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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Cochrane, John Crombie, architect, banker, was born Nov. 8, 1833, in New Boston, N.H. He was educated in the public and private .,-,„-,

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ton, Mass. In 1865 he his career as an architect of Davenport,

began

Iowa. He designed the Burtis House, Metropolitan Hall, St. Luke's church and other buildings in Davenport. He built the jail at Man-

Iowa, Memorial

chester, N.H., the state houses of Illinois and Hall of Beloit college, and

the chamber of commerce in Chicago, 111. Cock, Thomas, physician, was born in 1782 in Glen Cove, L.I. He Nas visiting physician to the New York hospital in 1819-34, and consulting physician after that year. He became a. fellow of the College of physicians and surgeons in 1820; was its vice-president in 1827-55; its president in 1855-58; and president of the New York academy of medicine in 1852. He was also professor of anat-

omy and

physiology in Rutgers college in

1812-26. He York City.

died

June

14,

1869,

in

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Cockcroft, James, litterateur, author, was born in September, 1842, in New York City. In 1887 he was the originator of the encyclopedia system of law books. He is the author of American and English Encyclopedia of Law; Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice and Encyclopedia of Forms and Preced;

ence.

Cocke, James Richard, physician, surgeon, author, was born ilarch 23, 1863, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was educated at the university of Tennessee; attended the medical schools of the university of Pennsylvania; and studied in the Boston university. Harvard university, and studied in the university of Berlin, Germany. For two years he was a teacher in the Tennessee school for the blind. He is a, physician of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Hypnotism; and Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel. Cocke, John, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1772 in Brunswick, Va. He became a member of the first legislature of the state in 1796; was speaker of the house for many years; and was also a member of the state senate. In 1819-27 he was a representative to the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth

and

nineteenth congresses. He died Feb. 16, 1854, in Eutledge, Tenn. Cocke, John, soldier, was born in New Jersey. In 1898-99 he served in the SpanishAmerican war; and is now second lieutenant in the eleventh cavalry at Havana. Cocke, Philip St. George, soldier, was born in 1808 in Virginia. He was made brigadiergeneral in the confederate army in 1861;

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and commanded the fifth brigade at the first battle of Bull Run. He died Dec. 26, 1861. Cocke, William, soldier, United States senator, jurist, was born in 1740 in Virginia. He became a general of militia served in the state legislature in 1813; and became

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one of the judges of the circuit court; in 1795-1805 he was United States senator; and in 1814 was appointed Indian agent tor the Chickasaw nation. Cocke, William M., congressman, was born in Tennessee. In 1845-49 he was a representative from Tennessee to the twenty-ninth and thirtieth congresses. He died in Tennessee.

Cocke, Zitella, poet, was born in 1836 in Alabama. She is the author of A Doric Reed, a volume of poems. Cocker, Benjamin Franklin, educator, clergyman, author, was born in England in 1821.

In 1869-83 he was professor of philosophy at the university of Michigan. He was the author of The Students' Handbook of Philosophy; and The Theistie Conception of the

World. Cocker, William Johnson, educator, author,

was born in 1846 in England. He is the author of Handbook of Punctuation; and The Government of the United States. Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison, educator, scientist, was born Aug. 22, 1866, in England. In 1893-96 he was professor of entomology in the New Mexico agricultural college; and in 1900 became consulting entomologist at the Arizona agricultural experimental station. Since 1906 he has been professor of systematic zoology in the university of Colorado. He is a member of the American association for the advancement of

science. Cockerill,

John

A., journalist, founder,

was

born Dec. 5, 1845, in Adams county, Ohio. In 1865 he became owner and editor of the True Telegraph of Hamilton, Ohio; and in 1891 established the Commercial Advertiser

New York

City. He died in 1896 in New City. Cockerill, Joseph Randolph, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1857-59 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty-fifth congress. He died Oct. 23, 1875, in West Union, Ohio. of

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Cockran, James, congressman. In 1809-13 he was a representative 'from North Carolina to the eleventh and twelfth congresses. He died in North Carolina.

Cockran, William Bourke, lawyer, orator, congressman, wag born Feb. 28, 1854, in Ireland. He came to the United States in 1871; and became principal of a public school in Winchester county, N.Y. He began the practice of law in New York; and was soon prominent in politics of the state. In 188789 and 1901-09 he was a representative from

New York to the fiftieth, fifty-seventh, fifty, eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses. Cockrell, Jeremiah Vardaman, 1 awyer, congressman, was born May 7, 1832, in John-