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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Carr, Julian Shakespeare, soldier, manufacturer, banker, philanthropist, was born Oct. 13, 1845, in Chapel Hill, N.C. He graduated from the university of North Carolina, of which institution he is a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Trinity college; and he is a member of the board of directors of the Oxford asylum. In 188391 he was a delegate from the state at large to the democratic national conventions. He was a delegate to the ecumenical conference of the methodism of the world held in London; and was a delegate to the Robert Raikes centennial. He is the president of the following companies: Blackwell's Durham tobacco company First national bank of Durham; Golden belt manufacturing company; and the Greensboro female college association. He served in the confederate army in Barringer's brigade, Hampton's corps, in the army of Northern

Virginia. Carr, Lucien, archaeologist, author, was born in 1829 is Missouri. He was curator of

the Peabody museum 1876-94. He is the author of The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; and Missouri, a Brief History of the State; and Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky. Carr, Nathan T., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was bom Dec. 25, 1833, in Steuben county, N.Y. In 1858 he was elected a representative in the Michigan state legislature. He entered the union army in 1861 as first lieutenant. In 1863 he moved to Indiana. In 1875-77 he was a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress to All a vacancy. Carr, Robert V., journalist, poet, was born July 15, 1877, in Chenoa, 111. He received his education at the South Dakota School of Mines. He learned the printing business and is a successful journalist of Rapid City, S.D. He is the author of numerous poems of merit; and is familiarly known as the Black Hills Poet. Carr, William Brown, educator, college president, author, was born Feb. 4, 1820, in Leesburg, Va. In 1841-92 he was engaged in educational work as professor and president in various schools and colleges; and was president of Petersburg female college. He is the author of Carr's Plan with English Syntax; and The Genealogy of the Carrs. Carr, William J., lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 10, 1863, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1884 he began the practice of law in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1891-93 he was clerk in the superior court

Kings county; and in 1895-96 was commissioner in the United States circuit court of Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1898-1902 he was asof

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York; and since 1907 he has been justice of the supreme court of New York for the term ending in 1920. Carrell, Cbiu&ba, mother superior, founder, was born in 1810, in Ireland. She founded the hospital of St. Mary and Elizabeth in Louisville, La. She died in 1878 in Louisville, Ky. Carrell, George Aloysius, clergyman, bishop, was born in 1803 in Philadelphia, Pa. He performed missionary duty in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware; and in 1851-53 was president of the Purcell mansion college of Cincinnati, Ohio. On the erection of the eastern portion of Kentucky into the see of Covington in 1853 he was made bishop. He died in 1868 in Covington, Ky. Carrere, Jphn Merven, designer, architect, was born Nov. 9, 1858, of American parents, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His firm were architects of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels of St. Augustine, Fla. He is now archiYork public library. tect for the

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Augustus Stiles, educator, man, author, was born Dec. 30, 1857,

clergyin Ripley, N.Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Chicago ; and instructor and professor of Hebrew in the McCormick theological seminary since 1887. He is the author of The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies. Carrigain, Philip, lawyer, surveyor, was born Feb. 20, 1772, in Concord, N.H. He was secretary of state of New Hampshire four years; and also clerk of the state senate. He surveyed a great part of the state, of which he published an excellent map in 1816; and was the first to apply to New Hampshire the name of the granite state. He died March 16, 1842, in Concord, N.H. Carrier,

Carrington, Edward, soldier, congressman,

was born Feb. 11, 1749, in Charlotte county, Va. He was an' efficient officer during the revolution. In 1785-86 he was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress. He was foreman of the jury which tried Aaron Burr for treason. He died Oct. 28, 1810, in Richmond, Va. Carrington, Hereward H. L., scientist, author, was born in 1880 in England. He was educatpd in the scientific schools of London and Kent, England; and came to the United States in 1899. For a while he was editor of Street and Smith's novels. He is a member of the American institute for scientific research; and a member of the society for psychical research of London. He is the author of The Physical Phenomena of Spiritual-

ism; Vitality; Fasting and Nutrition; and The Coming Science. He is also a contributor to journals on scientific and psychical subjects.