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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Cary, Elizabeth Luther, translator, author, in 1867 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She translated several works. She is the author of Alfred Tennyson, His Home, His Friends

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and His Work; Robert Browning, Poet and Man; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet and Thinker; and other works. Cary, George, designer, architect, was born 3 859 in Buffalo, N.Y. Since 1889 he was practiced architecture in Buffalo, N.Y. He was architect of the Buffalo general hospital and university of Buffalo; and of the dental college, the Gratwick research laboratory, the New York state building and the administration building of New York City. Cary, George B., congressman, was born in 1811 near Petersburg, Va. In 1841-43 he was ii representative from Virginia to the twenty-seventh congress. He died March 5, 1850, in Bethlehem, Va. Cary, George Lovell, educator, theologian, college president, author, was born May 10, 1830, in Medway, Mass. He received his education at the Williston seminary of Easthampton, Mass.; at

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Leicester

academy of

Massachusetts ; and at

Harvard

college.

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has been professor in

Antioch college ; and in 1862-1902 filled the of new testaliterature at the Meadville theological seminary, of which institution he was also

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president in 1890-1902; and is now professor emeritus. He is the author of Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament; and The Synoptic Gospels; several Monographs-, and valuable contributions to various religious and educational publications. Cary, Jeremiah E., lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1803, in Coventry, R.I. In 1829 he began the practice of law; and in 1843-45 he was a representative from New York to' the twenty-eighth congress as A democrat. He returned to his practice of

law

in

New York

City.

Cary, Phoebe, author, poet, was born Sept. 4, 1824, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father moved from Vermont shortly before her birth. _. She and her sister

wrote

Alice of

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number

exquisite poems; and her writings were very popu-

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She was the author of Poems and Parodies Posms of Faith, Hope,

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Cary, Joseph Clinton, manufacturer, invenwas born Oct. 13, 1828, in Alexander, N.y. He built two steam fire-engines about 1860, to which his father's pump was applied, for use in New York City. He was the originator of the cross-town railroad running from Christopher street ferry to the East river at Twenty-third street. He died Aug. 7, 1884, in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Cary, Joseph M., lawyer, jurist. He was a judge of one of the United States territorial courts prior to 1884. Cary, Richard Miles, merchant, banker, was born May 19, 1861, in Isle of Wight county, Va. He received a thorough education under the guidance of his father, Professor R. M. Cary. He is a successful business man of Pensacola, Fla.; president of Cary and company, coal merchants; vice-president of the People's- bank of Pensacola; and secretary of the Pensacola home and savings association. He has been cashier and paymaster of the Pensacola and Alabama and Tennessee railroad company; and auditor and secretary of the corporation. He is colonel and inspector-general on the staff of the Florida national guard. Cary, Samuel Fenton, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1867-69 he was a. representative from Ohio to the fortieth congress; and was the only member of his party who voted against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. He died in 1900 in Cincinnati, tor,

Ohio.

Cary, Shepard, merchant, farmer, congress-

man. He was a member of the Maine state legislature in 1833-33, in 1839-42, in 1843, and in 1848-54. In 1843-45 he was a repre-

sentative congress.

from Maine to the twenty-eighth

He

died in August, 1866, in Maine.

Cary, Trumbull, soldier, legislator, banker, was born Aug. 11, 1787, in Mansfield, Conn. For thirty years he was engaged in mercantile work in Batavia; N. Y. He was adjutant in the war of 1813; was elected to the New York state assembly; served as state senator; and was the founder of the Bank of Genesee. He died June 20, 1869, in Genesee, N.Y. Cary, William Joseph, telegrapher, congressman, was born March 23, 1865, in Milwaukee, Wis. Since 1879 he has been a telegrapher. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the sixtieth and sixty-first congress as a republican. Case, Augustus Ludlow, naval officer, was born Feb. 3, 1813, in Newburg, N.Y. He was made commodore in 1867; and was promoted to rear-admiral in 1872. In 1874 he commanded the combined European, North Atlantic and South Atlantic fleets assembled at Key West at the time the Virginius difficulties with Spain. In 1875 he was placed on the retired list. He died Feb. 17, 1893, in

Washington, D.C

.

Case, Charles, lawyer, congressman, born Dec. 21, 1817, in Austinburg, Ohio.

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