Cobb, Sylvanus
author, was born in 1823, in Waterville, Maine. He was the author of The King's Talisman; The Patriot Cruiser; Ben Hamed; and other works. He died July 20, 1887, in Hyde Park, Mass. coвв, тнOMAS R., lawyer, congressman, was born July 2, 1828, in Lawrence county, Ind. He was a state senator from 1858 to 1866; removed to Vincennes, Ind., in 1867; was president of the democratic state convention in 1876, and a delegate to the democratic national convention of that year. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.