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Cadillac, Antoine De La M

founder of Detroit, was born about 1660, in France. He was the founder of Detroit in 1704; laid out lots and streets, and built the first chapel. He died about 1720 in France.

Cadmus, Cornelius A

congressman, was born Oct. 1844, in Bergen county, N. J. He was elected a member of the house of general assembly from Passaic county in 1883; was elected sheriff of Passaic county in 1887 for three years, and was elected to the fifty-second and reelected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Cadwalader, George

soldier, author. In 1862 he was appointed majorgeneral of volunteers. He was one of the commission to revise the military laws and regulations. In 1862 His Services in the Mexican Campaign of 1847 was published in Philadelphia.

Cadwalader, John

general, was born in 1742 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania convention in 1775, and an active member of the committee of safety. In the autumn of 1777, at the request of Washington, he assisted in organizing the militia of the eastern shore of Maryland. He died Feb. 10, 1786, in Shrewsbury, Pa.

Cadwalader, John

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 1, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1854 he was elected a representative in the thirty-fourth congress; declined a renomination and returned to the practice of his profession. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Cadwalader, Lambert

soldier, congressman, was born in Trenton, N. J.

He commanded a regiment early in the revolution, and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1784 to 1787. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1791, and again from 1793 to 1795. He died Sept. 12, 1823, in Trenton, N. J.

Cadwallader, Emma N

educator, poet. She is a writer of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and has contributed a number of meritorious poems to the periodical press.

Cady, Daniel

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 29, 1773, in Chatham, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 το 1817; previously served five years in the state legislature, and in 1846 was elected a judge of the supreme court of New York, which position he resigned in 1856.

He died Oct. 31, 1859, in Johnstown, N. Y.

Cady, Ernest

merchant, governor, was born Sept. 6, 1842, in Stafford, Conn.

In 1870 he established the grocery firm of Cummings and Cady, of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1892 he was elected lieutenantgovernor of Connecticut.

Cady, John W

congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1822, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1825.

Cafferty, James H

artist, was born in 1819. His most notable paintings are My Girl; My Father; and Brook- Trout. He died Sept. 9, 1869.

Caffery, Donelson

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 10, 1835, in St. Mary, La. He served in the confederate army, first in the thirteenth Louisiana regiment, and subsequently on the staff of Gen. W. W. Walker. He practiced law and engaged in sugar planting after the war; was a member of the constitutional convention of 1879; and was elected to the state senate in 1892. He was appointed United States senator to fill a vacancy