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grasshoppers in the central California.

He

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tablished colonies of lady-birds to free the orcJiards of the cotteny cushion scale. He is a fellow of the American association for the

advancement of science. Coram, Thomas, philanthropist, was born in 1668 in England. He owned a considerable tract of land in Taunton, Mass., and in 1703 gave to the Taunton authorities fifty -nine acres of land as the site for a church or school house. He greatly promotes American commerce by securing an act of parliament granting a bounty on naval stores of coloniai production. He died March 29, 1871.

Coray, George Q., educator, librarian, was born in November, 1857, in Provo, Utah. He a graduate of Cornell college. He is librarian of the university of Utah at Salt is

Lake

City. Corbett,

Henry Winslow, merchant, bankUnited States senator, was born Feb. 18, 1S27, in ^A'estborough, Mass. While successful as a merchant he "~"
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also engaged in steam iss::' transportation; and he was at one time mail er,

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contractor between the Oregon and California overland, stocking the road is 1866 »ith Concord coaches for seven hundred forty and miles. His contract with the government amounted to one hundred and seventy-five

thousand dollars per year. He is now one of the largest owners of improved property in Portland, Ore.; and pays taxes on about one million dollars worth of realty. In 1867-73 he was United States senator. He was president of the Security savings and trust company, and of the First national bank. He died in 1903 in Portland, Ore. Corbett, Lee Cleveland, horticulturist, scientist, was born Oct. 31, 1867, in Watkins, N.Y. In 1895-1901 he was a professor of horticulture and forestry in the Dakota agricultural college; and since 1901 has been agriculturist for the United States department of agriculture. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. Corbin, Austin, banker, railroad president, financier, was born July 11, 1827, in Newport, N.H. He was president of the Long Island railroad; the Elmira, Cortland and northern railroad; the Manhattan beach

company, the Manhattan beach hotel and land company and the New York and Rockaway beach railway. He died June 4, 1896, in Newport, N.H.

Calvin Rich, merchant, founder, 12, 1833, in Dudley, Mass. Since 1857 he has been a resident of Chicago, 111.; engaged in the tea and coflfee business; and is now senior member of Corbin, sons and company, wholesale grocers. Corbin,

was born Feb.

Mrs.

Caroline Fairfield, author, 1855, in Pomfret, Conn. She has been president of the Illinois association, opposed to the extension of suffrage to women. She is the author of Rebecca; His Marriage Vow; Belle and the Boys; and Corbin,

was born Nov.

A

9,

Woman's Philosophy

of Love, a psycho-

logical treatise.

Corbin, D. C, railroad president,

was bom

in 1837 in New Hampshire. He is president of the Spokane Falls and Northern railway; and also president of the Nelson and Fort

Sheppard railway. Corbin, Henry Clark, soldier, was bom Sept. 15, 1842, in Clermont county, Ohio. He was the adjutant at the inauguration of Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison and Mcliinley. He headed the remarkable procession of the centennial at New York in 1889; and has been the marshal in other great affairs of that kind. He entered the army as a volunteer; and subsquently was an officer in the regular army. He has always, since the time of Lincoln, been very near the person of the president. He was adjutant to President McKinley in the president's capacity as commander-in-chief of the army. In 1898 he was made brigadier -general and appointed adjutant general of the army; and in 1900 be-

came major-general. Corbin, Horace, lawyer, jurist, state sen-

May

ator, was born 21, 1827, in Tioga county, Ind. He was elected prosecuting attorney; and in 1862 he

was

chosen

state senate,

to

the

where he

served four sessions. In 1873, when Ply-

mouth

first became a he was elected its mayor. He was judge of the circuit

city,

court in 1875-76, filling the office with credit to himself and the satisfaction of the district, until the fall of 1870, when he was named by the democratic party for the same position. He died in 1899 in Plymouth, Ind.

was born May 2, some years he was dramatic critic on Harper's Weekly. He is the author of The Elizabethan Hamlet; Schoolboy Life in England; and An American at Oxford. Corbin, John, author, 1870, in Chicago, 111. I?or

Corbin, Joseph Carter, educator, college president, was born March 36, 1833, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He graduated in 1853 from the Ohio University. He has been state superintendent of education of Arkansas; and for thirty years was president of the branch normal college of Pine Bluff, Ark. He is a prominent member of the masonic order, of which he was grand secretary for thirty years. He is now principal of Merrill public school of Pine Bluff, Ark.