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 146 COWLEY. CRANE. squadron, he continued till the close of the war. His naval career was eminently creditable. Though actively engaged in his profes- sion, Judge Cowley has been an occasional contributor to the Boston and Lowell press, and has found time for several his- torical and literary works, which have been well received. His " History of Lowell " was published in 186S ; " Famous Divorces of All Ages," in 1S78 ; " Historical Sketch of Middlesex County," in the " Middlesex County Manual," in 1S78 ; "Leaves from a Lawyer's Life Afloat and Ashore," in 1S79 ; "Our Divorce Courts," in 1879; and " Reminiscences of James C. Ayer and the Town of Ayer," in 1879. Mr. Cowley has served as member of the Lowell city government, of its school com- mittee and other executive boards ; has twice been a candidate for the attorney- generalship of Massachusetts — the last time on the ticket headed by Wendell Phillips in 1870. Mr. Cowley's chief honors have been earned as a reformer. He was a zealous advocate of the passage of the "Ten Hour CHARLES COWLEY. Law," and was its champion before joint special committees of the Legislatures of 1869, '71 and other years. He drafted the charter of the grand lod^e of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin ; subsequently he successfully defended the same before the supreme court (Mass. Reports, 113; 179), and was largely instrumental in organizing the Bureau of Labor. He has also borne an active part in the reformation of the divorce laws. Mr. Cowley is a member of various chari- table orders and associations, but has been especially prominent in the order of the Knights of Pythias, for which he has writ- ten " Life Legends of Damon and Pythias ; " he has been at the head of the order in his state, and has sat in the supreme lodge of the world. Mr. Cowley is a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of the Bristol (England) and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, and other learned bodies. He is president of the Port Royal Society, composed of survivors of the De- partment of the South and the South Atlan- tic blockading squadron. In 1885 Nor- wich University of Vermont conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. Mr. Cowley is unmarried. COY, EDWARD G., son of Edward G. and Elizabeth E. (Brown) Coy, was born in Ithaca, Tompkins county, N. Y , August 23, 1844. Passing through the public schools, he then prepared for college at YV'illiston Seminary, Easthampton, and was gradua- ted from Yale in the class of 1869. He taught school in Cincinnati for a time, then at Williston Seminary, and was after- ward tutor in Yale College. He is now the professor of Greek at Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, having acted as principal of the academy from January to July, 1889. Professor Coy was married in New Ha- ven, Conn., November 25, 1873,10 Helen E., daughter of Rev. Samuel D. and Mary Sher- man (Skinner) Marsh. Of this union were three children : Mary Dexter, Sherman Lockwood, and Edward Harris. CRANE, JOSHUA EDDY, son of Barzil- lai and Lydia (Eddy) Crane, was born in Berkley, Bristol county, July 9, 1823, and died in Bridgewater, August 5, 1888. He was educated in the public and private schools of his native town. At the age of sixteen, he was placed in the counting-room of Messrs. Griffin & Eddy, of New York City, and subsequently became connected in the mercantile busi- ness with Morton Eddy, of Bridgewater. In 1848 he purchased his partner's interest, and carried on the business for more than forty years.