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Carman, William Bliss

author, poet, was born in 1861, in Canada. He is a poet whose literary work has been done mainly in New York and Boston.

He is the author of Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; Songs from Vagabondia; More Songs from Vagabondia; and Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea.

Carmichael, Hartley

clergyman, author, was born April 25, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. He has been rector of the Church of the Ascension in Hamilton, Canada; and is now rector of the St.

Paul's church of Richmond, Va. He is the author of several successful novels- Rooted in Dishonor; and The Centuries of Castle-Craig. He is also a musical composer; and is high in the ranks of Freemasonry.

Carmichael, Richard B

lawyer, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative from Maryland in the twenty-third congress, and was president of the courts of Queen Anne county in 1861.

Carmichael, William

diplomat, was born in Maryland. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780; was secretary of legation during Mr. Jay's mission to Spain; and remained as charge d'affaires after Mr. Jay left in 1782, receiving a commission in 1780, and retained the office for about fifteen years.

He died in February, 1795.

Carmiencke, John Hermann

artist, was born in 1810 in Germany. He was industrious in the pursuit of his art, and his paintings are faithful delineations of the forms of nature. He was a very successful teacher, a member of the Art association, and one of the earliest and most active members of the Brooklyn Academy of Design, and of the Artists' Fund society of New York. He died June 15, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Carnahan, James

clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 15, 1775, in Carlisle, Pa. He was ordained pastor of the united churches of Whitesborough and Utica, where he remained until 1814.

He opened a classical academy in Georgetown, D. C., and taught for nine years, when he was elected to the presidency of Princeton college of New Jersey. He died March 2, 1859, in Newark, N. J.

Carnegie, Andrew

manufacturer, author, was born Nov. 2, 1835, in Scotland. He is a noted steel manufacturer of Pittsburg who came to America in 1845.

He has made many important gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as a writer is distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism of his work. He is the author of An American Four-in- Hand in Europe; Round the World; and Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years' March of the Republic.

Carnes, Thomas P

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was solicitor-general, attorney-general, and judge of the supreme court, and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1793 to 1795. He died May 8, 1822, in Milledgeville, Ga.

Carney, Julia A

educator, author, was born April 6, 1823, in Lancaster, Mass. Her maiden name was Fletcher, under which name appeared the popular poem Little Drops of Water. Many of her poems have been set to music and published in school text-books, and used in the hymn-books of churches for more than half a century.

Carney, Thomas

governor. He was a governor of Kansas from 1861 to 1864.

Carnochan, John Murray

surgeon, author, was born July 4, 1817, in Savannah, Ga. He was noted as a surgeon of distinction; and was the author of Treatise on Congenital Dislocations, and Contributions to Operative Surgery.

He died Oct. 28, 1887, in New York city.