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Conjmgham, Sedmond, antiquarian, was 19, 1781, in Philadelphia, Pa. He inherited from his paternal grandfather an estate in the county Donegal, Ireland, yielding two thousand pounds a year; and subsequently spent some time in Ireland. During hia stay abroad he became intimate with Curran, Grattan and other prominent Irishmen. He settled in Luzerne county. Pa.; and for several years represented that district in the Pennsylvania legislature. He devoted much of his leisure to antiquarian research; and contributed valuable papers of historical interest to the American philosophical society and to the Historical society of Pennsylvania, of which he was a member. He made a specialty of the early history of Pennsylvania and the aborigines of Lancaster county. He died June 16, 1846, in Lancaster, county, Pa.

born Sept.

Conzelman, William J., manufacturer, pubofficial, was born May 30, 1865, in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in the public lic

his native city. He is a successful manufacturer; and is now connected with the Globe distillery of the standard distilling and distributing company of Pekin, 111.; and is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of that city. He has been trustee of the St. Charles school for boys; president of the Pekin library; and chairman of the senatorial committee for the thirtieth district of Illinois. He is colonel in the Illinois national guard; and was on Governor Yates' staff with rank of colonel.

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Cook, Abraham, clergyman, was bom July 1774, in Franklin county, Va. In 1809 he was ordained to the ministry; and became pastor of Indian Fork, Six Mile and Buffalo Lick, churches in Shelby county; and of Mount Carmel in Franklin county, Ky. He died Feb. 10, 1854, in Missouri. Cook, Albert John, naturalist, author, was bom Aug. 30, 1842, in Owosso, Mich. He was a professor of zoology at Michigan agricultural college. He is author of Injurious Insects of Michigan; Manual of the Apiary; Silo and Silage; Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush. Cook, Albert Stanburrough, educator, author, was born March 6, 1853, in Montville, N.J. He was professor of the English language and literature in the university of California in 1882-89; and since 1889 has filled the same chair in Yale university of New Haven, Conn. In 1897 he became president of the Modern language association of America. He has written The Artistic Ordering of Life; edited Sievers' Old English Grammar Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment; The Christ of Cynewulf; Sidney's Defense of Poetry; and other works. Cook, Arthur, lawyer, jurist. In 1865 he was an associate justice of the supreme 6,



court of Pennsylvania; and in 1686-90 he

was

chief justice.

Cook, Burton C, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born on May 11, 1819, in Monroe county, N.Y. He was state's attorney for the ninth circuit

In

1846-52.

He

was a member of the senate state 1852-60. He twice placed Abraham Lincoln in nomination for the presidency of the United States. During 1865-73 he was a representative from Illinois to the thirtyninth, fortieth, fortyfirst and forty-second congresses as a republican. He died Aug. 17, 1894, in Evanston, 111. Cook, Charles Alston, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was bom Get. 7, 1848, in Warrenton, N.C. In 1SS6-S8 he attended the university of Xortli Carolina; and in 1870 graduated from Princeton university of New Jersey. In 1886-88 and 1894-96 he was a member of the Xorth Carolina state senate; and in 1896-98 was a representative in the North Carolina state legislature. In 1889-93 he was United States district attorney for the eastern district of North Carolina. He is a retired colonel of the state national guard. In 1901-03 he was associate-justice of the state supreme court of North Carolina. In 1908 he became a representative in the Oklahoma Illinois

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state legislature.

Chatham, journalist, art author, was born on Sept. 8, 1828, in Dorchester, Mass. He is an art critic of New York City and editor of the Studio. He has edited Liibke's History of Art; and is the author of The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks; and The Central Park. He died in 1900 In Cook, Clarence

critic,



N.Y. Cook, Daniel Pope, lawyer, congressman, was bom in 1795 in Scott county, Ky. He moved to the territory of Illinois in 1815; and was the first attorney-general of the state of Illinois. 1819-37 he was a representative from Illinois to the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. Fishhill,

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died Oct. 16, 1827.

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merchant,

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June 3, 1847, in Chicago, 111. In 1868 he became president of the American wine company. In connection with the manufacture of wine the company has developed a variety of grape which is adapted to their purpose; and is universally known as Cook grape. Cook, Ezekdel Hanson, soldier, educator, was born Dec. 18, 1845, in Madrid, Maine. In 1865 he served in the civil war as quartermaster-sergeant. For twenty-five years he was engaged in educational works; and in 1888-89 was president of New York state teachers association.