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received a liberal education and afterward practiced law in Fort Wayne, Ind. In 185761 he was a representative from Indiana to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. Case, Charles Clinton, musician, conductor, composer, was born June 6, 1843, in Linesvillo. Pa. He was educated at the Gustavus academy of Ohio; and received his musical education in the normal schools of Chicago, Ohio and Indiana. He has been a conductor of music in churches in Chicago and various cities ; and, is now a successful choir conductor in Chautauqua assembly work. He is the author of The Harvest of Song; Church Anthems; Our Song World; Uplifting Songs; Choice Songs; and other works. Case, Elisha W., manufacturer, founder, 3, 1833, in Norwich, Conn. In 1854 he established the Connecticut pie bakery in Chicago, 111. In 1866-91 this business was known as Case and Martin; and is now the Case and Martin company, of which he is president. Case, Henry, soldier, was born in Illinois. In 1861 he was first lieutenant in the fourteenth regiment Illinois infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of voluntce]-s. He died March 12, 1884. Case, Jerome I., manufacturer, founder, was born Dec. 11, 1819, in Williamstown,

was born Jan.

N.Y. The Case greaj; and prosperous works now occupy forty acres of ground ,and have an output of two million dollars Vorth of machines a year. In 1880 the business was incorporated as the J. I. Case threshing machine company, with a capital of one mil;

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died Dec. 32, 1891, in Ra-

Wis. Verne,

educator, lecturer, scientist, was born Oct. 1, 1876, in Cohocton, N.Y. He was educated at the Atlanta high school, at ivaples academy, at the Geneseo normal, and at the New York Columbia universities. He is superintendent of the Tarrytown schools of New York; lecturer on science in the state school for teachers at Cliff Haven, N.Y. and chairman of the physics section of the New York state science association. He discovered mineral crytolite in Westchester county, N.Y. He is a member of the national geographical society, the chemistry club and also of the physics club of New York City. He is generalissmo of Westchester eommandary, number fortytwo; and is first lieutenant of the Knights templar battalion of New York City. Case, Leonard, philanthropist, author, was born June 27, 1820, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1843 he began the practice of law in Cleveland. He endowed the Case library association with twenty thousand dollars; and donated land to Cleveland orphan asylum and the home of the industrial aid society; and established the Case school of applied science. He was the author of Treasure Trove. He died Jan. 6, 1880, in Cleveland, Ohio. Case,

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Case, Leonard, lawyer, banker, was born July 29, 1786, in Westmoreland, Pa. In 180918 he was justice of the peace in Trumbull county, Ohio; and in 1814 was admitted to the practice of law. In 1832 he became president of the commercial bank of Lake Erie in aeveland, Ohio. He died Dee. 7, 1864, in Cleveland, Ohio. Case, Mrs. Marietta Stanley, poet, was born Aug. 22, 1845, in Thompson, Conn. She Puritan is the daughter of a clergyman of and revolutionary ancestry; and she is regent of the Daughters of the American revolution. She has also held various offices in home and foreign mis-

sionary work. Her very best poems are entitled The Waning Cen-

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and Amorpatioe,

the latter being written for the daughters of the American revolution. She was one of the Connecticut women authors given creditable mention at the Atlanta exposition. She is the wife of A. Willard Case, a prominent paper manufacturer of South Manchester, Conn. Case, Mary Emily, educator, author, was born in 1857 in New York. Since 1883 she has been a professor of latin at Wells college of Aurora, N.Y. She is the author of The Lore of the World. Case, Theodore Spencer, soldier, physician, journalist, was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Jackson, Ga. In 1860-61 he edited the Medical

Review of Kansas City, Mo. He became second lieutenant of the twenty-fifth Missouri infantry in 1861; later was captain and assistant quartermaster; and in 1865 was made colonel and quartermaster general of Missouri. In 1866-68 he was curator of the university of Missouri of Missouri. In 1873-85 he was postmaster of Kansas City; and in 1885 became professor of chemistry in Kansas City medical college. He edited the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry 1877-85; and in 1886 became president of the Kansas City real estate and stock exchange. He died in 1900 in Kansas City, Mo. Case, Walter, congressman, was born in Dutchess county, N.Y. In 1819-21 he was a representative from New York to the sixteenth congress. He died in Newburgh, N.Y. Case, William, educator, missionary, was born Aug. 27, 1780, in Swansea, Mass. In 1810-27 he was presiding elder in northern and western New York and in Canada. In 1837-51 he was in charge of the native Wesleyan industrial school at Alnwick. He died Oct. 19, 1855, in Canada. Case, William Scoville, lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1863 in Connecticut. He is a jurist of Hartford, Conn. He is the author of Forward Plouse.