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pal of the Wesleyan academy at Wilbraham, Mass; and in 1874-84 was president of Claflin university and state agricultural college at Orangeburg, S.C. He died Sept. 18, 1888, in Newton Center, Mass. Cooke, Edmund Vance, lecturer, author, poet, was born June 5, 1866, in Ontario, Canada. He was educated principally in the schools of Cleveland,

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Cooke, Edward Dean, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1849, in Cascade, Iowa. He was elected a representative in the Illinois state legislature in 1882 as a republican. In 1895-97 he was a representative from Illinois to the fifty-fourth congress. He died June 24, 1897, in Washington, D.C. Cooke, Edwin Francis, soldier, was born Sept. 11, 1835, in Brooklyn, Pa. He entered the union service at the beginning of the civil war as a captain in the second New York light cavalry, rose to the command of his regiment; and finally became chief of staff in General Kilpatrick's cavalry division. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers. He died Aug. 6, 1867,

in Santiago, Chili.

Cooke, Eleutheros, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1787, in Granville, N.Y. In 1831-33 he was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-second congress; and served for many years in the legislature of that state before and after entering congress. He died Dec. 27, 1865, in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the father of the distinguished bankers Jay, Pitt and Henry D. Cooke. Cooke, Elisha, physician, lawyer, was born Sept. 16, 1637, in Boston, Mass. He was elected councilor in 1694; and continued in the council until 1703. He served in places of public trust over forty years. He died Oct. 31, 1715, in Boston. Mass. Cooke, Elisha, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 20, 1678, in Boston, Mass. He was a representative to the general court in 1713-34. He was appointed a justice of the court of common pleas in Suffolk county in 1730. He was long the leader of the popular party in the province. He published several political tracts. He died Aug. 24, 1737, in Boston, Mass. Cooke, George Willis, naval officer, was bom Dec. 12, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States navy; and in 1898 was re-

tired.

In 1906 he was advanced to the rank

of rear admiral.

Cooke, George Willis, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 23, 1848, in Comstock Mich. He is a unitarian clergyman; and has attained prominence as a lecturer. He is the

author of George Eliot, a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson; his Life, Writings, and Philosophy Poets and Problems, Studies of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; The Clapboard Trees Parish, Dedham, a History; Early Letters of George William Curtis to John S. Dwight; and John S. Dwight. Cooke, Mrs. Grace Mac Gowan, writer, author, was born Sept. 11, 1867, in Grand Rapids, Ohio. She was the first president of the Tennessee Woman's press club. She is the author of Mistress Joy Return; The Last Word; Huldah; A Gourd Fiddle, and The

Grapple. Cooke,

Helen Temple, educator, college president, was born April 13, 1865, in Rutland, Vt. In 1882-94 she conduated a private school in Rutland, Vt. Since 1899 she has been principal of the Dana hall school. Cooke, Henry D., journalist, merchant, governor, was born Nov. 23 1835, in Sandusky City, Ohio. The idea of a steamship line from New York to California by way of the Panama was suggested by him. He subsequently resided in California; had much to do with the shipping of the Pacific, and was first to announce, through a despatch from the military governor of California to Washington, the discovery of gold in the Sacramento Valley. He returned to the east, and was associated with the United States Gazette, Sandusky Register, and the Ohio

the

State Journal. He was a presidential elector in 1856; in 1861 became a partner in the house of Jay Cooke and company. In 1871-73 was the first governor of the District of Columbia. He was the son of Eleutheros Cooke, a distinguished orator and congressman and brother of Jay Cooke, the eminent financier. He died Feb. 24, 1881, in Georgetown, D.C. Cooke, Mrs. Isabelle Walker, educator, artist, was bom March 15, 1834, in Meriden, Conn. She has been an educator in Oregon; and is now assistant In Orphans home in San Francisco, Call. She is the author of Tears and Victory ; a volume of poems. Cooke, J. Edmund V., author, poet, was born June 5, 1866, in Canada. He has attained prominence as a lecturer and platform reader of his own writings. He is the author of Patch of Pansies, a volume of

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poems. Cooke, Jay, financier, was born Aug. 10, 1821, in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1861 he started the banking firm of Jay Cooke and company

was the owner of Ogontz college and Gibraltar Island and its beautiful mansion. He

died Feb. 16, 1905, in Ogontz, Pa.

Cooke, John, soldier, was born in 1744 in Tiverton, R.I. He was a member of the colonial general assembly that passed th&