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 COOLEY

COOLIDGE

of Ebenezer and Margaret (Barnes), and great* grandson of Benjamin and Margaret Cooley who came from Wales to Massachusetts in 1720-1730. He was graduated at the New York state normal college in I800 and at Union college in 1858. He was professor of natural science in the New York state normal college, 1861-1874, became professor of physics and chemistry in Vassar college in 1874, and when the department was divided in 1895 he took the chair of physics. In 1880 he was elected a, fellow of the American association for the ad- vancement of science. He was an active mem- ber of the New York state science teachers' association from its inception, was made chair- man of its committee of nine to investigate the condition and devise methods for the improve- ment of science teaching in the schools, and was president of the association in 1899. He received from Union college the degree of Ph.D. in 1870. He is the author of A Text-Book of Physics (1868); A Text-Book of Chemistry (1869); Easy Experiments in Physical Science (1870); Xatural Philosophy for High Schools (1871); Elements of Chemistry for High Schools (1873); The New Text-Book of Physics <1880); The Xew Text-Book of Chemistry (1881); The Beginner s Guide to Chemistry (1886); Laboratory Studies in Chemistry (1894); The Student's JIanual of Physics (1897).

COOLEY, Thomas Mclntyre, jurist, was born in Attica, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1824; son of Thomas and Rachel (Hubbard) Cooley and a direct descendant of Benjamin Cooley, who settled near Spring- field, Mass., before 1640. He studied law in New York state, removed to Michigan in 1843 and was admitted to the bar at Adrian, Mich., in 1846. In

1846 he married Mary /'^'"^^t*^ Elizabeth, daughter

of David Horton of Adrian, Mich. He practised at Tecimi- seh, 1847^8, and then returned to Adrian wliere he edited The Wdtrh-toirrr, practised law, and in 1857 com- piled the general stat- utes of Michigan, published in two vol- umes. He was re- porter of the supreme court, 1858-65, and in that time published eight volumes of reports, be- sides being Jay jm^fessor of law in the University of Micliigan, 1859-84, and lecturer on constitu- tional law and medical jurisprudence, 1861-65. He was elected justice of the supreme court of the state in 1864 to fill a vacancy, and in 1869 was elected to the same office for a full judicial term of eight years. He served as

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chief justice in 1868-69, and was re-elected to the bench in 1877. He became professor of constitutional and administrative law in the school of political science in connection with the University of Michigan upon its establish- ment in 1881. He was elected to the chair of American history and constitutional law in the university and dean of the school of political science in 1885. He was made receiver of the Chicago division of the Wabash railroad systems by Judge Gresham in December, 1886, and by Judge Walker, receiver of the lines within Ohio, a few days afterward. Upon the institution of the interstate commerce commission, March 27, 1887, President Cleveland appointed Judge Cooley a member and upon its organization, March 31, he was unanimously chosen chairman of the com- mission. He resigned on account of ill health, Sept. 4, 1891, and was elected president of the American bar association in 1893. He was mar- ried in 1846 to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of David Horton of Adrian, Mich., and was survived by six children: Eugene Cooley, merchant and manu- facturer, of Lansing; Edgar Cooley, lawyer, of Bay City; Mrs. Fanny Cooley Angell; Prof. Charles Cooley of the department of political economy and sociology of the University of Michigan; Dr. Thomas Cooley, medical depart- ment, University of Michigan, and Mary Cooley. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan in 1873, and from Harvard in 1886. He published: Digest of Michi- gan Beports (1866); TJie Constitutional Limitations rchich Best upon the Legislative Poicer of the States of the American Union (1868-71); editions with notes of Black.stone's Commentaries (1870), and Story's Commentaries on the Constituiion of the United States, \inth Original Chapters on the New Amendments (1873); The Law of Taxation (1876); The Law of Torts (1879); General Principles of Constitutional Laic in the United States (1880); and Michigan: a History of Governments (1885); and, with others. Lectures on Constitutional History of the United States, as seen in the Development of American Law (1889). In 1894 he reviewed The Laxryer as a Teacher and Leader, and Lessons of Becent Strikes. He died at Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 12, 1898.

COOLIDGE, Carlos, governor of Vermont, was born in Windsor. Vt., June 25, 1792; son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Curtis) Coolidge. He studied at Dartmouth, 1807-08, and was gradu- ated at Middlebury in 1811. He was admitted to the bar in 1814 and practised in Windsor. In 1831 he was elected state's attorney for Windsor county and %vas continued in office six terms. He was elected to the lower house of the legisla- ture, 1834, 1835 and 1836, being speaker in 1836, and again served 1839, 1840 and 1841, and was speaker during all three terms. He was presi-