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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. rejoined the army, and continued with it till 1781. He died June 13, 1823, in Somers, N.Y. Cornelius, Ellas, educator, missionary, author, was born July 31, 1794, in Somers, N. Y. He was a missionary to the Cherokee Indians in 1818; and in 1819-26 was pastor of the Tabernacle church at Salero, Mass. He was the author of The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative. He died Feb. 13, 1832, in Hartford, Conn. Cornelius, Mrs. Mary Ann, philanthropist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1827, in Pontiac, Mich. She was educated in the public and private schools of her native city. She is an

ployed as superintendent to carry out his Next year a line was built by him un-

idea.

free

der contract from New York to Philadelphia; and in 1846 one from New York to Albany. In 1847 he organized a company and built a telegraph line from Troy to Montreal; and in 1848 formed the New York and Erie and the Erie and Michigan telegraph companies, to construct lines from New York to Lake Erie and thence to Milwaukee. He gave a seventy-five thousand dollar building to Ithaca for a free library and made a further gift of books. For the founding of Cornell university he gave nearly a million dollars; and so located the agricultural college land grant, which New York state had transferred to the university, that it produced three or four times its original value. Cornell, F. R. E., lawyer, jurist. In 187581 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Minnesota. Cornell, Gideon, lawyer, jurist. In 174749 he was chief justice of the supreme court

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eminent writer and philanthropist of Tacoma. Wash. She has been extensively engaged in philanthropic work; and gave a, free reading room and a circulating lito the public. She is the author of Little Wolf; Uncle

Nathan's Farm; The White Flame; Why, or a Kansas Girl's Query; and many other works. Cornell, Alonzo, B., financier, governor, was born Jan 22, 1832, in Ithaca, N.Y. He became operator, manager, superintendent, director,

vice-president

and acting president of the Western Union telegraph company. He

was the son

Of the late

Hon. Ezra Cornell, the founder of the Cornell university, who was associated with Professor Morse in the early development of the electric telegraph. In 1873 he was elected to the legislative assembly of the state of New York, and was chosen speaker. In 1880-83 he was the twenty-eighth governor of the state of New York. He was a trustee of Cornell university from its foundation; and president of the Cornell library association. His only publication is

True and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell, a Filial Tribute. He died in 1904 in New

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Rhode Island. Cornell, John Black, manufacturer, inven-

was bom Feb. 7, 1831, on Island, N.Y. In 1847, with his brother, W. W. Cornell, he opened an iron works in New York, which subsequently grew to large proportions. At these works the proprietors made an immense amount of architectural iron work, including iron for the elevated railroads in New York City. He died Oct. 27, 1877, in Lakewood, N.J. tor, philanthropist,

Long

Cornell, John Henry, musician, composer, was born May 8, 1828, in New York City. In 1868-77 he was organist of St. Paul's chapel of New York City; and subsequently for five years of the Brick church. He was the author of Primer of Modern Musical Tonality Practice of Sight Singing Easy Method of Modulation; Theory and Practice of Musical Form A Manual of Roman ChaJit and Cingregational Tune Book. He died March 1, 1894, in New York aty. Cornell, John M., iron manufacturer, was born Aug. 27, 1846, in New York City. He was taken into partnership with J. B'. and J. M. Cornell; and since 1887 has been sole proprietor of the works. Some of the most conspicuous buildings in New York City,







erected since the era of gigantic structures began, have been supplid with the interior frame vifork from the Cornell shops. Cornell,

Peter

Cortelyou,

manufacturer,

Cornell, Ezekiel, soldier, congressman, was born in Scituate, E..I. In 1780-83 he was a

was born in 1803, in Long Island, N.Y. He was for many years prosperously engaged

delegate from Rhode Island to the continental congress. He was a mechanic before the war; and established a valuable library in his native town. He died in Rhode Island. Cornell, Ezra, pioneer, philanthropist, was born Jan. 11, 1807, in Westchester, N.Y. When congress had appropriated thirty thousand dollars to build a telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore, Mr. Cornell invented a machine to be drawn by eight mules for laying the wires underground; and was em-

in the manufacture of gunpowder, as president of the Hazard powder company of York City. He also aided in the establishment of local gas works, ferry lines, banks a.nd white lead works in Brooklyn. He died May 5, 1885, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

New

Cornell, Sarah Hughes, physician, author, She is the authin Fairhaven, 111. or of Keneim's Desire. congressman, Cornell, Thomas, banker, was born Jan. 27, 1814, in White Plains, N.

was born