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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Charleston, S.C.; and in 1769 was secretary of the Charleston library. In 1769 he was justice of the peace for Berkeley county, S. C; and in 1775-76 was assistant to the commissary-general of South Carolina. In 1775 he was a member of the first provincial congress of South Carolina; and in the opening year of the revolutionary war he was secretary of the privy council. He died Aug. 21, 1782. in Charleston, S.C. Colcock, Richard Woodward, soldier, was born in South Carolina. In 1823 he entered the United States military academy as a cadet; and in 1826 graduated; and was made second lieutenant in the fourth regiment United States infantry. In 1835 he attained the rank of first lieutenant; and resigned from the army in 1836. He died Jan. 9, 1856, in South Carolina. Colcock, William Ferguson, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1804, in Charleston, S.C. In 1821 he graduated from the South Carolina college. In 1825 he began the practice of law at Coosawhatchie, S.C; and in 1838-48 was a member of the South Carolina house of representatives, serving as speaker in 1840-48. In 1848-52 he served two terms as a member of congress from South Carolina. In 1853-65 he was collector of the port of Charleston; and was also a regent of the Smithsonian institute of Washington, D.C. He died in 1889 in Charles-

sociation. Cole, Aaron Hodgman, educator, lecturer, biologist, scientist, was born Oct. 21, 1856, in Greenwich, N.Y. He was educated at

the Colgate university, Johns Hopkins university and the university of Chicago; and received the degrees of A.M. and A.B. Since

1906 he has been an instructor of biology in the normal school at Chicago, 111. Since 1895 he has been a popular lecturer on bacteriology. He is the inventor of scientific . apparatus, eye sliTelds, and of methods of highly magnifying on screen images of microscopic animals and plants. He is a member of the American association for the ad-

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Golden, Cadwallader, physician, colonial governor, author, was born Feb. 17, 1688, in Scotland. He was a colonial physician; colonial-governor of New York in 1760-61, 176365, 1769-70 and 1775-76; and a prominent loyalist of his day. He was the author of The History of the Five Indian Nations and Principles of Actions on Matter. He died Sept. 28, 1776, in Long Island, N.Y.

Colden, Cadwallader David, lawyer, congressman, author, was born April 4, 1769, in Springfield, N.Y. He served in the New York state legislature; was district attorney of the United States for many years; and was at one time mayor of New York City. In 1821-23 he was a representative from New York to the seventeenth congress; and was an early and intimate friend of Robert Fulton, and wrote his biography. He published Life of Robert Fulton; and Vindication of the Steamboat Right Granted by the State of New York. He died Feb. 7, 1834, in Jersey City, N.J. Coldwell,

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Dow, educator, clergyman, was 1818, in Sterling, Conn. In 1849

removed to Racine, Wis., and in 1850 was elected president of Nashotah theologhe

seminary. In this place he labored unhis death, a period of thirty-five years, being also rector of St. SylX^anus's parish. ical til

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died Oct. 15, 1885, in Nashotah, Wis. Casper Willis, soldier, was born May 3, 1871, in West Gouldsboro, Maine. He was educated in the public schools of New England. In 1898-99 he was first lieutenant in Cole,

the two hundred and second regiment New York volunteer infantry; and then became a private and sergeant in company B, twenty-sixth United States infantry. In 1899-1901 he was first lieutenant in the forty-seventh United States infantry; he became second ,. lieutenant with the Ninth United States cavalry 1901; and a month later was pro,

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Cole, Charles Cleaves, soldier, lawyer, jurwas born May 22, 1841, in Hiram, Maine.

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served as private to captain in company seventeenth regiment Maine infantry in the civil war. In 1879-93 he practiced law

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Thomas, manufacturer, inventor,

1838 in England. Among his inventions are a lawn mower; and a machine for making felt. He is president of the Chadborn and Colwell manufacturing company in

science.

Alfred Dodge, educator, scientist, was born Dec. 18, 1861, in Rutland, Vt. In 1885 he began teaching physics; and since 1907 he has been professor of physics at Vassar college of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He is a fellow of the American association for the Cole,

ton, S.C.

Colcord, Roswell K., manufacturer, governor, was born April 25, 1839, in Searsport, Maine. He has been engaged in mining and milling in Nevada; and in 1895 was the seventh governor of Nevada. Since 1898 he has been superintendent of the United States mint at Carson City, Nev.

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Washington, D.C: and in 1892 was associate justice of the supreme court for the District of Columbia. He died in 1905 in Washington, D.C.