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Baltimore. Courtis, Frank, naval officer, was born June 18, 1844, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1866 he graduated from the United States naval academy. He served throughout the civil war; and was promoted to master in 1869. He attained the rank of rear-admiral in the United States navy in 1900; and was retired from active service for physical inability. He died Jan. 19, 1908, in Washington, D.C. Courtis, William Munroe, mining engineer, metallurgist, scientist, was born Jan. 7, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He was chief engineer of the survey of Santo Domingo; and has patented an improved mill apparatus for saving waste in tailings. He is a member of the American association for the advancement of science.

Courtleigh, William Louis, actor, dramatwas born June 28, 1869, in Canada. In 1885 he graduated from the public school at In 1888 he began his career St. Louis, Mo. as an actor; and has become well known throughout the United States. He has performed important roles in the largest cities; and resides in New York City. He is president of the Actor's society of America; a member of the Actor's order of friendship; and a member of the Player's, Lambs and ist,

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Cousins, Robert G., lawyer, congressman,

was born in 1859 in Cedar county, Iowa. In 1886 he was elected to the Iowa state legislature; and was elected by the house of representatives as one of the prosecutors for the Brown impeachment, tried before the state senate during 1887. In 1888 he was elected prosecuting attorney and also presidential elector for the fifth congressional district; and is prominent as a congressional orator. In 1893-1907 he was a representative from Iowa to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fiftyeighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses as a republican. Coutler, John F., farmer, statesman, was born Nov. 15, 1840, in Cass county, Mich. In 1870 he was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature. He moved to Nebraska in 1874; and was there elected to the state senate in 1878. In 1882 he moved to Kansas; and was elected to the legislature of that state in 1884, and again in 1892. fifty-fifth,

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Covell, financier,

Giles,

lawyer,

was born June

8,

legislator,

1854, in Erie,

Courtney, Frederick, clergyman, bishop, was born Jan. 5, 1837, in England. In 18881904 he was a bishop of Nova Scotia; and since that time has been rector of St. James' church in New York City. Courtney, Walter, physician, surgeon, was born Sept. IS, 1855, in Ontario, Canada. In 1883 he graduated from the university of Michigan. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Brainerd, Minn. and president of the upper Mississippi medical society. Since 1888 he has been chief surgeon of the Northern pacific railroad. He is a member of the Minnesota academy of medicine and the American medical association; and has been president of the Minnesota state medical

received an academic education and was admitted to the bar in 1880. In 1883 he moved to North Dakota, where he has «^''*'!^K large and extensive financial interests in g^^ wheat and stock farms, and in a general mercantile house. He has served two terms as attorney for state's Wells county. He served one term as a repthe resentative of North Dakota state legislature; and was a, member of several important committees. Covell, James, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1796, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a methodist clergyman of New York and Vermont. He published a Dictionary of the Bible. He died May 15, 1845, in Troy,

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Couse, Eanger Irving, painter, artist, was born Sept. 3, 1866, in Saginaw, Mich. He was a pupil in the national academy of design, in New York City and studied in the foreign His best countries. known pictures are

born Dec. 7, 1829, in Ovid, N.Y. He is a graduate of the Bennett college of physicians and surgeons of Chicago, 111. He has been school superintendent; president of the state medical society; president of the national medical association; lecturer on

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physician,

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chronic diseases, and professor of obstetrics in his alma mater. He is well known as a frequent contributor to medical literature, and is a noted physician and surgeon of Clinton, Wis. Covert, James W., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1842, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. In 1867-70 he was school commissioner; and at the same time was assistant district attorney of his county. He was surrogate ot Queen's county in 1870-74. In 1877-81 and 1889-95 he was a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fifty-

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