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been preceptress and professor of literature

St. Peter's church;

in the Illinois state normal university. She is the author of Literature of Life in School; and Some Ethical Aspects of Later Eliza-

board of trustees of the Charleston medical college. Died Jan. 26, 1839, Charleston, S.C. Colby, William Irving, educator, traveler, author, was born Oct. 29, 1852, in Warner, N.H. He was educa.ted in the public schools

bethan Tragedy. Colby, John August, merchant, manufacturer, founder, was born April 1, 1833, in Freyeburg, Maine. In 1857-64 he was a dealer in books and stationery in Chicago, HI. He then engaged in the furniture business; and since 1879 has been head of the firm of John A. Colby and sons, manufacturers and retail dealers of furniture, of Chicago,

of his native city;

cution. Since 1881 he has been a teacher of German; and is also a

of German now of New York City. He is the

publisher

textbooks

author of Der Lehrer, a German Reader and a Conversation Book; Practical Synopsis of

German Grammar Der

Leitstern, Key to German Grammar and Literal Translation of Der Lehrer. Colcock, Charles Jones, soldier, planter, founder, was born April 30, 1820, in Barnwell district, S.C. He was educated at the Boiling Springs acad-

ka legislature; he has

emy; and at the best

been

schools

edged

conducted an extensive cotton factorage business all throughout the south; and owned a cotton plantation at Foot-

assistant attorney of the United States; and acknowlto

be

one

S.C.

of

the ablest lawyers in the western states. He He was in the full command of a company in the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian war in 1863, commanded a battalion in the Indian campaign of 1876-78; was colonel in command of the regular and state troops during the strike in Omaha in 1882, and was brigadier-general in command of the Nebraska military forces in the Sioux Indian war in the winter of 1890-91. He has served in the infantry, cavalry and artillery, and in every military capacity from private to brigadier-general. He has been three years captain, six years colonel, and During the nine years brigadier-general.

Spanish-American war in 1899 he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers. Colby, Stoddard B., financier, government was born in 1816 in Vermont. In 1864 he was appointed register of the United States treasury at Washington. He died Sept. 21, 1867, in Haverhill, N.H. Colcock, Charles Jones, soldier, lawyer, official,

banker, was born Aug. 11, 1771, in Charleston, S.C. In 1788 he graduated from Princeton college. In 1792 he began the practice of law in Charleston, S.C; became solicitor of the southern circuit; and served two terms in the South Carolina house of representatives. He became circuit judge, associate-judge, and a judge of the court of appeals. For many years until his death he was president of the Bank of the State. He commanded a cavalry company of Ninety-Six, S.C. was one of the founders of

in

Charleston,

He

Point.

He

established

a line of steamers between Charleston and

Savannah; the

and

organizer and

was di-

rector of the Charleston and Savannah railway. He served in the civil war; commanded 'at the Battle of Honey-Hill in 1864; attained the rank of colonel; and commanded and led a brilliant cavalry fight at Florence, S.C. He died Oct. 22, 1891, on his cotton

plantation in Hampton county, S.C. Colcock, Charles Jones, educator, mathematician, curator, was born Jan. 17, 1852, in Beaufort District, S.C. He was educated at the college of Charleston; and at union college of Schenectady,

N.Y.

He has been

as-

sistant

professor of mathematics at union college a successful planter; and identified with the business and public affairs of Char;

legislator, jurist,

5

and

graduated from the Chicago college of elo-

111.

Colby, John Stark, journalist, clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1851 in New Hampshire. Prior to 1891 he was a journalist of Lowell, Mass. He was the author of Agatha, a volume of verse. He died in 1898. Colby, Leonard Wright, soldier, lawyer, was born on Aug. 5, 1848, in Cherry Valley, Ohio. He graduated in the regular, classical and law courses of the university of Wisconsin. He has served two terms in the state senate of the Nebras-



and was president of the

Ifston, S.C.

He

is

instructor

of

science

now

and

of mathematics; headmaster of the Porter military academy; and a curator of the South Carolina historical society.

he

is

Colcock, John, lawyer, jurist, statesman, 6, 1744, iii Charleston, S.C. In 1767 he began the practice of law in

was born June