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of the world. His mineral analyses with descrip- tions of new species were published in the Amer- ican Journal of Sciences and in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was president of the American academy of arts and sciences; was elected in 1872 a member of the National academy of sciences and had the rare honor of being elected an honorary fellow of London chemical society. He was given the degree of LL.D. by Cambridge university, Eng- land, in 1882, and by Harvard in 1889. His sci- entific publications include: Chemical Problems and Beactions (1857); Elements of Chemical Physics (1860); FirsC Principles of Chemical Philosophy (1868-82); The Xexc Chemistry (1872, newed. 1884); and Fundamental Principles of Chemistry (1886). He also published Religion and Chemistry (ISGAy; Scientific Culture and Other Essays (1881-85); and TTie Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith (1888). He died in Newport, R.I., Sept. 3, 1894.

COOKE, Nicholas, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Providence, R.I., Feb. 3, 1717; son of Daniel and Mary (Power) Cooke. In early life he was a successful shipmaster and subse- quently engaged in the rope-making and dis- tilling businesses, in which he accumulated a fortvme which he invested in land in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In May, 1768, he was elected deputy-governor and was again elected in 1775. Upon the deposition of Gov. Joseph Wanton on Oct. 31, 1775, he was chosen chief magistrate and served until May, 1778, declining a re-election. At the close of his term he received the official thanks of the general assembly for his services. He proposed to con- gress the encouraging of the manufacture of saltpetre, and the general assembly of Rhode Island offered a bountj- of three shillings per pound for all manufactured in the colony and delivered to the government, to supply the want of gunpowder in the American army. He was a trustee of Brown university, 1766-82. He was married, Sept. 23, 1740, to Hannah, daughter of Hezekiah Sabin, and they had twelve children. He died in Providence, R.I., Nov. 14, 1783.

COOKE, Nicholas Francis, physician, was born in Providence, R.I., Aug. 25, 1829; son of Joseph Sabin and Marj- (Welch), grandson of Jesse, and great-grandson of Gov. Nicholas and Hannah (Sabin) Cooke. He attended Brown university, 1846-49, and spent the j^ears 1849-52 in travel. He took partial courses in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and at Jeffer- son medical college, and in 1854 was graduated from the Homoeopathic medical college of Penn- sylvania. He was the first homoeoijathic physi- cian graduated in the United States and practised first in Providence and after 1855 in Chicago, 111. He was married, Oct. 15. 1856, to Laura Wheaton,

daughter of Commodore Joel Abbot, U.S.N. Iq 1859 lie accepted the chair of cliemistry at the Halmemann medical college of Chicago, which he later clianged for that of the theory and prac- tice of medicine. In 1870 he resigned his chair and returned to general practice, which was interrupted only by a single year's professoi'ship of special pathologj' and diagnosis in the Pulte medical college, Cincinnati. 1872. He published: Satan in Society (1871); and Antiseptic Medication (1882). He died in Chicago, 111., Feb. 1, 1885.

COOKE, Parsons, clergyman, was born in Hadley". Mass., Feb. 18, 1800. He was graduated at Williams college in 1822 and studied theology there under President Griffin, 1822-26. He was ordained June 38, 1826, pastor of a new church at Ware, Mass., where he remained until early in 1836, when he removed to Portsmouth, N.H. He returned to Massachusetts in the fall and was pastor of the Congregational church at Lynn, 1836-64. He edited the Xerc England Puritan, afterward united with the Pecorder, until his death. He was married to Hannah Starkweather of Williamstown, Mass. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from Lafayette in 1848, and from Williams in 1849. His published works include: The Divine Lair' of Beneficence; Modern Universalism Exposed (1834);T7ie Marriage Question (1842); A History of German Anabaptism (1846); A Century of Ptiritanism and a Century of the Oppo- sites (1855); Recollections of the Rev. E. D. Griffin (1855); and Second Part of Cooke's Centuries^ (1855). He died in Lynn, Mass., Feb. 12, 1864.

COOKE, Philip Pendleton, author, wa i born at Martinsburg. Va., Oct. 26, 1816; son or John Rogers and Maria (Pendleton) Cooke. He at- tended the Martinsburg academy and was gradu- ated at the College of New Jersej' in 1834. He studied law with his father, " dividing his time between Black- stone, poetry, and the chase."' He wrote for the Knickerbocker Mag- azine, the Southern Literary Messenger, and the Winchester Virginian, contrib- uting essays and poems of unusual merit. He was admitted to the bar in 1836 and was married the next j'ear to Anne Cor- bin Taylor, daughter of Judge Nelson BurwelL In 1845 he removed to '* The Vineyard," an estate of one thousand acres near Ashby's Gap, Va., where he was known as the ' ' Nimrod of the

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