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of independence. He enlisted in the revolutionary war as lieutenenant-colonel. He aided in building the first bridge from Newport to the mainland. He died Dec. 17, 1813, in Newport, R.I.

Cooke, John Esten, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 3, 1830, in Winchester, Va. He served in the confederate army during the civil war. He wrote much historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most famous of his romances. He was the author of Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of Jefferson; Surry of Eagle's Nest; Wear-

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ing the Gray; Lady Pokahontas; Henry St. John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley's Idea; Professor Presseusee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier and Hilt to Hilt. He wrote also and Hilt to Hilt. He wrote also Life ol Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biogiaphy; and Virginia, a History of the People. He died Sept. 27, 1886, in Boyce, Va.

Cooke, John P., musician, composer, was born Oct. 31, 1820, in England. His father was a musician and actor. After leading the orchestra of the Adelphi, the Strand and Astley's, all of London, he came in 1850 to New York as leader at Burton's theater in Chambers street, and was afterward musical director at several other

New York

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He composed and arranged music for the Winter's Tale, Midsummer Night's Dream, and other Shakespearian plays. He ters.

died Nov.

4,

1865, in

New York

City.

Cooke, John R., soldier. He entered the army in 1855 as second lieutenant of the eighth infantry, became first lieutenant in 1861. He then entered the confederate service, where he rose to the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died April 9, 1891, in Richmond, Va. Cooke, John Rogers, lawyer, was bom in 1788 in Bermuda. He practiced law in Virginia with distinction for more than forty years; and during that time was concerned in nearly all the great eases carried to the higher court of that state. In 1814 he was a member of the Virginia legislature. In 1829 he was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of Virginia; and served, with Chief-Justice Marshall, exPresident Madison and John Randolph, on the committee of seven that drafted that instrument. He died Dec. 10, 1854, in Richmond, Va. Cooke, Joseph Brown, surgeon, author, was was born March 24, 1868, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Since 1903 he has been obstetric surgeon to the New York polyclinic medical school and hospital. He is the author of Manual of Obstetrical Technique;

and Textbook of Obstetrics. Cooke, Joseph Piatt, congressman, was born in 1730 in Danbury, Conn. In 1784-88 he was a delegate from Connecticut to the

continental

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Danbury, Conn. Cooke, Josiah Parsons, chemist, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1827, in Boston, Mass. He was professor of chemistry at Harvard university in 1850-94. He was the author of Religion and Chemistry; Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical Problems and Reactions Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New Chemistry; The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; and Laboratory Practice. He died Sept. 3, 1894, in Newport, R.I. Cooke, Josiah Piatt, congressman, was born in 1730 in Danbury, Conn. He was a delegate to congress from Connecticut under the old confederation in 1784-88. He died in 1816, in Danbury, Conn. Cooke, LoTSnzo Wesley, soldier, was bom June 8, 1847, in Round Top, N.Y. In 1862 he served as a corporal in the twenty-seventh regiment Wisconsin volunteers; and in 1906 attained the rank of brigadier-general. He was retired in 1006 at his own request, after forty-four years of service. Cooke, Lorrin Alanson, business man, state senator, governor, was born April 6, 1831, in New Marlboro, Mass. In 1856 he was elected to the Connecticut state legislature and was state senator in 1882-83. He was lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1885-87 and 189597; and the thirty-eighth of Connecticut governor in 1897-99. He died in 1902 in Hart^ ford, Conn. Cooke, Martin Warren, lawyer, author, was born March 3, 1840, in Whitehall, N.Y. He was the oflScial attorney of the university of Rochester. He was the author of a



entitled The Human Mystery in Hamdied Feb. 23, 1898, in Rochester, N.Y. Cooke, Nicholas, colonial-governor, was born Feb. 3, 1717, in Providence, R.I. He was colonial governor of Rhode Island in 1775-78. He died Sept. 14, 1783, in Provi-

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dence, R.I.

Cooke, Nicholas Francis, physician, author, bom Aug. 35, 1829, in Providence, R.I. He was a prominent physician of Chicago, 111. He was the author of Satan in Society; and Antiseptic Medication. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in Chicago, 111. Cooke, Parsons, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 18, 1800, in Hadley, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Lynn. He was the author of History of German Ana-

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baptism; and A Century of Puritanism and a Century of Its Opposites. He died Feb. 13, 1864, in Lynn, Mass. Cooke, Philip Pendleton, lawyer, poet, was born Oct. 36, 1816, in Martinsburg, Va. He was the author of The Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems. He died Jan. 20, 1850, in Virginia.

Cooke, Philip St. George, soldier, author,

was born June 13, 1809, near Leesburg, Va. He was a, brigadier-general in the United States army; and was retired in 1873. He was the author of Scenes and Adventures in