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Y. In 1867-69 he was a representative from New York to the fortieth congress as a republican. He died March 30, 1890, in Eondout, N.Y. Cornell, Paul, educator, lawyer, founderj was born Aug. 5, 1822, in White Creek, N.Y. He became a school teacher; and studied law In in Rushville, 111. 1847 he took passage in a stage coach for Chicago, 111. In 1854 he became engaged in real estate along the shore of Lake Michigan. He founded the suburbs Chicago of

now known

as

Hyde

Park and Cornell; and founded the Republic cominsurance pany. He was the first

life

to begin to agitate the propriety of establishing parks in Chicago and was appointed one of the South park commissioners.

Thomas C, genealogist, author. the author of The Beginnings of the Roman Catholic Church in Yonkers, N.Y. and The Cornell Family. Cornell, William Mason, physician, author, was bom Oct. 16, 1802, in Berkeley, Mass. He was the author of Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools; Life of Horace Greeley Grammar of the English Language Consumption Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; and History of Pennsylvania. He died April 14, 1895, in Boston, Mass. Cornell,

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Cornell,

William W., manufacturer,

phil-

anthropist, was born Jan. 1, 1823, on Long Island. He established an extensive business as an iron-founder in New York City. He was a liberal giver to benevolent objects, especially for the erection of churches for the methodist denominations; and founded Cornell college at Mount Vernon, Iowa. He died March 17, 1870, in New York City. Corning, Charles Robert, lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1855, in Concord, N.H. In 1889 he was a member of the New Hampshire state senate. He is now probate judge. He is the author of various Monographs and historical papers.

Corning, Erastus, railroad president, bankcongressman, was born Dec. 14, 1794, in Norwich, Conn. He established in Albany the well-known hardware business of Erastus Corning and company. He was a major; and was also for several years an influential railroad, bank, and canal company president. For several terras he was a member of the state legislature; and in 1857-59 and 186163 he .was a representative to the thirtyfifth and thirtv-seventh congresses. He died April 9, 1872, in Albany, N.Y. Corning, James Leonard, physician, author, was born Aug. 28, 1855, in Stamford, Conn. He is specially distinguished as neurologist; and discovered spinal ansesthesia in 1885. He is the author of Brain Rest; Brain Exhauser,

and EpiTreatise on Headache and Neuralgia; and The Princess Ahmedee, a romance. tion; Local Ansesthesia; Hysteria

lepsy;

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Corning,

Warren Holmes, was bom Feb.

18, 1841, in Painesville, Ohio. In 1887 he sold the Monarch distilling company, of Peoria,

to the Distilling and cattle feeding company, and retired with well earned laurels from the company. He made large investments in various institutions, including the Standard sewing machine company, the Wick banking and trust company, the First national bank, and the Guardian trust com111.,

pany of Cleveland, Ohio. He died Sept.

3,

1899, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Cornish, Johnston, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born in Hunterdon county, N.J. He entered the Cornish piano and organ company as junior partner, and became the manager of that institution. He was mayor of Washington in 18S4-88. He was elected state senator in 1890; and in 1893-95 he was a representative from NeW York to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Cornish, Leslie Colby, lawyer, jurist, bankwas born Oct. 8, 1854, in Winslow, Maine-. In 1878 he was a member of the Maine state legislature; and in 1870 was admitted to the practice of law. Since 1907 he has been an associate justice of the supreme court of Maine. Since 1905 he has been president of the Augusta savings bank; and since 1904 has been president of the board of trustees of the Lithgow library of Augusta, Maine. er,

Cornish, William D., business man, railHe is president of the San

road president.

Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway company; president of the Southern Pacific railroad; president of the Leavenworth, Kansas and western railroad and is president of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad.

Comman, Oliver Perry, educator, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 26, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a district superintendent of the public schools of Philadelphia, Pa.; and since 1897 has been lecturer at the university of Pennsylvania on comparative psychology. He is the author of Spelling in the Elementary Schools; and co-author of Brief Topical Survey of the United States History; and Geography Primer. Cornwall, Henry Bedinger, mineralogist, author, was born July 29, 1844, in Southport, Conn. He was assistant in the school of mines in 1865-73; and since 1873 a professor of mineralogy at Princeton college. He is the author of Manual of Blow-Pipe Analy-

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sis.

Cornwall, Wendell W., lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 10, 1857, in Dane county. Wis. He was educated at Albion academy. Alfred university; and graduated from the law school of the university of Wisconsin. He has been county judge of McPherson county, S.D.; has practiced law in Spencer, Iowa; and has been a member of the

jurist,