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Cairns, Anna Sneed, educator, fdunder, college president, was born March 19, 1841, in New Albany, Ind. In 1861 she founded and has since become president of the Forest Park university of St. Louis, Mo. She carried on a prohibition campaign for seven years which resulted in th& Missouri house of representatives voting to submit a constitutional amendment to the people prohibiting the manufacture, sale and importation of alcoholic and fementing liquors. Cairns, William B., educator, author, was born June 4, 1867, in Ellsworth, Wis. In 1893-1900 he was an instructor and since 1901 a professor in the department of English in the university of Wisconsin. He is the author of On the Development of American Literature; Forms of Discourse; and Introduction to Rhetoric. Cajori, Florian, educator, mathematician, author, was born Feb. 28, 1859, in Switzerland. He graduated from the university of

Wisconsin; and studied mathematics and physics in the Johns Hopkins university. Since 1898 he has been professor of mathematics; and since 1903 dean of the engineering school of Colorado college. He is the author of The

Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States; A History of Mathematics; A History of Elementary Mathematics; A History of Physics; Theory of Equations; A History of the Slide Rule; and other works. Cake, Henry L., soldier, congressman, was bom Oct. 6, 1827, in Northumberland, Pa. He

was

elected brigadier-general of militia in 1854; and arrived in Washington in 1861 in command of the first five hundred soldiers enlisted to put down the rebellion and was quartered in the capitol twenty-four hours before any other volunteers had arrived. He was twice a candidate for the Pennsylvania state senate. In 1867-71 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortieth and

forty-first congresses.

Cake, Thomas, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1747, in Brecon, South Wales. In 1788-89 and 1792-93 he went to the West Indies, where he established his first mission; and in 1803 established a mission in Gibraltar. He was the author of A History of the West Indies; History of the Bible; and The Preacher's Manual. He died May 2, 1814, at sea.

Calder, Alexander Stirling, artist, sculptor, in 1870 in Philadelphia, Pa. His principal works are statute of Professor Gross at Washington, D.C.; and six statues on Witterspon building at Philadelphia, Pa. Calder, William M., contractor, builder, congressman, was born March 3, 1869, in Brooklyn. N.Y. He has built more than one thousand houses in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1903-

was born

11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-firsi congresses as a republican. Calderhead, William Alexander, soldier lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1844, in Perry county, Ohio. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in company H, one hundred and twenty-sixth regiment Ohio infantry; was transferred to company D, ninth veteran reserves for disability incurred in the service; and discharged in 1865. In 1872 he settled on a homestead near Newton, Kan.; and taught school one year in Newton. He was county attorney in 1888-92. In 1895-97 and 1899-J.911 he was representative from Kansas to the fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fiftyeighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Calderon, Manuel Alvarez, lawyer, educator, diplomat, was born June 2, 1852, in Lima, Peru. He received his preparatory education in the English college of Lima; and graduated from the Lima university at San Marcos, from which institution he received the degrees of LL.B. and LL.D. He has been professor of law and social sciences, and professor of economics and finance at the university of San Marcos. In 1875 he was secretary of the commission of finance at Paris; and secretary of legation at Washington in 1882. He was counsel before the arbitration tribunals at Berne and Santiago and of Chili; and a delegate of Peru to the second Pan-American congress. Since 1900 he has been minister plenipotentiary of Peru at Washington, D.C. Calderwood, Willis Greenleaf, educator, lecturer, author, was born July 25, 1866, in

Dodge county. Wis. In 1866 he graduated from Wesleyan methodist

seminary of MinIn 1887-93 he

nesota.

was a teacher public

and

in the private

schools. Since 1898 he has been secretary of the Minnesota prohibi-

tion since

committee 1904 has



and also

been secretary of the national prohibition committee. He is president of the Minnesota civic reform association; and prominent in reform movements in the state of Minnesota. He is the author of Manual of Politics. Caldwell, Alexander, lawyer, jurist. He was for several years United States district judge for the western district of Virginia. He died April 8, 1839, in Wheeling, W.Va. Caldwell, Alexander, soldier, banker. United States senator, was born March 1, 1830, in Huntington county. Pa. He enlisted in 1847 as a soldier in the Mexican war, entering his father's company, who was killed at one of the gates of the city of Mexico. He went in 1861 to Kansas, where he engaged in the transportation of military supplies to the various posts on the plains; and was