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son county, Mo. He was appointed district judge; and was elected in 1886 and re-elected in 1890. In 1893-97 he was a representative from Texas to the fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses as a democrat. Cockrell, Francis Marion, soldier, lawyer. United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1834, in Warrensburg, Mo. He was educated at

Chapel Hill college of Lafayette county. Mo.

During the civil war he was a private, captain.lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brigadiergeneral in the confederate service. He practiced law for many

years in Warrensburg, Mo. In 1875-1905 he States was United senator from Missouri as a democrat; he was chairman of the senate committee on engrossed bills; and a member of the committees on appropriations, military affairs, rules and other committees; and was also a member of the select committee on industrial expositions. Since 1905 he has been interstate commerce commissioner. Cockrell, Robert Spratt, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 22, 1866, in Livingston, Ala. In 1891 he began the practice of law; and since 1902 he has been an associate justice of the supreme court of Alabama. Cockrell, Sterling Bobertson, soldier, law-

was born Sept. 25, 1847, in NashTenn. In 1864 he was sergeant of light artillery in the army of the Tennessee, confederate service. In 1884 he became chief justice of the supreme court of Arkansas, and received the re-election. He died in 1901, in Little Rock, Ark. Cockroft, S. Leonidas, lawyer, public official, was born Deo. 6, 1853, in Carthage, Miss. He was educated at the university of Mississippi; and at the Lebanon normal university of Ohio. He soon attained success in the practice of law; and for sixteen years in 1886-1902 he was attorney-general for the state of Tennessee in the fourteenth judicial circuit of the state. He is now secretary and treasurer of the state board of law examiners for the state of Tennessee; and resides in Memphis, Tenn. Cocks, William Willets, farmer, congressman, was born July 24, 1861, in Westbury, Long Island, N.Y. He was educated in Swarthmore college. He is by occupation a farmer, having farms on Long Island and a ranch in Wabaunsee county, Kan. He has always been identified with public aflfairs of his community; and in 1894-1900 was commissioner of highways of the town of North Hempstead. In 1900 he was elected state senator. In 1905-11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-ninth yer, jurist,

ville,

and

sixtieth

and

sixty-first congresses.

Codding, Ichabod, clergyman, lecturer, abwas born in 1811 in Bristol, N.Y. He served for five years as agent and lecturer of the anti-slavery society, speaking conolitionist,

tinually in New England and New York. It is said that he never lost his self-command, though often assailed by mobs. He died June 17, 1866, in Baraboo, Wis. Codding, James H., merchant, lawyer, congressman, was bom July 8, 1849, in Bradford county. Pa. Since 1854 he has been a resident of Towanda, and was educated at the Susquehanna colFor legiate institute.

ten years he was engaged-in the hardware business in Towanda, Pa.; and since 1878 has been engaged in the practice of law. In 1895-99 he was a representative to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican; and served on several important committees. Coddington, David Smith, lawyer, was born Sept. 23, 1833, in New York. He was a well-known figure in the fashionable life of his day. He died Sept. 2, 1865, in Saratoga. Coddington, Jonathan Inslee, merchant, was born Dec. 23, 1784, in Woodbridge, N.Y. For two decades he was among the most prominent and wealthy commission merchants of New York City. For four years he was postmaster of New York; and he was on most intimate terms with Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. He declined the democratic nomination for governor of New York. He died Dec. 24, 1856, in New York City.

Coddington, William, colonial governor, auwas born in 1601 in Lincolnshire, EngHe was colonial governor of Rhode Island in 1674-76 and 1683-85. He was the author of Demonstrations of True Love unto the Rulers of Massachusetts. He died Nov.

thor, land.

1,

1678.

Codman, J. H., soldier. He attained the rank of brigadier-general during the civil war.

He

died Oct.

4,

1891, in Ohio.

Codman, John,

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 3, 1782, in Easton, Mass. In 180847 he was pastor of the second church at Dorchester, Mass. He was the author of Sermons; and Visit to England. He died Dec. 23, 1847, in Dorchester, Mass. Codman, John, sailor, author, was bom Aug. 16, 1814, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a noted captain in the merchant marine. He is the author of Sailors' Life and Sailors' Yarns; Ten Months in Brazil; The Mormon Country The Round Trip by Way of Panama A Solution of the Mormon Problem and Winter Sketches from the Saddle. He died in 1900 in Boston, Mass.