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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Lewis, statesman, soldier, author, governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 9, 1782, in Exeter, N.H. In 1814-31 he governor of the territory of Michigan. He Cass,

was a statesman of Michigan; and in 183137 he was secretary of

fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses as a republican. Cassel, Abraham Harley, educator, antiquarian, author, was born Sept. 21, 1820, in Kulpsville, Pa. He was a school teacher;

was engaged in merwork; and became a very successful farmer. He was the cantile

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in Jackson's administration. In 1813 he attained the rank of brigadier-general in the army. He was ambassador to France and a democratic candidate for president in 1845. In 1854-57 he was United States senator; and in 1857-60 he was secretary of state. He was the author of Inquiries Concerning the History, Traditions and Languages of the Indians in the United States; and France, its King, Court, and Government, 1840. He died June 17, 1866, in Detroit, Mich.

Cass, Thomas, soldier, was born in 1822 in Ireland. He engaged in the real estate and brokerage business in Boston, Mass. He was colonel of the ninth regiment Massachusetts volunteers in the civil war. He died July 1, 1862, on the battlefield of Malvern Hill. monument was erected to his honor in the Public Garden of Boston, Mass.

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Cassady,

J.

E.,

lawyer, statesman, was

1859, in Roane county, Tenn. He received his education in the public schools; and at the Grant university of Athens. For eight years he was clerk of the circuit court; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Tennessee state legislature in the fifth general assembly.

born July

Cassatt, president,

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Alexander

Johnston,

railroad 1839, in Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1885 he has been president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad; and in 1899 was elected president of the Pennsylvania railroad.

was born Dec.

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Cassedy, George, congressman, was born 14, 1784 in Bergen county, N.J. In 182137 he was a representative from New Jersey to the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. He died Dec. 31, 1842, in

May

Hackensack, N.J. Cassel, Flora H., temperance worker, author, poet. She is the author of White Ribbon Vibrations, a volume of poems.

Henry Burd, lumberman,

congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1855, in Marietta, Pa. He became sole proprietor of his father's lumber business in Marietta, Pa. In 18981902 he was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. He is president of the Lancaster and Marietta turnpike road company; and treasurer and director in the Pennsylvania electric company and other concerns. In 1901-09 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth. 37 Cassel,

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founder of Cassel library, which consists of fifty thousand valuable books and documents. He presented at least twenty-eight

thousand books and documents to the Bre-

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and

thren's collegiate institute of Mount Morcontributed to the historical

society of Pennsylvania about three thousand books and papers relating to the early history of that state. He died April 23, 1908 in Harleysville, Pa. Casserly, Eugene; lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born in 1822, in Ireland. He removed to California in 1850; and identified himself with the press of San Francisco. In 1869-75 he was a United States senator from California. He died June 14, 1883, in San Francisco, Cal. Cassidy, Ambrose Spencer, soldier, was

born in New York. In 1861 he was first lieutenant in the eighty -fourth regiment New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died May 6, 1889. Cassidy, George Williams, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born April 25, 1836, in Bourbon county, Ky. He became a journalist; and settled in Nevada. He was a state senator in 1872-80; and president of the senate in 1879. Iil 1881-85 he was a representative from Nevada to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. He died June 24, 1892, in Eureka, Nevada. Cassidy, P. Orrin, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born July 20, 1846, in Canada. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar; and the same year was elected prosecuting attorney for Wood county. Wis. In 1875 he moved to Iowa, and there practiced law for twelve years. In 1893 he was appointed judge of the superior court of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Cassidy, Patrick S.,journalist, author, poet,

was born Oct. 31, 1850, in Ireland. In 1868-78 he was connected with the Associated Press and since 1881 he has been regularly connected with the Sunday Mercury of New York City. He is the author pf Glenough, or the Victims of Vengeance. Cassidy, William, journalist, was born Aug. 12, 1815, in Albany, N.Y. The celebrated anti-slavery plank that was read and defeated at the Herkimer convention was from his pen. In 1867 he was elected