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until 1886, during which time a laboratory was erected and furnished v\4th modern apparatus. In 1886 he accepted the chair of physics in the University of Michigan. He was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, a foreign member of the (London) institution of electrical engineers, and a fellow of the American institute of electrical engineers. He was one of the official delegates chosen to represent the United States at the Chicago world's electrical congress, and was president of the board of judges of award for the department of electricity at the Columbian exposition in 1893. He was married in 1876 to Ellen M. Soul^, dean of the woman's college of the Northwestern university. He has published, besides numerous contributions to scientific and technical journals, Primary Bat- teries (1891) ; Elements of Physics (with H. N. Chute. 1892) ; University Physics Part I., Me- chanics, Sound, and Light (1894) ; Electrical Measurements (with Geo. W. Patterson. Jr., 1895), and University Physics, Part II., Heat, Elec- tricity, and Magnciisin (1896).

CARHART, Jeremiah, inventor, was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in September, 1813. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a cabinet- maker, and worked at his trade for some years. Between 1S36 and 1846 he secured patents on several inventions, among them being the exhaustion bellows and tubular reed board, afterwards used in all reed instruments. In partnership with E. P. Needham, he began the manufacture of organs and melodeons at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1846, and the firm, afterward removing to New York, enlarged its business to include the manufacture of several ingenious machines invented by Mr. Carhart, for use in making reeds and reed boards. He died in New York city, Aug. 16, 1868.

CARLETON, Henry (born Coxe), jurist, was born in Virginia in 1785. He was graduated at Yale in 1806, after which he went to Mississippi, where he was engaged in various occupations until 1814, when he removed to New Orleans, La. He served as a lieutenant of infantry under Gen- eral Jackson in the 1814-'15 campaign, which resulted in the capture of New Oi leans, and after the war he engaged in the practice of law. He was United States attorney for the eastern dis- trict of Louisiana, and judge of the supreme court of the same state in 1832-'39. He then travelled extensively, and finally settled in Phila- delphia, where he engaged in biblical and meta- physical studies. He was a stanch supporter of the Union during the civil war, notwithstanding his property in the south. He was twice mar- ried; first, to Mile. d'Avezac de Castera, and after her death to Miss Vanderburgh. He was the

author of Libert i/ and Necessity (1857). of an Essay on the Mill (1863), and, in collaboration with Mr. L. Moreau, of a translation of sucli por- tions of Las Siete Partidas. a celebrated Spanish code of law, as obtained in Louisiana. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Marcli 28, 1863.

CARLETON, Henry Quy, playwright, was born at Fort Union, New Mexico, June 21, 1855. He was graduated from Santa Clara college, San Francisco, Cal., and, removing to New Orleans in 1876, began writing acceptable verses, stories and .sketches. In 1881 he wrote his first play, Memnon. an Egyptian tragedy, which was pur- chased for five thousand dollars by John Mc- CuUough, who regarded it as one of the best tragedies produced since Shakespeare's time, but did not present it. In 1882 Carleton re- moved to New York citj-, and in 1883 became editor of Life. He resigned in 1884, to devote his entire attention to dramatic authorship. In that year he produced Victor Durand, a society drama. Tlien followed The Pembertons, and, in 1889, The Lion's Mouth, played over five hundred times by Frederick Warde. Ye Earlie Trouble. The Princess Erie, and Tlte Gilded Fool met with pronounced success. In 1892 he wrote A Bit of Scandal, and in 1893 The Butterflies. In 1894 Lem Kettle was brought out in New York, and Ambition, a political comedy, was written.

CARLETON, James Henry, soldier, was born in Maine in 1814. He took part in the " Aroostook war," which arose from a dispute in regard to the northeastern boundary of the United States, and in 1839 received a commission as 2d lieutenant of the 1st U. S. dragoons. March 17, 1845, he was promoted 1st lieutenant and assigned to commis- sary duty in Kearny's expedition to the Rocky mountains in 1846. He served in the Mexican war, was promoted to a captaincy in 1847, and obtained the brevet rank of major for his ser- vices at Buena Vista. He was employed in ex- ploring, and in keeping the Indians in check, and in 1861 was advanced to the rank of major and ordered to California in command of the 6th cavalry. In 1862 he raised and organized the " California Column," and conducted it to Mesilla on the Rio Grande. He was made commander of the department of New Mexico with the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. In March, 1865, he was promoted brigadier-general of the regular army, passing the intermediary ranks by brevet, for his services in New Mexico; and for his gallantry during the civil war was brevetted major-general, U. S. A. He was promoted lieu- tenant-colonel 4th cavalry, July 31, 1866; colonel of 2d cavalry, June 1870. and ordered to Texas. He published The Battle of Buena Vista (1848). He died in San Antonio, Texas. Jan. 7, 1873.