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schook of Xewton and was graduateii A.B. from Harvard in 1SS4 and A.M. from Norwich uni- versity in 1S8T. On Aug. 1. 1S84. he entere«i the service of the U.S. weather bureau : was assistant observer at Chicago and Boston stations, 1SS5-S6: established a station in 1S87 at Norwich univer- sity, Northfield. Vt.. and was in charge of the New Haven. Conn., station, lSSS-94. In October, 1S94. he was promoted local forecast oflScial and sent to Chicago. He was promoted national fore- cast official in August. 1S95. and professor of meteorology in March, 1S99. having charge of the Western forecast district of fourteen states and also of the Upper L^kes. He was married Sept. 8, 1S?7, to Mary Cavanagh of Somerville. ^lass. He was elected a member of the Chicago academy of sciences, April 1. 1S99. His published writ- ings consist of scientific contributions to periodi- cals and include : TTiundt^rstorm awJ Wtit-rrifj-jut in the American JItteoroh:»ffical Journal. December, 1SS9; and Storm Si-jnals on the Great Lakes in Bul- letin No. 24 of the U.S. "Weather Bureau. Jan- uary. 1*99.

COXt Jacob Dolson, >:atesman. was born in Montreal, Cana^ia, Oct. 27. is-^:?; son of Jacob Dolson and Thedia Redelia ^Kenyon) Cox. His parents were natives of the United States and residents of New York, and he received his primary education in that city. On his father's side he was descended from Michael Cox (or KochJ a Hanoverian, who emigrated to New York in 1702. On his mother's side he was descended from Payne Kenyon. a Revolutionary sol- dier of Connecticut, who was at Bur- goyne's surrender ; from Freeman Allyn, Another Revolution- ary soldier of Con- 'necticut, who fought at Groton against Bene«Jict Arnold, and from Elder William Brewster of the -Vay- jloirer. The AUyns were of the earliest colonists of Salem and Manchester, Mass. He removed to Ohio in 1S46, was graduated from Oberlin college in ISol, was admitted to the bar in 1S.>3, and practised his profession at War- ren, Ohio. In iJ^iO he was elected to the state senate as a Republican. As brigadier-gen- eral of the state militia he was active at the outbreak of the civil war in aiding General HcClellan in organizing and forwarding state

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troops and was appointed by Governor Dennison brigadier-general of Ohio troops in the service of the Uniteil States. On May 17. 1S61. President Lincoln commissioned him brigadier-general of the U.S. volunteers and he commanded an inde- pendent column under McCIellan in the West- Virginia campaign, from July to September, 1S61, and under Rosecrans from September to Deceml^r of the same year.. He commanded the district of the Kanawha until August. 1S62, when he was ordered to Washington. He led the advance of the right wing of McClellan's army at South Mountain and opened the battle. Septem- ber 14. and when General Reno fell, he succeeded to the command of the 9th army corps, directing its movements in the battle of Antietam. Sept. 17. 1S62. On Oct. 6. 1S62, he was promoteil major-general of volunteers and ordered to West Virginia, where he drove back the Confederates and commanded the district till April. 1S6.3. He was then ordered to report to General Bumside, department of the Ohio, and commanded the district of Ohio and Michigan until November, when he was given temporary command of the 23d army corps in East Tennessee. Later he commanded the 3d division of the corps and joined Sherman in his Georgia campaign, leading his division in all the battles from May to Sepn tember. resuming command of the corps during the absence of General Schofield. conducting it in tKe campaign against Hood in October, partici- pating in the battle of Franklin. Nov. 30, lSft4. and again resuming command of the 3d division in the battle of Nashville, on Dec. 16. IS&L For services at the battle of Franklin he was restored to the rank of major-general, from which he had been re<luce«.l in April, 1S63. by reason of the num* ber of appointments being in excess of the law, and was given permanent command of the 23d corps. He was transferred with his corps in February, 1S65, to North Carolina as part of Scho- field's army, capturing Fort Anderson, the cities of Wilmington and Kingston, joining Sherman's army at Goldsboro and commanding the district of western North Carolina at Greensboro after the surrender of General Johnston. He resigned from the service Jan. 1, 1S66. and retumeil to Ohio, where he was elected governor of the state, serving 1S66-67. He was secretary of the interior in President Grant s cabinet. lS€9-70. and a rep- resentative from Toledo in the 4oth congress, 1S77-79. In ISSI he was elected dean and pro- fessor of constitutional law and civil proce<lure in the Cinciniici law school. In addition to his duties as dean of the law school he was president of the L niversity of Cincinnati. 1SS4-S9. In 1S97 he retired from the deanship of the law school and from active professional life. He was mar- ried to Helen, daughter of the Rev. Charles