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122 the public schools of Indianapolis, Ind. She is the author of Young Folks' History of Greece and Rome; and Young Folks' History of the Middle Ages.

Cotton, John, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 4, 1585, in England. He came to the Massachusetts colony in 1633, having been for twenty years vicar of St. Botolph's church in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was at once made teacher of the church in the new settlement of Boston; and until his death exercised an influence in church and state unequaled by any one since in New England. He was the author of The Bloody Tenet Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger Williams's famous Bloody Tenet of Persecution; A Brief Exposition upon Ecclesiastes; The Covenant of Grace; The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; the of the Congregational Churches Cleared; The of Life; Treat-

Way

Way

Concerning Predestination; The New Covenant; and Meat for Strong Men, Spiritual Milk for Babies. He died Deo. 23, 1652, in Boston, Mass. Cotton, John, clergyman, was born March 13, 1640, in Boston, Mass. He was minister for thirty years in Plymouth, Mass.; and afterward in Charleston, S.C. He was eminent for his acquaintance with the Indian language, frequently preached to the aborigines at Martha's Vineyard and Plymouth; and revised and corrected the whole of Eliot's Indian Bible. He died Sept. 18, 1699, in Charise

leston, S.C.

Cotton, Josiah, clergyman, was born Jan. 8, 1680. Having acquired considerable knowledge of the Indian language, he visited various tribes in Plymouth colony as a missionary during nearly forty years. He was also clerk of the county court and register of probate. He prepared a vocabulary of the language of the Massachusetts Indians. He died Aug. 19, 1756. Cotton, Bobert Hammond, educator, journalist, clergyman, was born Oct. 6, 1841, in Great Britain. He was educated in the public and private schools. He has been a successful journalist and edu-

He has filled pastorates in St. Peter, Minn.; has been rector of St. James' church at St. Paul, Minn.; and also the rector of the Trinity church at Fort Worth, Texas. He cator.

has

filled

important

positions in his church and has contributed extensively to current literature on religious and educational subjects. Cottrell, Calvert Byron, manufacturer, inventor, was bom Aug. 21, 1821, in Westerly, R.I. He has devoted himself exclusively to invention and improvement in matters belonging to printing and press manufacture.

of his latest and most important inventions is a shifting tympan for a Webb perfecting press.

One

Cotton,

William Wick,

was born Dec. was educated

lawyer, author, Lyons, Iowa. He the public school; at the

13, 1859, in i'l

state normal school at Millersville, Pa.; and at the Columbia law school. In 1888 he was appointed assistant to the general solicitor of the Union pacific railroad company at Omaha, Neb. In 1889 he removed to Portland, Ore. He was general attorney of the pacific division of the Union pacific railroad when that railroad passed into the hands of the Oeegon railroad and navigation company. He became general attorney of the latter company. In 1901 he was appointed by the Oregon legislature one of the committee of two members to prepare manuscript for the new edition Laws and Codes of Oregon. He is part author of Bellinger and Cotton's Annotated Laws of Oregon.

Cottrell, Frederick Gardner, educator, sciwas born Jan. 10, 1877, in Oakland, He was educated in the university of Cal. California; at Berlin and Leipzig; and reentist,

Since ceived the degrees of B.S. and Ph.D. 1902 he has been instructor in physical chemistry in the university of California. Cottrell, James La Fayette, statesman, congressman, was born about 1800. In 183437 he served in the Alabama house of representatives; and in 1839-41 served in the stale senate. He was president of the senate in 1840. In 1846-47 he was a representative from Alabania to the twenty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy. In 1848 he was elected on the Cass electoral ticket, but resigned. He moved to Florida, where he took an active part in politics. Couch, Darius Nash, soldier, was born July 23, 1822, in South East, N.Y. He graduated from the United States military academy in 1846 and was assigned to the fourth artillery, with which he served in the Mexican war, gaining the brevet of first lieutenant in 1847 for gallant conduct at Buena Vista. He served against the Seminoles in 1849-50;

and in 1853, when on a leave of absence, he

made an exploring

expedition into Mexico, which is mentioned in the United States senate reports. He died Feb. 13, 1897, in Norwalk, Conn.