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Cage, Harry – Caldwell, Andrew J
Cage, Harry
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1833 to 1835.
Cahan, Abraham
journalist, author, was born in 1860 in Russia. He is a New York city journalist, and editor of Zukunft. He is the author of Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto; and Raphael Narizokh (Yiddish).
Cahill, Juan F
diplomat, journalist, poet. His writings are better known throughout Spanish-America than at home; particularly through his editorials which have appeared in El Commercio del Valle, published in St. Louis, Mo., and of which he has been editor and proprietor for the past fifteen years.
Cahill, Le Roy
manufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Portage, Mich. He converted a common plow into a riding plow. He is the owner of a large manufacturing house in Kalamazoo, president of the electric light company, and director of a number of prosperous corporations.
Cahoon, William
jurist, statesman.
He was a presidential elector in 1809; from 1815 to 1820 he was a state councilor; county judge for nine years, and lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1820 and 1821. For seven years he was a member of the state legislature, and a representative in congress from Vermont from 1829 to 1833.
Cain, Richard H
clergyman, congressman, was born April 12, 1825, in Greenbrier county, Va. He entered the ministry at an early age and was sent as a missionary to the freedmen in South Carolina. He was chosen a member of the constitutional convention of South Carolina; was elected a member of the state senate and served two years; edited a newspaper from 1868; and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Cain, William
civil engineer, author, was born in 1847 in North Carolina. He is a professor of civil engineering in the university of North Carolina, and the author of Theory of Voussoir; Solid and Braced Arches: Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges; Solid and Braced Elastic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; and Practical Designing of Retaining Walls.
Caines, George
author, was born in 1771. He was a reporter of the New York supreme court, and the author of Lex Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors; Forms of New York Supreme Court; Summary of Practice in New York Supreme Court; Cases in the Court for Trial of Impeachments; and New York Supreme Court Reports. He died July 10, 1825, in Catskill, N. Y.
Cairns, Charles S
lawyer, state legislator, was born July 4, 1856, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He attended Muskingum college and law department of the Michigan university. He was a member of the Minnesota legislature, and for years has taken an active part in the public affairs of the state of Minnesota, and with a view to improving the state and city governments.
Cake, Henry L
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1827, in Northumberland, Pa. He was elected brigadiergeneral of militia in 1854; on April 18, 1861, arrived in Washington in command of the first five hundred soldiers enlisted to put down the rebellion, and was quartered in the capitol twenty-four hours before any other volunteers had arrived.
Mr. Cake was twice a candidate for the state senate, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.
Caldwell, Alexander
jurist. He was for several years United States district judge for the western district of Virginia. He died April 8, 1839, in Wheeling, W. Va.
Caldwell, Andrew J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born at Montevallo, Ala. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. In 1870 he was elected attorney-general for the criminal district of Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., and served eight years. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.