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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Corbusier, William Henry, physician, surgeon, ethnologisl,, was born April 10, 1844, in New York City. He graduated in medicine from the Bellevue hospital medical college. During the civil

war he served

in the field as acting as-

sistant surgeon in the

United States army; and was in the Philippines during all the Spanish-American war and Philippine insurrection. While doing duty on the frontier he wrote vocabularies of the

her husband, who was killed by her side Avhile serving a piece of artillery. She received from congress a pension of one half of the monthly pay drawn by a soldier while in service.

Corcoran, Michael, soldier, was born Sept. 1S:.'7, in Ireland. In 1861 he was a colonel of the sixty-ninlh regiment. He built Fort Corcoran on Arlington Heights and fought in the battle of Bull Ran. He organized the Corcoran 2],


 * Mich.

As chaplain

of a New York cavalrj' regiment he left for the army of

the Potomac. He was through ilcClellan's campaign on the pen-

and was afterwards commanded by Burnside, Hooker, by ileade and Grant. In insula,

1866 he was made president and local superior at Notre Dame. In 1872-77 he was the pastor at Walertown, is; and in 1877 was chosen president of Notre Dame for a second time.

John William, lawyer, jurist, public official, was born June 14, 1853, in Corcoran,

Batavia, N.Y.

He has been

judge of the superior court and judge advocate general. For twenty-two years he lias been a member of the Clinton school committee, serving fifteen years as chair.

man. He was city licitor

of Clinton

so-

for

(en years; water commissioner, secretary, treasurer and chairman for fifteen years;

and was chairman ot Masoachuoelts board of managers at the World's Columbian exposition. He died in 1904 in Clinton, Mass. Corbin, Margaret, patriot, was born about 1750. She was the wife of a soldier, and was wounded by three grape-shot in the shoulder and utterly disabled at Fort Washington in 1776, while she heroically filled the post of tile

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took

.ansemond river and Suffolk and held the advance of the enemy

dialects of the Yurna language; discovered several winter counts, counts back, or calendars among the

troit,

which

legion;

part in the battles of

Mojave and Yavapai

Dakotas; and sludied the symbols, pictograjjhs and sign language of the North American Indians. Colby, William, educator, clerpyman, college president, was born Oct. 2, ]s;',,1, in De-

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in check. In 1863 the legion was attached to the army of the Poto-

mac.

He was made

brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Dec. 2.'^, ISOn, near Sawyer's Station, Va.

Corcoran, William Wilson, banker, philanwas born Deo. 27, 1798, in Georgetown, D.C. The state department selected him as its financial agent in 1841; and in 1842 George W. Eiggs and he founded the afterward famous banking house of Corcoran and Riggs, which rose into prominence through sales of government bonds at the time of the Mexican war and later. He earned the title of philanthropist by numberless gifts, which amounted during his lifetime to about four million dollars. He died Feb. 24, 1888, in Washington, D.C. Cordley, Richard, clergyman, was bom on thropist,

Sept.

6,

1829, in Nottingham, England. He from Michigan university and at Andover theological

graduated

seminary.

moved

to

In 1857 he

Kansas and

preached his first sermon as pastor of the Plymouth church of Lawrence, which position filled for he eighteen years. In 1R75-78 he was pastor of the congregational church of Flint, Mich. in 1878-84 was pastor of the congregational church of Emporia, Kan. when he again became pastor for the second time of the Plymouth church of Lawrence, Kan. During all the busy years of his ministry he has been a frequent and valued correspondent of the religious press. He is often called the Nugget Preacher, because his short and original sermons teem with golden nuggets of thought. Cordova, Alfred De, stock broker, was born Aug. 19, 1848, in Jamaica. First a broker in petroleum, he purchased a seat in the stock exchange of New York City in