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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Cavander, John Smith, soldier, was born New Hampshire. In 1861 he was a captain in the iirst regiment, Missouri artillery; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general in

of volunteers.

He

died Feb. 23, 1886.

Cavaness, James M., journalist, lecturer, poet, was born March 29, 1842, in Monrovia, Ind. He received his education at the Baker university; and at the graduation he received the degree of A.B.; and three years later received the degree of A.M. In 1866-67 he

Cawein, Madison Julius, author, poet, was born March 23, 1865, in Louisville, Ky. He graduated from the Louisville high school; and for several years was an expert accountant in his native city. He is a contributor to the leading magazines and periodof the United States; and his poems are very musical, and show much individuality. He is the author of Days and Dreams; icals

was principal of the city schools at Butler, Mo.; and later at Paola,

Kan.

For twen-

ty-five years he was editor and proprietor of the Advance of

Chetopa, Kan.; and is now editor ot the Daily Tribune of Chanute, Kan. He is the author of a volume of Poems. Caverly, Abiel Moses, physician, author, was born in 1817 in Vermont. He was a physician of Pittsburg, Vt. He is the author of A History of Pittsburg, Vt. He died in 1879, in Pittsburg, Vt. Caverly, Robert Boodey, lawyer, historian, author, poet, was born on July 19, 1806, in Straii'ord, N.H. He attended the schools of his native town at

Pembroke academy, and in 1837 graduated from Harvard university.

When

quite

young he held the fice

of-

of colonel in the

major-general

staff;

and was inspector of the New Hampshire militia. In his er days he

Moods and Memories; Intimations

Poems

lads;

The Voice; Hannah Duston and

Wars

New

In-

England; Indian Wars of New England and John Eliot; History of Barnstead; The Caverly Annals; The Boodey Annals and several other interesting books. He died Oct. 20, 1887, in Lowell, Mass. Cayvan, Georgia Kva, actress, was born in 1858, in Bath, Maine. She attained a national reputation as a noted actress. She died Nov. 19, 1906, in Chicago, 111. dian



of

the

of





Cawein, in

five

volumes.

Caziaic, Louis Vasmar, soldier, was bom July 4, 1844, in Boston, Mass. He was retired in 1906 as brigadier-general in the United States army, after over forty years of service. Cecil, Elizabeth Frances, author, poet, was born in Virginia. She is the author of Industrial Heroes; Literary Salons; Popular Suffrage in Literature; and some fugitive verses. Cesnola, Louis Pahni Di, soldier, diplomat, was born June 29, 1833, in Turin, Italy. In 1848 he took part in the Italian war against Austria; and was promoted to second lieutenant on the field at Novara in 1849. He

graduated military

from the academy at

Cheraseo; fought in the Crimean war; and emigrated to America in 1860. He served in the civil war; and was sent as United States consul Cyprus, to

school; and he subsequently practiced law



of

Nature and Love; Red Leaves and Roses; The Garden of Dreams; Undertones; Shapes and Shadows; Idyllic Monologues Myth and Romance Kentucky Poems; Weeds by the Wall; A Voice on the Wind; The Vale of Tempe; Nature Notes and Impressions; and Poems of Madison Beautiful;

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in the courts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and in the District of Columbia; and in 1857 served as city solicitor of Lowell, Mass. He was instrumental in erecting a monument to the memory of Hannah Duston on Contoocook Island, in the Merrimac river, near Fisherville, N.H.; and also urged the erection of stones to the unmarked soldiers' graves in the cemetery in Lowell. He was the author of The Merrimack, in two volumes; Caverly's Poems, in two volumes Poems, Epics, Lyrics and Bal-

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where he remained for eleven years. On his return to America the. consulate-general of Havana was offered him, but he abandoned the consul service and accepted the appointment as director of the Metropolitan museum of art of New York City, a place which he has occupied ever since with distinction. He is the author -

of Cyprus, Its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other works. Died 1904 in New York City. Cessna, Howard, lawyer, educator, genealogist, was born Oct. 27, 1870, near Rains;

burg, Pa.

He was

assistant principal of the

Masonic academy of Clifton, Tenn. He has practiced law since 1894; and is how engaged in editing the Family Genealogy of the House of Cessna.