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the severe measures taken against the Quakers. In 1681 he was made deputy governor; and during the same year was sent to England as an agent for the colony, but died soon after his arrival. Some of his letters on public business are still extant. He died in 1682 in England. Cudworth, Nathaniel, soldier, was born in Massachusetts. He was in the revolutionary war. He died Dec. 19, 1796. Culberson, Charles A., governor. United States senator, was born June 10, 1855, in Dadeville, Ala. In 1856 he moved to Texas; and in 1887 moved to 1874 he Dallas, In graduated from the Virginia military institute; and in 187677 studied law at the university of Virginia. In 1890-94 he was attorney-general of Texas; and in 1894-98 was governor of the state of Texas. In 1890 and 1904 he was a delegate-at-large to the democratic national conventions at Chicago and St. Louis. In 1899 he was elected to the United States senate for the terms

ending in 1911. Culberson, David B., soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 1830, in Troupe county, Ga. He was elected to the Texas legislature in 1859. He entered the confederate army in 1862 as a private; and rose to be an adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel. In 1864 he was elected to the legislature of Texas, and subsequently to the state senate. In' 1875-97 he was a representative from Texas to the fortyfourth and forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh,

forty-eighth,

forty-ninth,

fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third

fiftieth,

and

fift>f

fourth congresses as a democrat. He died May 7, 1900, in -Tefferson, Texas. Culbertson, Anne Virginia, elocutionist, author, was born Nov. 16, 1864, in Zanesville, Ohio. Since 1893 she has been engaged as a writer and author-reader. She is the author of Lays of a Wandering Minstrel; At the Big House; and When the Banjo Talks. Culbertson, James Coe, physician, journalist, author, was born Dec. 19, 1840, in Miami county, Ohio. Since 1873 he has been editor and publisher of the Cincinnati LancetClinic. He is the author of Luke, the Beloved Physician. He died Jan. 4, 1908, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Culbertson, ufacturer, he

Kennedy Russell, was born May

soldier, 12,

man-

1840, in

Knightstown, Ind. He is one of the owners of the Cherokee iron works in Alabama; is one of the most skillful and successful iron men in the country; and has been largely concerned, with his brother and others, in bringing about many valuable changes in iron manufacture.

Culbertson, Matthew Simpson, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Chambersburg, Pa. In 1844 he was ordained a missionary to China; and labored in that country until 1862. He was the author of Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions in North China. He died in August, 1862, in China. Culbertson, William C, farmer, lumberman, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1825, in Erie county. Pa. He is a successful farmer and lumberman of Girard, Pa. In 1889-91 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-first congress as a republican. Culbertson, William Wirt, soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1835, in Mifflin county. Pa. He removed to Ohio; entered the union army as a captain in 1861; and served three years. He was elected state senator, and served four years. In 1883-85 he was a representative from Kentucky to the forty-eighth congress. He built and started the ferry at Ashland, Ky. Culbreth, David Marvel Reynolds, educator, physician, professor of medicine, author, was born Dec. 4, 1856, near Willow Grove, Del. In 187172 he attended Felton

seminary of Delaware; 1872-77 studied in the university of Virginia; and in 1878-79 studied at the Maryland college of phar-

in

macy;

in 1882-83 attended the college of physicians and surgeons of Baltimore, Md.; and took three

prizes;

and was

presi-

dent of the graduating class of the Maryland college of pharmacy, now a department of the university of Maryland. Since 1885 he has been professor of materia medica, botany and pharmacognosy in the medical college of pharmacy; and since 1897 has filled the same chair in the medical and dental department of the university of Maryland. He has been state commissioner of practical chemistry for a number of years is a member of the leading medical and scientific associations;

and has

numer-

filled

ous positions of trust and honor.

He

is the author of Pharmaceutic Botany; Materia Medica and Pharmacology; Materia Medica Compend; and The University of Virginia, memories of her student life and professors. Culbreth, Thomas, congressman, was born in 1786 in Kent county, Del. In 1817-21 he was a representative from Maryland to the

fifteenth

May

and sixteenth congresses, Denton, Md.

tie aiea

17, 1843, in

Ciilin, Robert Stewart, archseologist, author, was born July 12, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1903 was vice-president of section of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of Religious Ceremonies of the Chinese:

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