great Commanders Series (New York, 1893). He also edited a translation of Marmont's &ldquo;Esprit des institutions militaires&rdquo; (1862), and one of &ldquo;La guerre civile en Amérique&rdquo; by the Comte de Paris.

COPWAY, George, Indian author, b. near Pontiac, Mich., August, 1818; d. there in 1863. His name in the Ojibway, in which tribe he was born, is. He was for many years connected with the press of New York city, and lectured extensively in Europe and the United States. Among his publications are a translation of the &ldquo;Acts of the Apostles&rdquo; into his native language (1838); &ldquo;Recollections of a Forest Life&rdquo; (1847); &ldquo;The Ojibway Conquest,&rdquo; a poem (New York, 1850); &ldquo;Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation&rdquo; (Boston, 1850); &ldquo;Organization of a New Indian Territory&rdquo; (1850); &ldquo;Running Sketches of Men and Places in England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Scotland&rdquo; (New York, 1851); and &ldquo;Indian Life and Indian History&rdquo; (Boston, 1858). See &ldquo;Life, Letters, and Speeches of Ka-ge-ga-gah-bowb&rdquo; (New York, 1850).

CORAM, Thomas, English philanthropist, b. about 1668; d. 29 March, 1751. He was a sailor in early life, rose to be captain of a mei'chantraan, lived several years in Taunton, Mass., where he followed farming and boat-building, returned to England in 1703, and devoted himself to charitable works, especially the establishment of a foundling hospital in London, which, after seventeen years of exertion, was opened on 17 Oct., 1740. He was also a promoter of English settlements in Georgia and Nova Scotia. Having expended his fortune in benevolent enterpi-ises in his old age, he was the recipient of an annuity obtained by subscription. He was instrumental in promoting American com- merce by securing an act of parliament granting a bounty on naval stores of colonial production. At the time of his death he was engaged on a scheme for the education of Indian girls.

CORAS, José Zacarias, sculptor, b. in Puebla, Mexico, in 1752 ; d. there in 1819. His statues of the crucifixion are noted for the profound agony in the face of Christ. The two statues that crown the tower of the JMexican cathedral are his work.

CORBETT, Henry Winslow, senator, b. in Westboro, Mass., 18 Feb., 1827 He accompanied, his parents to Washington county, N. Y., received an academic education, entered a store at Cambridge in 1840, removed to New York city in 1843, and continued in mercantile business there for seven years. In 1850 he shipped a quantity of goods to Portland, Oregon, and the following spring settled in that territory and became a prominent mer- chant, and in 1867 a banker, in Portland. He has held various local offices, and was active in the organization of the republican party in Oregon. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- vention of 1860, and chairman of the state central committee in 1859-'60, and in 1866 was elected U. S. senator, serving from 1867 till 3 March, 1873.

CORBIN, Margaret, patriot, b. about 1750. She was the wife of a soldier, and was wounded by three grape-shot in the shoulder and utterly dis- abled at Fort Washington, 16 Nov., 1776, while she heroically filled the post of her husband, who was killed by her side while serving a piece of artillery. The council of Pennsylvania in 1779 appealed to the board of war in her behalf, and in consequence she received from congress a pension of one half of the monthly pay drawn by a soldier while in service. The board of war, having received further information in 1780 that her wound deprived her of the use of one arm, recommended that she re- ceive annually " one compleat suit of cloaths ou-t of the public stores, or the value thereof in money," in addition to the provision previously made.

CORBIN, Thomas Grosrenor, naval officer, b. in Virginia, 13 Aug., 1820. He was appointed a midshipman, 15 May, 1838, served on the coast survey and in the Brazilian and Pacific squadrons, was commissioned lieutenant, 10 June, 1852, and employed in the survey of the river Plata during 1853-'5. He was attached to the steamer "Wa-