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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. who spent many years among the Indians. He was the author of Notes of Eight Years in

Europe;

Illustrations of the Manners, of the North American Indians; Notes for the Emigrant to America; Life Among the Indians, a Book for Youth; The Breath of Life, or Mal-Eespiration and its Effects; Last Rambles Among the Indians of the Rocky Mountians and The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America. He died Dec. 23, 1872, in Jersey City, N.J. Catlin, George Lynde, journalist, diplomat, author, was born in 1840 on Staten Island, N.Y. He was consul at Limoges, Stuttgart and Zurich. He was the author of Bilbigheim, a story; The Presidential Campaign of 1896; Titbits for Travelers; and the Postilion of Nagold, and other Poems. He died

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1898 in New York. Catlin, George S., lawyer. Jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1809, in Harwington, in

Conn. In 1843-45 he was a representative to the twenty-eighth congress. He was a number of years in the Connecticut state legislature; and was judge of the Windham county court. He died December 26, 1851, in

Windham

county. Conn.

Catlin, Henry Guy, soldier, mining engineer, writer, author, was bom July 21, 1843, in Burlington, Vt.

He

served during the civil Vermont volunteers. Since 1870 he has been engaged in mining. He is the author of Yellow Pine Basin. Catlin, Isaac Swartwood, soldier, was bom in New York. In 1861 he was a captain in the third regiment New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He received a medal of honor for his bravery in the mine explosion in 1864 at Petersburg, Va. Catlin, Louise Ensign, litterateur, author, was born May 9, 1861, in Lockport, N.Y. She is the author of Marjory and Her Neigh-

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in the twelfth regiment

bors.

Canton, John Dean, farmer, lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 19, 1812, in Monroe, N.Y. In 1833 he settled in Chicago, 111., and had to go three hundred miles on horseback to Mt. Vernon to gain admittance to practice law. In 1839

he was engaged in farming in Plainfield, In 1843 he was appointed judge of the 111.

state supreme court. Prior to 1849 he served in the Illinois state legislature. Illinois

In 1849-64 he again served on the supreme bench; and for six years was chief justice. He constructed the Illinois and Mississippi telegraph lines. He was president of the Illinois starch factory at Ottawa, 111. He was the author of A Sum-

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Norway; and Antelope and Deer

America.

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of died July 30, 1895, in Chicago,

111.

Cato, Sterling G., lawyer, jurist, was born He removed to Alabama, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Kansas. Caton, Richard, merchant, geologist, founder, was born in England in 1763. He became a merchant in Baltimore; and in 1790 entered into an association for the manufacture of cotton. He was one of the founders in 1795 of the library company, whose collection was merged in the library of the Maryland historical society. He died May 19, 1845, in Baltimore, Md. Catron, John, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1786 in Wythe county, Va. In 1818 he moved to Nashville, Tenn. ; and soon attained high rank as a chancery lawyer. In 1824 he was appointed one of the judges of the supreme court of the state; and in 1837-65 was an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died May 30, 1865, in Nashville, Tenn. Catron, Thomas Benton, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1840, in Lafayette county. Mo. He has served as district attorney; and was United States attorney for New Mexico. He was four times a member of the New Mexico legislature. In 1895-97 he was a territorial delegate from New Mexico to the fifty-fourth congress. Catt, George William, civil engineer, business president, was born March 9, 1860, in Davenport, Iowa. In 1887-92 he was chief engineer of the San Francisco bridge company; and in 1893-99 was president and engineer of the New York dredging company. In 1899 he became president and engineer of the Atlantic Gulf and pacific company. He died in 1905 in New York City. Cattell, Alexander Gilmore, merchant, United States senator, was born Feb. 13, 1816, in Salem, N.J. In 1840 he was elected to the New Jersey state legislature. In 1846 he settled in Philadelphia as a merchant; became a director in the Mechanics' bank; and was elected to the city council in 185054. In 1858 he organized the Corn Exchange bank; and was president of the same. In 186-71 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy. He died April 8, 1894, in Jamesin Georgia.

town, N.Y. Cattell, Henry Ware, physician, editor, author, was born Oct. 7, 1862, in Harrisburg,

Pa. In 1887 he graduated from the medical department of the university of Pennsylva-

In 1894-97 he edited the International Medical Magazine; in 1900-03 edited International Clinics; and now edits Medical Notes and Queries. He is the American editor of Ziegler's Special Pathology; and the author of Post-Mortem Pathology. Cattell, James McKeen, educator, psychologist, author, was born May 25, 1860, in Easton, Pa. In 1880 he graduated from Lania.