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siding with the United States government in the civil war. He was a member of the Societe des economistes, Paris, of the American philosophi- cal society and of the Pennsjdvania historical society, Philadelphia. Among his publications not before mentioned are : TJie Harmony of Interests (New York, 1852) ; The Slave-Trade, Domestic and Foreign : Why it Exists and How it viay be Extinguished, Letters on International Copyright (Philadelpliia. 1853, 1868) ; Letters to the President on the Foreign and Domestic Policy of the Union, and its Effects as Exhibited in the Condition of the People and the States (1858) : A Se7-ies of Letters on Political Economy (1860, and another in 1865) ; The Way to Outdo England rcithont Fighting her (1865) ; Eeview of the Decade 1857 to 1867 (1867) ; Revieic of Wells' Report (1868) ; Shall uie have Peace ? (1869) ; and Tlie Unity of Law (1872). He died Oct. 13. 1879.

CAREY, Joseph, clergyman, was born in New York city, Dec. 23, 1839. He came of English and Scotch ancestry, his mother being a descendant of the Gordons of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was fitted for college at Newbm-gh academy, and was graduated at St. Stephen's college, Annan- dale, N. Y., in 1861, when he entered the general theological seminary of the P. E. church in New York city. He was ordained a deacon in October, 1864, and a priest in the following February. He ■was rector of Grace church, Waterford; Christ church, Ballston Spa; and from 1873 of Bethesda church, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He received the degree of S.T.D. from St. Stephen's college in 1878.

CAREY, Joseph M., senator, was born in Sussex county, Del., Jan. 19, 1845; son of Robert H. and Susan (Davis) Carey. He was educated at the Fort Edward collegiate institute and at Union coUege, New York, and in 1867 finished his law course at the University of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar and practised for two years in Philadelphia, removing in 1869 to Wyoming, where he was appointed U. S. district attorney for that territory. From 1871 to 1876 he wasj associate judge of the Wyoming supreme court, and from 1872 to 1876 he was a member of the United States centennial commission. He was elected mayor of Cheyenne in 1881, and was twice re-elected, serving until 1885, when he took his seat as territorial delegate in the 49th Congress. He was re-elected delegate to the 50th and 51st congresses, and introduced the bill which admitted Wyoming as a state. On Nov. 15, 1890, he was elected to the U. S. senate as the first senator to represent the state in Congress, his term of service expiring March 3, 1895. In 1894 Union college conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.

CAREY, Matthew, philanthropist, was born in Ireland Jan. 28, 1760. He was liberally edu- cated, and at the age of fifteen he adopted the printer's trade, and two years later published an address to the Irish Catholics, which was so offensive to the authorities that, to escape arrest, he was obliged to flee to France. He there met Benjamin Franklin, who befriended him and gave him such advice as influenced his entire subse- quent career. Returning to Ireland at the age of eighteen, he became a power, and contributed largely to the subsequent liberal legislation re- specting Ireland ; but for a violent attack upon the ministry, Mr. Carey was brought before parlia- ment and imprisoned until 1784. On his release he immigrated to the United States, landed in Philadelphia in November, 1784, and soon after- wards engaged in the publication of the Phila- delphia Herald and the American Museum, the latter a monthly magazine, which he continued through thirteen half-yearly volumes. He also wrote numei'ous pamphlets on the topics of the day, all of which had a marked inflvience on pub- lic opinion. In 1791 he opened, in connection with his printing business, a small book store, which gradtially grew into one of the largest and most important publishing houses in the country. Mr. Carey, in connection with Bishop White, organized the first Sunday-school society that was formed in the United States, and he was, throughout his life, active in all public enter- prises that were calculated to promote the inter- ests of the city and state of his adoption. He set on foot the system of internal improvements that resulted in the construction of the Pennsylvania canals, and himself established many of the charitable institutions for Avhich Philadelphia is so justly celebrated. His friend, John Sargeant, wrote of him: " He has given more time, money and labor to the public than any man I am ac- quainted with, and in truth he has founded in Philadelphia a school of public spirit." He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., Sept. 16, 1839.

CARHART, Henry Smith, phjsicist, was born in Coeymans, Albany county, N. Y., March 27, 1844; son of Daniel S. and Margaret (Martin) Carhart. He supported himself at school by teaching, and was gradviated at the Wesleyan university as valedictorian of the class of 1869, and then taught Latin in the Hudson river insti- tute, Claverack, N. Y., for two years. After one year spent at Yale he became instructor of civil engineering and physics at the Northwest- ern university, Evanston, 111. ; in 1873 he became professor of physics in the same institiition. He served on the international jury of awards at the Paris electrical exhibition in 1881, and then pur- sued a course of study at the University of Ber- lin. He remained at the Northwestern university