Page:The American Cyclopædia (1879) Volume V.djvu/22

18 949 of oats, 45,996 of sweet potatoes, 15,845 Ibs. of rice, 42,366 of wool, 261 bales of cotton, and 12,231 gallons of molasses. There were 403 horses, 3,925 milch cows, 10,384 other cattle, 16,036 sheep, and 12,779 swine. Capital, Douglas.  II. A S. E. county of Alabama, watered by Pea river; pop. in 1870, 6,171, of whom 1,020 were colored. The former area was 900 sq. m., but portions have been taken to form Crenshaw and Geneva counties. The surface is somewhat hilly, and the soil generally poor. Pine timber grows in great abundance. The chief productions in 1870 were 121,352 bushels of Indian corn, 28,254 of sweet potatoes, 2,004 bales of cotton, 13,098 gallons of molasses, and 8,975 Ibs. of rice. There were 617 horses, 2,142 milch cows, 5,346 other cattle, 4,059 sheep, and 9,433 swine. Capital, Elba.  III. A central county of Tennessee; area, 320 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 10,237, of whom 1,501 were colored. It has an elevated and hilly surface, and a fertile soil. It is traversed by the McMinnville and Manchester railroad. The principal productions in 1870 were 43,075 bushels of wheat, 10,226 of rye, 309,503 of Indian corn, 25,462 of oats, and 30 bales of cotton. There were 2,506 horses, 1,881 milch cows, 2,979 other cattle, 8,107 sheep, and 17,226 swine; 3 flour mills, 5 saw mills, 1 paper mill, 1 distillery, and 2 wool-carding and clothdressing establishments. Capital, Manchester.  COFFEY, a S.E. county of Kansas, intersected by the Neosho river; area, 576 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 6,201. The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroad crosses it. The chief productions in 1870 were 47,745 bushels of wheat, 268,218 of Indian corn, 90,190 of oats, 26,879 of potatoes. 14,275 tons of hay, 140,602 Ibs. of butter, and 36,702 of wool. There were 2,762 horses, 3,459 milch cows, 6,247 other cattle, 11,917 sheep, and 2,855 swine; 5 manufactories of carriages and wagons, 3 of saddlery and harness, 1 of woollen goods, 2 flour mills, and 7" saw mills. Capital, Burlington.  COFFIN, Sir Isaac, an English admiral, born in Boston, Mass., May 16, 1759, died at Cheltenham, Eng., July 23, 1839. He was educated at the public schools in Boston, and having entered the British navy as midshipman in 1773, under the patronage of Admiral Montagu, served in various ships on the American station, being finally attached to the Romney, flag ship of his patron, off Newfoundland. In 1778 he was appointed lieutenant, and in 1781 commander. On March 16, 1781, he acted as signal lieutenant to Admiral Arbuthnot in the action off Cape Henry, and in 1782 was present as a volunteer under Admiral Hood in the engagement between Rodney and De Grasse. In 1788, irritated at having been deprived of his commission for an informality then common in the service, he went to Brabant and gave his aid to the patriots. The sentence against him was soon reversed, and he reentered the British navy with his former rank. In attempting to save the life of a sailor who fell overboard he received an injury which incapacitated him from active duty, and was placed in charge of the depot at Leith; thence was sent commissioner to Corsica; thence to Elba; subsequently to Lisbon as head of the naval establishment there; and in 1798, when Minorca fell into the hands of the English, he was appointed superintendent of the arsenal at Port Mahon. In 1804 he was advanced to the rank of rear admiral of the blue; next year was made a baronet; in 1808 vice admiral, and in 1814 admiral. In 1818 he was elected member of parliament for Ilchester, and retained his seat till the dissolution in 1826. His speeches were chiefly on naval affairs, and distinguished for blunt, sailor-like honesty, with a strong vein of facetiousness. He always retained a warm affection for his native city, and visited it many times. In 1826 he founded a school in Nantucket, still called by his name.  COFFIN, James Henry, an American mathematician, born in Northampton, Mass., Sept. 6, 1806, died in Easton, Pa., Feb. 6, 1873. He graduated at Ainherst college in 1838, was afterward professor in Williams college till 1843, and superintended the establishment of Greylock observatory, on the mountain of that name in western Massachusetts, with the first combined self-registering aerometer and barometer. He was professor of mathematics and astronomy in Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., from 1846 till his death. He published " Solar and Lunar Eclipses," " A Discussion on the Meteoric Fire Ball," and " Winds of the Northern Hemisphere " (issued by the Smithsonian institution, 1851; enlarged and revised, 1873).  COGALNICEANO, or Cogalnitchanu, Michael, a Roumanian historian and statesman, born about 1806. He filled the newly established chair of history at Jassy, founded scientific, literary, and political journals, promoted the emancipation of the gypsies, and became prominent, under Prince Alexander Cuza's administration, in the legislature and as minister for Moldavia. After the union of Wallachia and Moldavia in December, 1861, he became prime minister, and was the chief promoter of the new electoral law of May 14, 1864, and of the arbitrary constitution; but he was obliged to retire shortly before the forced abdication of Cuza, Feb. 23, 1866. He was chiefly instrumental in the foundation of the university at Jassy. He has since been reelected to the chamber, and under Prince Charles was minister of the interior from November, 1868, to Jan. 24, 1870. He has published Histoire de la Valachie et de la Moldavie (Berlin, 1837); Archiva romanesca (1841); and Letopisitz, a collection of Roumanian historical documents (3 vols., Jassy, 1845-'52).  COGHETTI, Francesco, an Italian painter, born in Bergamo, Oct. 4, 1804. He studied in that city under Diotti, and in Rome under Camuccini, and executed various fine altarpieces for churches in Bergamo, which led to his being employed upon paintings for the cathedral and other buildings. For the villa Torlonia at<section end="Coghetti" />