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COZZENS

the City of New York in \f<Sii ami at the General theological seminary in 1848. In the latter year he was onlaineil a priest in the Protestant Epis- copal church anil wa^ rector in Saratoga. Auburn, Oxford, Cazenovia, Utica and Kinderhook, N.Y.. 1843-88. He was married April 10, 1845, to Eliza, daughter of the Hon. Alfred and Eliza (Cock- burn ) Cunkling. In 18.V2 Trinity college conferreil upon him the degree of A.M. and in 1864 he re- ceived tliat of S.T.D. from Columbia college. Dr. Coxe's rhetorical gifts were far above the average. He was a popular lecturer, a valued contributor of both prose and vei-se to the press, and during the civil war he labored with both l>en and voice in the cause of the Union. He died at Utica. N.Y.. Jan. 16, 189o.

COXE, Tench, publicist, was born in Phila- delphia. Pa.. May 22, IT-'m: son of William and Mary (FVancis) Coxe. His father was a suc- cessful merchant and his mother was a daughter of Tench Francis, attorney -general of Pennsj'l- vania. His grandfather. Col. Daniel Coxe. came to America in 1709, married Sarah, daughter of John Eckley, judge of the su- preme court of Pennsylvania, and inherited the vast proprietorship of land granted to his father. Dr. Daniel Coxe, by Charles II., Ui whose queen and to Queen Anne he was physician.

This land included the greater por- tion of West Jer- sey, 100,000 acres in New York, the entire province of Carolana, and large tracts in Pennsylvania and in nearly all the other American provinces. Tench was educated in the Philadelphia schools; became a clerk in his father's counting house, and in 1776 was admitted to the firm as a partner. He was a member of the state militia and resigned at the outbreak of the Revolution to join the British army under Howe. When Howe evacu- ated PhiLidelphia Coxe was arrested and paroled. Espousing the Whig cause he became prominent in politics and was a member of the Annapolis convention of 17^6. He then became a Federalist and in 17*^9 wasapf»ointed by Alexander Hamilton assistant secretary of the treasury, and in 1792, commissioner of revenue. He was removed by President Adams in 1797. This drove him into the Republican party and he published in the canvass of 1800 Adams's letter to him regarding

Pinckney. In 1803 he was appointed by President Jefferson i>urveyor c»f pul'lic supplies and held the office nine yeare. He was an early advocate of American manufactures and took great interest in commerce and navigation, the encouragement of arts and the manufacture of cotton. He was the first to attempt to bring an Arkwright spin- ning frame to the United States and to urge the people of the .south to cultivate cotton. His theory was to unite the resources of agriculture, commerce and manufactures so that no depart- ment of labor should be lost, and that all the skill and mechanism, all the improvements in ma- chinery and science should be brought into full operation. He publislied: An Inquiry into the Prineiples of a Commercial System for the United States (1787) ; Examination of Lord Sheffield's Ob- servations on the Commerce of the United Provinces (1792); Vieic of the United States (1787-94); and On the Xavifjation Act (1809). He died in Phila- delphia. Pa., July 17. 1824.

COYLE, John Patterson, clergyman, was born at East WaterforJ, Pa., ilaj- 3, 1852; son of David Scott and Mary Matilda (Longwell) Coyle. He attended the Millersville normal school and the academy at Port Royal, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1875. He was a tutor in Latin and Greek. 1875-78, and attended Princeton theological seminary and McCormick seminaiy, Chicago, 111. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry at Ludlow, Mass., May 3, 1882, and preached at Morrisania, N. Y. city, 1884- 86; at North Adams, Mass., 1886-94; and in January. 1895. Avas installed at Denver, Col. He was married in 1884 to ^lary Allerton, daughter of the Rev. Chester L. and Laura (Montague) Cushman of Belchertown, Mass. Williams col- lege conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1893. He is the author of A Christian Catechism on the Historical Plan (iSSQ) ; The Si>irit in' Litcratnre and Life (1896); and The Imperial Christ. He died in Denver. Col.. Feb. 21, 1895.

COZZENS, Frederick Swartwout, author, was born in New York city, March 5, 1818. He was educated in the city, became a clerk and then proprietor of a grocery and wine store, and introduced the u.se of native wines in New York as the agent for Nicholas Longworth's Ohio vine- yards. He published Cozzens' Wine, Press, "a vinous, vivacious monthly, " a trade journal, from June 20. 1855. to March 20. lf>(Jl. P^ailing in busi- ness in 18G>< lie removed to Rahway, N.J., and was on a visit to Brooklyn at the time of his death. His earlier ix)ems were printed in Yankee Doodle in 1847. He published a series of his contri- butions to the Knickerbocker Magazine as Pris- matics (1852), and another as The Sparrotnirass Papers (1856) ; Acadia; or A Month xrith lilue-Xoses (1859) ; and the same year in the A'ew York Ledger,