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office until 1872. He was director, and afterwards vice-president, of the Providence athenaeum; president of the National exchange bank. Provi- dence; of the board of trustees of the Newton theological institution; of the Baptist missionary union; of the Rhode Island hospital; one of the founders, and afterwards vice-president, of the American association for advancement of science; associate fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences; trustee and fellow of Brown univer- sity and one of the corporators of the national academy of sciences. Brown university con- ferred upon him the degrees of D.D. in 1^1, and LL.D. in 1865. He is the author of Lectures on Astronomy (1858); Meteorological Observations 1831- GO (1860); Memoir of John Barstow (1864); Memoir of Prof. Benjamin Silliman (1866); Life and Christian Work of Francis Wayland (1867), and Results of Meteorological Observations at Providence. lS31-'76 (188-3). He died in Provi- dence, R. I., Jan. 8. 1877.

CASWELL, Lucien B., representative, was born in Swanton, Vt., Nov. 27, 1827; son of Beal and Betsey (Chapman) Caswell. He attended Beloit college; studied law under Matthew H. Carpenter, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He engaged in practice at Fort Atkinson, Wis.; was district attorney of Jefferson county, 1855- '56; a member of the state legislature in 1863, 1872, and 1874, and of the Republican national convention in 1868. He was a representative in congress. 1875-'83, and 1885-'91; became president of the Citizen's state bank in 1885, and vice-pres- ident of the First national bank in 1888.

CASWELL, Richard, delegate, was born in Maryland, Aug. 3, 1729. He removed to North Carolina, practised law and was a member of the colonial assembly. 1756-70. He was a delegate to the Contmental congress. 1774-'75; president of the provincial congress in 1775: governor of North Carolina, 1775-79, and 1784-"87; president of the state senate, 1782-'84, and 1789; comptrol- ler-general of the state, 1782-'84, and a delegate to the Federal constitutional convention in 1787, and to the state convention in 1789. He was major- general of the Newbern district in the Revolution. He died at Fayetteville, N.C., Nov. 20, 1789.

CATCH INQS, Thomas Clendinen, representa- tive, was born in Hinds county. Miss., Jan. 11, 1847. He entered the university of Mississippi in 1859, leaving in 1861 to enter Oakland college, but soon after volunteered in the Confederate army, serving during the entire civil war, after which he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1866, and practised his profession at Vicksburg, Miss. He was elected to the state senate in 1875 and re- signed in 1877 on being nominated for attorney- general by the state; he was elected for a term of four years, and was re-elected in 1881, resigning

Feb. 16, 1885, having been elected a representa- tive to the 49th Congress. He was re elected to each succeeding Congress up to and inclusive of the 56th.

CATHCART, Charles W., senator, was born in the island of Madeira in 1809. He received an English education, and for some years was a sailor. He settled as a farmer in Laporte, Ind., in 1831, where he was land surveyor for the United States; he was also a member of the state assembly. In 1844 he was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket. In 1844 he was elected as a representative to the 29tli Congress; he was re-elected to the 30th Congress, and served until March 8, 1849. On Dec. 6. 1852 he took his seat in the United States senate, having been appointed by Governor Wright to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator James Whitcomb, the state legislature electing at its next session John Pet- tee to succeed him for the unexpired term ending March 3, 1855. He died in Michigan city, Ind., Aug. 22, 1888.

CATHCART, William, clergyman, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, Nov. 8, 1826; son of James and Elizabeth (Cously) Cathcart. He was brought up in the Presbyterian faith, but in 1846 entered the Baptist communion. He obtained his literary and theological education at the uni- versity of Glasgow, Scotland, and at Rawdon col- lege, Yorkshire. England. He was ordained to the ministry in 1850. and assumed pastoral charge of the Baptist church at Barnsley, near Sheffield, England. In 1853 he removed to the United States, and became pastor of the Third Baptist church of Groton, at Mystic river, Conn., and in April, 1857, of the Second Baptist church of Phila- delphia, Pa. In 1876 he was elected president of the American Baptist historical society, and was re-elected annually. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him in 1873 by the university at Lewisburg, He published: The Baptists and the American Revolution. The Papal System, The Baptism of the Ages and of Nations, and TJte Baptist E)i cyclopaedia.

CATHERWOOD, Mary Hartwell, author, was born at Luray, Licking county, Ohio. Dec. 16, 1847, daughter of Dr. Marcus and Phoebe (Thompson) Hartwell. She was graduated from the Granville (Oliio) female college in 1868. She was married Dec. 27, 1887, to James S. Cath- erwood, of Hoopeston, near Chicago, 111. In January, 1891, she became editorially connected with The Graphic, a weekly Cliicago paper. Among her published books are: The Dogberry Bunch (1881); Rocky Fork (1882); Old Cara- van Days (1884); The Secret at Roseladies (1888); The Romance of Dollard (1889); The Bells of St. Anne (1889); The Story of Tonty (1890); The Lady of Fort St. John (1891); Old Kas-