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Cabaniss, Elbridge Gerry

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1802, in Greene county, Ga. He moved to Forsyth, Monroe county, Ga., and was elected judge of the court of ordinary; in 1858 he became judge of the supreme court, and in 1861 was elected to the state legislature. He died in April, 1872, in Atlanta, Ga.

Cabaniss, Henry Harrison

journalist, was born June 21, 1848, in Forsyth, Ga. He graduated from the university of Georgia; was assistant secretary of the Georgia senate for eighteen years, and is now the proprietor of The Journal, a daily newspaper of Atlanta, Ga. con-

Cabell, George C

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1837, in Danville, Va. He entered the confederate service in 1861, and at the end of the war held the rank of colonel. He was nominated for congress by the conservatives in 1874, and elected as a representative to the forty-fourth congress, and was reelected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a democrat.

Cabell, James Lawrence

physician, author, was born Aug. 26, 1813, in Nelson county, Va. He was an eminent Virginia physician, and the author of The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind. He died in 1889.

Cabell, Joseph

soldier, legislator, was born Sept. 19, 1732. For many years he held important civil offices in his native state, occupying a seat in the house of burgesses and serving as a member of the different conventions. During the war for independence he commanded the Buckingham county regiment. He died March 1, 1798, in Sion Hill.

Cabell, Mrs. Julia Mayo

author, poet, was born in 18-, in Virginia. She was the author of An Odd Volume of Facts and Fiction in Prose and Verse; and Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg. She died about 1855.

Cabell, Samuel J

soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1756, in Amherst county, Va. He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the continental army. For many years he was a member of the Virginia assembly and was a representative in congress, from Virginia, from 1795 to 1803. He died Aug. 4, 1818, in Nelson county, Va.

Cabell, William H

governor, was born Dec. 16, 1772, in Boston Hill, Va.

He was governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808; afterward president of the court of appeals, and spent fifty years in public life. He died Jan. 17, 1853, in Richmond, Va.

Cable, Benjamin T

manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1853, in Georgetown, Ky. He has been engaged in ranching and manufacturing; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Cable, Joseph

congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.

Cable, Ransom R

railroad president, was born in 1834, in Athens county, Ohio. About 1859 he entered the coal and railroad business at Rock Island, and rose to be superintendent and finally president of the Peoria and Rock Island railroad. In 1883 he was made president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, which caused him to select Chicago for his home.

Cabot, James Elliot

journalist, author, was born in 1821 in Massachusetts.

He is a Boston writer whose principal work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson.