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supreme court of Pennsylvania. He died April 31, 1852, in Westmoreland county, Pa. Coulter, Richard, soldier, lawyer, banker, was born Oct. 11, 1827, in Westmoreland county. Pa. He served in the Mexican war as a private in a Greensburg company; and in 1849 was admitted to the bar. He was among the first to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops; becoming lieutenantcolonel of the eleventh Pennsylvania regiment. He became colonel and remained in the army until the end of the civil war, being severely wounded at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Spottsylvania. In 1864 he was brevetted brigadier-general; and subsequently was brevetted major-general. After 1874 he became extensively engaged in the banking business; and has long been president of the National bank of Greensburg, Pa.; and was one of the leading stockholders in the Keystone coal and coke company. He died in 1908 in Greensburg, Pa. Coulter, Stanley, educator, biologist, author, was bom June 2, 1855, in Ningpo, China. He graduated from Hanover college from which institution he received the degrees of A.M., Ph.D. and LL.D. and he has also studied in various universities of America and Europe. He has held important teaching positions; and since 1887 has been professor of biology and director of the biological laboratories of Purdue university; and since 1907 has been dean of the school of science. He is a member of the Indiana academy of science and of the Western society

of naturalists. He is the author of Forest Trees of Indiana; and numerous Monographs and scientific pamphlets and reports.

Council, William Hooper, educator, college president, was born July 13, 1848, in Payetteville, N.C. By earnest toil, self-denial and hard study he has built up the State normal industrial school of Alabama, of which he is president.

Countermine, John Donnan, clergyman, was born in Schenectady, N.Y. He graduated from Union college of Schenectady, N.Y.; and also graduated from the Princeton seminary of New Jersey. In 1876 he was ordained by the Albany presbyand has held tery; pastorates at Esperauthor,

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York in and in Beatrice, Neb.; was pastor in Topeka, Kan.; and also in

pastorates

Philadelphia, Pa. In 1891-1907 he was a director of the Omaha theological seminary; and has held various positions of trust and honor. He is the author of Religious Belief of Shakespeare; Daybreak Everywhere ; and has published a large number of sermons and other pamphlets.

Councilman, William Thomas, physician, author, was born in 1854 in Maryland. He is an instructor at Harvard medical school. He is the author of Contribution to the Study of Infiammation: On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; and On the jEtiology of Malaria; and other works.

Countryman, Edwin, lawyer, jurist, was born May, 1833, in Fort Plain, N.Y. In 1874 he was an associate justice of the New York supreme court. Couper, William, sculptor, artist, was bom Sept. 20, 1853, in Norfolk, Va. He was educated at Norfolk; and began art studies at the Cooper institute in New York City. He has also studied at Munich and Florence, Italy. In 1893

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works of art sent from Italy to ceptance

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Chicago exposiAfter twentytwo years in Italy he

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settled

permanently

New York

City. He gives all his attention principally to ideal works, portrait statues, busts and bas-reliefs. He is a member of the national sculptural society and of the Architectural league. in

Courtenay, Edward Henry, civil engineer, mathematician, author, was born in 1803 in Maryland. He was professor of mathematics in the university of Virginia in 1842-53.

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Treatise on Differential Calsulus and the Calculus of Variations. He died Dec. 21, 1853, in Charlottesville, Va.

Courtenay, William Ashmead, manufacturphilanthropist, was born Feb. 4, 1831, in Charleston, S.C. In 1850-60 with his brother he conducted a bookselling and publishing business in Charleston, S.C. In 1861-65 he was an officer in the confederate states army. For twenty years he was engaged in the er,

commission and shipping business in Charleston, S.C.

He was

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strumental in erecting

monuments

to Colonel

William Washington, General Daniel Morgan and the Heroes of Cowpens. At the time of the earthquake he was mayor of Charleston, S.C; and his wise administration attracted national attention. Courter, Franklin C, painter, artist, was born July 30, 1854, in Caldwell, N.J. In 1888 he was appointed professor of drawing and painting in Albion college of Michigan. His best known ideal picture is his painting of Lincoln Showing Sojourner Truth the Bible '