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Copeland, Charles Townsend, educator, auwas bom April 37, 1860, in Callais, Maine. Since 1893 he has been lecturer on English literature at Harvard university. He is the author of life of Edwin Booth;

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and Tennyson's The Princess. Copeland, Edward Bingham, botanist, scientist, was born Sept. 30, 1873, in Monroe, Wis. In 1897-1903 he was a professor of botany; the last two years being at the

Copp, Mrs. Helen Ranklin, sculptor, artist, 4, 1853, in Atlanta, 111. She received from the art institute of Chicago a medal for sculpture. She has modeled portraits of a number of prominent citizens of Chicago, besides many ideal works, Coppee, Henry, soldier, educator, college president, author, was born Oct. 13, 1821,. in Savannah, Ga. He was president of Lehigu university in 1866-75; and professor there until his death. During the Mexican war he served as an officer in the American army. He was the author of History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors; Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; and Manual of Court Martial. He died March 22, 1895, in Bethlehem, Pa. Coppin, Levi J., journalist, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 34, 1848, in Fredericktown, Md. He' has been pastor in Philadelphia city missions and later of A. M. E. churches in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He is the nfanager of the A. M. E. Church Review. He is the author of The Relations of Baptized Children to the Church; and Key

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Stanford university. Since 1903 he has been botanist for the Philippine government. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. Coi>eland, George D., business man, lawyer, poet, was born in Waddington, N.Y. In 188186 he was postmaster of San Diego, Cal. and was instrumental in securing for that city its bountiful supply of pure mountain water, which is brought from the mountains fifty miles away. He is the president of the electric railway and lighting firm of that city. Copeland, Joseph T., soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 6, 1813, in New Castle, Maine. In 1846-49 he was judge of the St. Clair county court of Michigan; was elected circuit judge in 1851; and in 1851-57 was a judge of the supreme court of Michigan. He served through the civil war; and was promoted brigadier general of volunteers. Copeland, Joseph T., soldier, was born in 1830, in Michigan. He served through the civil war, and was appointed a brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He died May 6, 1893. Copeland, Lucius Frederick, lecturer, lawyer, author, was bom July 20, 1841, in Rochester, N.Y. He has delivered nearly four thousand lectures; and is the author of many newspaper articles of both prose and poetry. Copeland, Patrick, pioneer, educator. He was employed as a chaplain in the service of the East India company. He first suggested i)he idea of a college in America; and may be justly considered as the pioneer of educa-

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professor of pathology and bacteriol-

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He is the author of Manual ot Pathology; and Textbook of Practical Hyphia, Pa. giene.

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Coppinger, John Joseph, soldier, was born He joined the papal army. In 1861 he was made captain in fourteenth infantry; the and at the close of the civil war was colonel of the fifteenth York cavalry. New He made a brilliant record and was brevetted major and later lieutenant-colonel. After the civil war he was transferred to the twenty-third United States infantry, and was brevetted colonel in battles with the Indians in 1866-68. He was commissioned brigadier-general in 1895; and major-general United States volunteers Oct. 11, 1834, in Ireland.

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Copeland, Royal Samuel, physician, author, was born Nov. 7, 1868, in Dexter, Mich. Since 1895 he has been professor of ophthalmology and otology at the university of Michigan. He is the author of Refraction Textbook. Copley, John Singleton, painter, artist, was born July 3, 1737, in Boston, Mass. He is said to have been the only native painter of real skill which the New World could boast before the revolution. The Death of Lord Chatham is his masterpiece. He died Sept. 9, 1815, in London, England. Copley, Lionel, colonial governor, was born probably in England. After the province of Maryland had been delivered over to the crown by the protestant associators, he was in 1699 its first royal governor. He died

Copway, George, lecturer, author, poet, was born in August, 1830, in Michigan. He was an Indian of the Ojibway tribe and a journalist in New York City. He was the author of Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway's American Indian; The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The Ojibway Conquest, a poem; and Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe. He died in 1869 in New York City. Coquillard, Alexis, pioneer, trader, was

Sept. 13, 1693. Coplin, William M. L., physician, author, was born Nov. 1, 1864, in Clarksburg, W.Va.

born Sept. 38, 1795, in Detroit, Mich. In 1815 he became an Indian trader of furs. In 1833 he was the first white settler of South Bend, Ind. He died Jan. 8, 1855, in South Bend, Ind. Coquillett, Daniel William, eiffiomologist, scientist, was born Jan. 23, 1856, in MeHenry county, 111. In 1885 he was employed by the United States government to perfect a method to exterminate the destructive