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Carleton, Henry Guy – Carmack, Samuel W

Carleton, Henry Guy

journalist, author, was born in 1856, in New Mexico.

He is a journalist of New York city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are Memnon; The Pembertons; and Victor Durand.

Carleton, Osgood

mathematician, author, was born in 1742. He was a Massachusetts mathematician; and the author of American Navigator; South American Pilot; and Practice of Arithmetic. He died in June, 1816, in Litchfield, N. H.

Carlile, John Snyder

lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 16, 1817, in Winchester, Va. He was elected to the state senate in 1847; and served until 1851; and in 1850 was a member of the constitutional convention of Virginia. In 1855 he was elected a representative in congress; in 1861 was elected a representative from Virginia to the thirty-seventh congress, and was soon afterward transferred to the senate. He died Oct. 24, 1878, in Clarksburg, W. Va.

Carlin, John

artist, was born June 15, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was deaf and dumb from infancy. Among his recent contributions to the exhibitions of the Artists' Fund society are The Village Gossips; The Admirer of Nature; The Twin Grandchildren; Old and Young; Going after Marshmallows; Solid Comfort; and The Grandfather's Story. Mr. Carlin has also written some poetry.

Carlin, Thomas

governor of Illinois, was born in 1791, in Kentucky. He was a pioneer to Illinois in 1813; served under Gen. Howard in that and the following year during the war of 1812-14; and several times volunteered to perform most perilous undertakings against the Indians. He was governor of the state in 1838-42. He died Feb. 4, 1852.

Carlin, William Passmore

soldier, was born Nov. 24, 1829, in Rich Woods, Ill. He participated in the march to the sea and through the Carolinas; and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general for services at Bentonville, N. C., and major-general for services during the war. From 1867 till 1868 he was assistant commissioner of the freedmen's bureau in Tennessee.

Carll, John Franklin

civil engineer, inventor, was born May 7, 1828, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He devised the static pressure sand-pump, removable pumpchamber, and adjustable sleeve for pistonrods, now used in operating oil-wells. In 1874 he became attached to the geological survey of Pennsylvania, and afterward was assistant in the oil and gas region.

Carlton, Elam B

lawyer, jurist, was born April 3, 1864, in South Florida.

For three years he was editor of the Pine Level Times, and for two years of the DeSoto County Times. During 1890-92 he was county attorney; and in 1892-94 was judge of the county court at Arcadia, Fla.

Carlton, Frank H

lawyer, author,. was born Oct. 8, 1849, in Newport, N. H.

He has been editor of the St. Paul Press, and other publications. In 1881 he was secretary to Governor John L. Pillsbury; and now practices law in Minneapolis, Minn. His poems have appeared in standard works.

Carlton, Peter

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809.

Carmack, E. W

lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1858, in Castalian Springs, Tenn. He was elected to the legislature as a democrat in 1884; in 1886 joined the editorial staff of the Nashville American; in 1888 founded the Nashville Democrat; and afterward became editor-in-chief of the Nashville American newspaper. In 1892 he became editor of the Memphis Commercial. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Carmack, Samuel W

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 9, 1802, in Davidson county, Tenn. In 1842 he was appointed a territorial judge. He died Dec. 18, 1849.