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Tennessee Wesleyan university, where he was graduated with lienors in 1880. On leaving college he was appointed pastor at Atlanta, Ga., and was later transferred to Knoxville, Tenn. In I880 he visited Europe, spending a year in attending lectures in the Universitj- of Berlin. On his return to the United States, after a so- journ in England, he was called to tlie chair of New Testament exegesis and historical theology in the U.S. Grant university. He was elected vice chancellor of the university in 1893 and acting president in 1897. In 1893 he was elected editor of the Methodist Advocate Jonrnal, holding both the editorship and his chair in the univer- sity. In 1881 he was married to Eliza Gettys Fisher, and had four sons, Richard, James F., William Rule and Francis Joyce. In 1893 he ■was elected by the Holston conference to the General conference, which met the j^ear follow- ing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1896 he was appointed by the board of bishops to serve on the com- mission on federation, and was secretary for the commissioners of the M.E. church. In 1885 the University of Tennessee conferred upon him the honorary degree of S.T.D. In addition to contributions to various reviews he is the author of Tlte Doctrine of the ^Resurrection, Historical and Scientijic (1884); Reason for Church Creed; a Con- tribution to Present Day Controversies (1886) ; Christianity and Childhood (1888) ; The Historic Episcopate (1894) ; and under the pen-name Gerome. he wrote Christ and the Critics (1897).

COOKE, Rose Terry, author, was born at West Hartford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1827; daughter of Henry Wadsworth and Anne Wright (Hurlbut) Terry. She was educated in the public schools of Hartford and by careful home training, and in 1843 became a school teacher. She was mar- ried in 1872 to Rollin H. Cooke, a manufacturer, of Winsted, Conn. Her published writings in- clude: Poems (1861); Happy Dodd (1878); Some- body's Neighbors (1881) ; The Deacon's Week (1884) ; Root-Bound and Other Sketches (1885) ; Xo : a Story for Botjs (1886) ; The Sphitix's Children and Other People's (1886) ; The Old Garden (1888) ; Steadfast (1889); and Huckleberries Gathered fro7n Xeio Eng- land Hills (1891). She died in Pittsfield, Mass., July 18. 1892.

COOKE, Stephen, physician, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., in 1751; son of Nathan Cooke, a Philadelphia ship owner. He was graduated from the Philadelphia college of medicine and engaged in the Continental service in the Revolutionary war. He was taken prisoner by the British and detained at St. George, Bermuda, until peace was declared. He was married to Catherine, daughter of John Esten, chief justice of the colony. In 1783 he visited the United States with his wife, returning during the same year.

He practised medicine in the Bermudas, and on Turk's island, where he located in 1784. In 1789 he removed to the United States taking up his residence in Alexandria, Va., and after^vardnea^ Leesburg. Va., where he died in March, 1816.

COOKE, William Henry, clergyman, was born in Bloomfield, N.J., Oct. 31, 1837; son of Robert L. and Eliza (Van Deventer) Cooke. He was graduated from the University of the city of New York in 1858 and from the General theological seminary in 1863. He was ordained a deacon in 1863, and served as assistant to the Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe at Calvary church, New York city. He was made a priest in 1864. and was rec- tor of Trinity church, Lansingburg, N.Y., 1864-67. He became an assistant minister of Trinity church, New York city, in 1867, having charge of St. Jolm's chapel, Varick street, as curate. He was president of the Church music association and of the Oratorio society, 1874-89, and composed a mass service and a burial service. He also published a book of hymns and many contribu- tions to current literature concerning musical matters. He died in New York city, Feb. 22, 1889.

COOLBRITH, Ina Donna, librarian, was born in Illinois, of New England parentage. She re- moved with her parents to California in early childhood, and was educated in the public school of Los Angeles. She wrote for the Overland Monthly, Californian, Century, Scribner's, and other leading periodicals. She was librarian of the Oakland public library from 1874 to 1893 and in 1893 became librarian of the Mercantile library of San Francisco, Cal. She is the author of Perfect Day and Other Poems, and Songs from the Golden Gate (1895).

COOLEY, Charles Horton, educator, was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 17, 1864; son of Thomas Mclntyre (1824-1898) and Mary Elizabeth (Horton) Cooley. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of Michigan, A.B., 1887, Ph.D., 1894. After serving six months as a mechanical draughtsman, he was chief of division in the United States census bureau, 1889-91, and pre- pared statistics on street railways. He was as- sistant instructor and instructor in sociology in the University of Michigan from 1892, and a mem- ber of the council of the American economic association from 1894. He was .married, July 24, 1890, to Elsie, daughter of Samuel A. Jones of Ann Arbor. He is the author of a monograph on Transportation, published by the American eco- nomic association in 1894, and various papers and essays on sociological and economic subjects.

COOLEY, Le Roy Clark, educator, was born at Point Peninsula, N.Y., Oct, 7, 1833; son of James and Sally (Clark) Cooley; grandson of Barnes and Betsy (Shattuck), great-grandson