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Andover theological seminary, 1837-45. He oc- cupied the chair of history and national educa- tion in Dartmouth, 1841-44, and was president and professor of Christian theology in the Gil- manton theological seminary, 1844—50. He re- ceived the degree of A.M. from Brown in 1844 and from Harvard in 1816, and that of D.D. from Williams in 1833. He edited the New England Historical and Genealogical liegister, the JVeio Sampsliire Bepository, and the American Quarterly Begister. He i^ublished sermons, and Manual of Theology and Devotion ; Assistant to Family Beligion ; Christian Philanthropist; Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millenium; Letters to Young 2Ien ; and various Bepnrts. He died at Gilmanton, N.H., April 18, 1850.

COGSWELL, William, representative, was born in Bradford, Mass., Aug. 23, 1838; son of Geoi'ge and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell. He was fitted for college at Kimball Union and Phillips (Andover) academies, and entered Dartmouth college in 1855, but did not complete the course,

preferring, after the example of an older brother, to get a glimpse of the world as a sailor. Return- ing from sea, he was graduated at Har- vard law school and admitted to the bar in 1860. On the breaking out of the civil war he raised the first company of volunteers that went to the front from Massachusetts. He served throughout the conflict, rising from a captaincy to the rank of brevet brigadier- general. He took part in many of the battles of the Army of the Potomac and under Generals Thomas and Sherman in the west, commanded the city of Atlanta in 1864, and participated m the famous march to the sea. At the close of the war he returned to the practice of his profession and in 1870 was chosen as commander of theG.A.R. department of Massachusetts. He was also a member of the Loyal Legion. He was mayor of the city of Salem during the years 1867, 1868, 1869, 1873 and 1874 He served in the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1870, 1871, 1881 and 1883. He was a member of the state senate, 1885-86 ; and was a representative in the 50th and four suc- ceeding congresses, 1887-95. In the 50th congress Jie was a member of tlie committee on rivers and harbors; in the 51st of the committee on appro- priations, and in the 52d and 53d of the same

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committee, together with that of District of Columbia, and in the 52d on the Columbian expo- sition. He received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1878. He died in Washington, D.C., May 22, 1895.

COHN, Adolphe, educator, was born in Paris, France, May 29, 1851 ; son of Albert and Mathilde (Lowengard) Cohn; grandson of Sampson and Dina (Trebich) Cohn and of Rudolph and Rosa- lia (Hendle) Lowengard; and a descendant of the Cohn family of Alsace. He was prepared for the university at the Lycee Bonaparte, Paris, and was graduated from the University of Paris, A.B., 1858, and LL.B., 1874. After serving in the French army from August, 1870, to February, 1871, he returned to his studies. He attended the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris, graduating as Archiviste Paleographe, 1874; and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, section des sci- ences Historiques et Philologiques. He removed to the United States in May, 1875, and became a private tutor. He was tutor in French at Colum- bia college in 1882 and was advanced to the posi- tion of instructor in the same year. In 1884 he becaine instructor in French at Harvard and was made assistant professor in 1885. He resigned in 1891 to accept the chair of romance languages and literatures in Columbia university. He was married April 6, 1887, to Marion Loys Wright. He was elected a member of the Colonial club, Cambridge, in 1889, and of the Reform club. New York, in 1891. Besides contributions to La Be- 2nihlique Francaise, Le Temps, Le Messager Franco- Americain, the Atlantic Monthly, the Bookman, the Outlook and other leading periodicals, he published Voltaire's Prose (1898) ; Extracts from Gil Bias (1«99).

COIT, Henry Augustus, educator, was born in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 20, 1830; son of the Rev. Joseph Howland and Harriet Jane (Hard) Coit; grandson of Levi and Lydia (Howland), great- grandson of William and Sarah (Lathrop), great^ grandson of Col. Samuel and Sarah (Spalding), great^ grandson of the Rev. Joseph and Experi- ence (Wheeler), great* grandson of Deacon Joseph and Martha (Harris), and great^ grand- son of John and Mary (Jenners) Coit, who came from Wales about 1634 and settled in Gloucester, Mass. He entered the University of Pennsylva- nia in 1847, completed his freshman year, and then spent a winter in the south for his health. Returning north, he accepted the position of assistant profe.ssor of the ancient languages at the College of St. James, Md., where he remained until 1851, and then assumed charge of a parish school in Lancaster, Pa., under the direction of Bishop Bowman. While at Lancaster lie was ordained deacon, and his ordination to the priest- hood followed one year later in Plattsburg, N. Y.,