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Clymer, Robert S

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 23, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has filled numerous public offices of trust in New Jersey; is a prominent lawyer of Woodbury; and president law judge of Gloucester county. was

Coal, P. Abram

journalist, born Nov. 28, 1856, in Washington, Pa.

He is the editor and owner of The Daily and Weekly Enterprise of Gibson City.

Coale, Robert Dorsey

chemist, was born Sept. 13, 1857, in Baltimore, Md.

During 1883-84 he was lecturer on chemistry, and in 1884 became professor of chemistry and toxicology in the university of Maryland. His original scientific researches were published in the American Chemical Journal.

Coan, Sherwood

singer, was born about 1830, in New Haven, Conn. He sang with Clara Louise Kellogg, Parepa- Rosa, Zelda Harrison, William Castle and other well-known singers, and went with the Rosas to England, where he attracted much attention. He died Nov. 25, 1874, in Chicago, Ill.

Coan, Titus

missionary, author, was born Feb. 1, 1801, in Killingsworth, Conn.

He is a missionary of note in the Sandwich Islands, who wrote Life in Hawaii; and Adventures in Patagonia. He died Dec. 1, 1882, in Hawaii.

Coan, Titus Munson

physician, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 27, 1836, in the Hawaiian Islands. He is an eminent physician of New York city; and for many years was a distinguished surgeon in the United States navy. He is a director of the New York bureau of revision, and is the author of Ounces of Prevention; and Topics of the Times.

Coann, Ezra T

banker, was born March 25, 1829, in Byron, N. Y. During the war he was a military commander under appointment of Gov. Morgan. He was director and vice-president of the Niagara Falls International Bridge company; was a merchant during 1850-68; and then traveled extensively in foreign countries. In 1870 he established Coann's bank of Albion, N. Y., which merged into the Citizens' National bank in 1895, of which he is president.

Coates, Mrs. Florence E

poet.

She has gained a national reputation as a genuine poet, and as a musician she possesses an insight and power of interpretation of the great masters. She is the wife of Mr. E. H. Coates, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Coates, Kersey

pioneer, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in Salisbury, Pa. He located in Kansas City, and in 1857, when the city began to show signs of business life and activity, Col. Coates uniting his efforts with those of other enterprising citizens, newspapers were established, railroads projected, favorable legislation was secured, and important municipal improvements were started, the result of which was a stream of migration that speedily filled up Kansas City. He died April 24, 1887.

Coates, Kinney

poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real.

Cobb, Clinton L

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1842, in Elizabeth City, N. C. He was elected to the forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses, serving on the committees on revolutionary pensions, war claims and chairman of freedmen's affairs.

Cobb, Cyrus

artist, author, poet, was born Aug. 6, 1834, in Malden, Mass. He is an artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing much occasional verse, has published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.