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Colgrove, Silas, soldier, was borh in New York. In 1861 he became captain in the eighth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry; and in 1864 was brevetted brigadier-general Golhoun, Edmund Ross, naval officer, was born May 6, 1821, in Pennsylvania. In 1863 he commanded the steamer Ladona, and afterward the monitor Weehawken. He was commandant at Mare Island navy-yard in

gist in 1881-85. In 1870-79 he published annually his reports as assistant geologist; and as geologist in 1881-84; and for the years 1879-80 reports of the bureau of statistics and geology. He died in 1899, in Indianapolis, Ind.

1879-80; and inspector of vessels in California at the time of his retirement in 1886, with rank of rear-admiral. He died March ]7, 1897, in Washington, D.C. Colhoun, John, naval officer, was born in 1803 in Pennsylvania. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1821; and was promoted to the rank of commodore in 1867. He died

ant of the telegraph erected on Castle Clinton. He is said to have built the first steam engine in America. He died Oct. 4, 1816, in

New

Nov.

30, 1872, in York City. Colie, Edward Martin, la yer, author, was born Oct. 37, 1852 in Milburh, N.J. Since

1876 he has practiced law in Newark, N..J. is the author of John Ruskin as an Ethical Teacher. CoUamer, Jacob, lawyer, jurist. United States senator, was born in 1792 in Troy, X.Y. He was a member of the state legislature; and in 1833-41 was judge of the supreme court of Vermont. In 1843-49 he was a representative from Vermont to the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth congresses. In 1849-50 he was postmastergeneral in the cabinet of President Taylor; and was soon afterward appointed on the supreme bench of his state, which office he held until 18.J4. In 1855-65 he was United States senator. He died Nov. 8, 1865, in Woodstock, Vt. CoUamore, Davis, merchant, manufacturer, was born Oct. 7, 1830, in Scituate, Mass. In 1843 he established himself in business in New York City. In 1886 the business was reorganized as a stock company, of which he

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was president. He died Aug. York City.

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Henry, railroad president, was London, England. He is president of the Midland terminal railway at Denver, Col. Colleton, James, colonial governor. In 1688 he was made governor with the rank of landgrave, and endowed with forty-elghv thousand acres of land. The legislative assembly impeached and disfranchised him; and banished him from the province. He died in South Carolina. CoUett, John, geologist, state senator, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1838, 'in Eugene, Ind. He was a member of the Indiana state senate in 1871; assistant state geologist in 1870-78; a member of the state house commission in 1878-79; chief of the bureau of statistics and geology in 1879-80; and geoloCollbran,

born Dec.

24, 1852, in

CoUes, Christopher, engineer, philosopher,

was born about 1738 in Ireland. During the war of 1813 he was the projector and attend-

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"ork City. Collens, Thomas

Wharton, lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 23, 1812, in New Orleans, La. He was the author of The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of the Labor Movement; and The Eden of Labour. He died Nov. 3, 1879, in New Orleans, La. Collie, George Lucius, educator, geologist, author, was born Aug. 11, 1857, in Delavan, Wis. Since 1893 he has been professor of geology at Beloit college. He is the author of Supplement to Frye's Geography; and

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Mrs. Ada Lahgworthy, author, poet was born Dec. 23, 1843, in Dubuque, Iowa. She was a pupil in a private school at Dubuque, Iowa; and in graduated 1861 she Collier,

from the Lasell seminary at Auburndale, aiass. In 1868 she be-

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came the wife of Robert Collier; and has since lived in Dubuque, Iowa. She began to

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her girlhood. the author of sketches, tales

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and several novels, and the poem entitled Lilith. the Legend of the First Woman. Collier, Charles Augustus, banker, was born July 19, 1848, in Atlanta, Ga. In 1887 he was president of the Piedmont exposition: and alderman of that city in 1888; mayor of Atlanta in 1897; and in 1900 United States commissioner to the Paris ex-

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died Sept. 28, 1900, in Atlanta. Frederick H., soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1863 he was colonel in the eighth regiment Pennsylvania infantry; and in 186; was brevetted brigadier-general of position.

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volunteers. Collier, Henry Watkins, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 17, 1801, in Lunenburg county, Va. In 1827-37 he was judge of the circuit court of Tuscaloosa, Ala. and chief justice, of Alabama in 1837-49. He was the twelfth governor in 1849-53. He died Aug. 28, 1855, at Bailey's Springs, Ala. Collier, J. W., congressman. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Mississippi to the sixty-first congress as a democrat. Collier, James, soldier, lawyer, was born in 1789. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.