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Naturalist In Mass. He is the author of the Magdalen Islands; Birds of the Bahama Islands; The Beautiful and Curious Birds of the World; Birds of Haiti and San Domingo; Catalogue of West Indian Birds; Hunting and Fishing in Florida; The Birds of Eastern North America; How to Know the

Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America; The Birds of the West Indies; Key to the Water Birds of Florida; and Hunting and Fishing in Florida. Cory, Charles Henry, clergyman, college president, author, was bom in 1834 in Canada.

He was

president of

the

theological

seminary of Richmond, Va. He was the auth'- r of Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Labor

He

Among the Colored People of the South. died in 1899 in Richmond, Va.

Cory, Harry Thomas, civil engineer, author was born May 27, 1870, in La Fayette, Ind. Since 1900 he has been dean and professor of civil engineering in the university of Cincinnati. He is the author of Manual of United States System of Land Surveying.

Cory, Sally Morris, designer, artist, was 21, 1863, in New York City. She is the illustrator for the Armstrong Press Syndicate; and for Putnam brothers of New York City. She holds an art medal for bookcover designing.

born Feb.

Cosand, Samuel W., soldier, lawyer, was born June 27, 1843, in Boone county, Ind. He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company B, seventy-second regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He is a noted lawyer of Gettysburg, S.D.; and has served as state's attorney of Potter county. Cosby, Fortunatus, journalist, poet, was 1801, in Louisville, Ky. He of the first school board of trustees; and later superintendent of public schools in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1846 he edit-

born

May

2,

was a member

ed the Examiner, the first Kentucky paper devoted to the cause of negro emancipation. His best known poems are Ode to the Mocking Bird; The Traveler in the Desert; A

Dream

Long Ago; and Fireside Fancies. Cosby, Frank Carvill, naval officer, was of

ceiver of United States public moneys oi California at Sacramento. Cosby, William, colonial governor, was born about 1695. He served as a colonel in the army; was governor of Minorca and of the Leeward islands; and was colonial gover-

nor of

New York in 1732-36. He New York City.

10,

was paymaster

school. He was apvicar-general pointed of the diocese in 1882. On the death of Bishop McMullen he was adminisselected as trator; and in 1884 was proposed to the holy see as his successor in the bishopric of Davenport. He is the first native of the United States that has been appointedbishop west of the Mississippi. Cosgrove, J^hn, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. Id, 1839, in Alexandria, N.Y. He was twice elected. city attorney of Boonville, Mo.; and in 1872 was elected prosecuting attorney of Cooper county. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1872 and 1880; and in 1883-85 he was a representative from Missouri to the fortyeighth congress as a democrat. Cossett, Franceway Ranna, clergyman, author, was born April 24, 1790, in Claremont, N.H. He was first president of Cumberland college in 1835-42; and of Cumberland university until 1847. He was the author of The Life and Times of Ewing, which gives a history of the beginnings of the Cumberland presbyterian denomination. He died July 3, 1863, in Lebanon, Tenn. Costello, Frederick H., author, commercial

agent,

was born

Maine.

He was educated

1840, in Louisville,

il

'^he

Cosby, George Blake, soldier, government official,

civil

war he was adjutant-general of Caliand is at present re-

fornia for four years;

Sept. 4, 1851, in Bangor, in the public schools of New England; and studied under private tutors. He has filled numerous positions of trust and honor; and since 1889 has been local agent for the R. G. Dun and eom-

panys mercantile agency located at Bangor, Maine. He was prominently identified with the business and pub-

died in 1905.

was born Jan. 19, 1830, in Louisville, Ky. He joined the confederate army as captain of cavalry in 1861; was promoted to brigadier-general in 1863; and commanded a brigade of cavalry under Genera.1 Stephen D. Lee in the south. After the close of the

March

Cosgrove, Henry, clergyman, bishop, was born in 1834 in Williamsport, Pa. In 1862 he became pastor of Davenport, Iowa; and shortly afterward he erected a church and

Ky. He navy during the civil war; and continued as paymaster until 1881. He was then placed on inspection duty; and in 1897-1901 was president of the naval examination board. In 1888-1902 he was general inspector; and subsequently became pay director with rank of rear-admiral. He

born April

died

10, 1736, in

lic

He

tive city.

is

affairs

the author of

of his na-

The Two on

Galley Island; Master Ardick Buccaneer; Under the Rattlesnake Flag; On Fighting Decks in 1812; A Tar of the Old School; Nelson's Yankee Boy; Morgan's Younger Rifle Man and other works.

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