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CORWIN

tered Brown university, but left in 1861 to join the Union army serving as captain of light artil- lery. At the close of the war he returned to the university where he was graduated in 1867 as A.B. and received in 1869 the degree of M.A. He practised civil engineering in Providence, R.I., and in 1868 was as- sistant engineer on the Hannibal and Naples railroad, Illi- nois. In 1869 he was division engineer of the Hannibal and Central Missouri rail- road; was chief as- sistant engineer on the Mississippi river bridge at Hannibal, Mo., 1870-71; chief engineer on the Sny X^^ /i^^^TT^y^ Island levee, 111., 1871- G.-'^ (P^0jd4(AM^. 74; on the Missis- sippi river bridge, Louisiana, Mo., 1873-74; chief assistant engineer on the Mississippi river jetties, 1875-80; surveyor on the Tehuantepec ship railway, 1880; chief en- gineer on New York and western railroads, 1881- 84, and on the Atlantic and Pacific ship railway, 1885-87. In 1887 he became a consulting and constructing engineer in New York and Chicago, constructing many important bridges and water- works, and acting as consulting engineer on rail- roads in the United States and South America. He was consulting engineer on the Illinois cen- tral and tlie Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail- roads, 1890-93 ; was employed as engineer at the Columbian exposition in 1893 and from 1892 was president and chief engineer of the Southwest Pass improvement company and chief engineer of the Southern bridge and railway company. He was elected a trustee of the University of Chicago, and in 1894 received from Brown university the degree of D.Sc. Among his published writings are: History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Missis- sippi Eiver (1880) ; The Interoceanic Problem and Its Scientific Solution (1885) ; A Venetian Ship liail- tmy (1887) ; New Orleans Belt Hailroad, Union Depot and Bridr/e (1890) ; Resume of Engineering Exprriences (1895).

CORWIN, Edward Tanjore, clergyman, was born in New York city, July 13, 1834 ; son of Ed- ward Caldwell and Mary Ann (Shuart) Corwin ; grandson of James and Mary (Simrall) Corwin ; and a descendant of Mathias Curwen, who emi- grated from England to Ipswich, Mass., about 1630. He was graduated from the College of the city of New York in 1853 and from the Theologi- cal seminary of the Reformed church in Amer- ica, New Brunswick. N.J.. in 1856. He was

pastor at Paramus, N. J., 1857-63, and at Millstone, N.J., 1863-88, and was rector of Herzog Hall, New Brunswick, N.J., 1888-95, when he became pastor at Greendale, N.Y. In 1897-98 he visited Holland to make researches in its ecclesiastical archives, as the official hi.storiograplier of the Reformed church in America, and collected about four thousand pages of material which, after his return to America in 1898, he prepared for the press under the title " Original Documents relat- ing to the early Ecclesiastical History of New- York." He was one of the original members of the American society of church history, which was united with the American historical society in 1896, and was president of the General Sj-nod. of the Reformed church in America, 1891-92. Rutgers college conferred upon him the honorary- degree of D.D. in 1871. Among his published volumes are: Manual of the Reformed Church of Paramus (1858, 2d ed., 1859) ; 3Ia7iual of the Re- formed Chiirch in America (1859, 3d ed., 1879) ; Millstone Centennial (1866) ; Corwin Genealogy (1872) ; History of Reformed Church in America (Dutch), in American Church History Series, Vol. VIII. (1895) ; The Amsterdam Correspondence (1897).

CORWIN, Franklin, representative, was born in Lebanon, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1818; son of Matthias and Minerva (Brown) Corwin ; grandson of Mat- thias and Patience (Halleck) Corwin, and a nephew of the Hon. Thomas Corwin. He attended the public schools, was admitted to the bar in 1839, represented the towns of Faj-ette and Clin- ton in the 45th general assembly of Ohio, 1846— 47, and was a state senator, 1847—19. In 1857 he removed to Peru, 111., and subsequently served in the 24th, 25th and 26th general assemblies of Illinois, acting as speaker during the last two terms. He represented his district as a Repub- lican in the 48d congress, 1873-75.

CORWIN, Moses B., representative, was born in Bourbon county. Ky., Jan. 5, "1790; son of Ichabod and Sarah (Griffin) Corwin ; grandson of Jesse and Kezia (Case) Corwin, and great- grandson of Jesse Corwin. He spent his boyliood on a farm in Oliio, received a good education, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and settled to practice in Urbana, Ohio. He was a member of the state legislature 1838-40, and was a Whig rep- resentative in the 31st and 33d congresses. He died in Urbana. Oliio, April 7, 1872.

CORWIN, Thomas, statesman, was born in Bourbon county, Ky., July 29, 1794; son of Mat- thias and Patience (Halleck) Corwin of Fayette county, Pa. ; grandson of Jesse and Kezia (Case) Corwin of Morris county, N.J. ; great-grandson of Matthias Corwin of Southhold, Long Island; great^ grandson of John Corwin and great^ grand- son of Mathias Curwen, who left England in 1630,