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Coffin, Roland Folger

journalist, author, was born March 8, 1826, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a marine reporter in New York city; and the author of An Old Sailor's Yarns; The America's Cup; and History of American Yachting. He died July 17, 1888, on Shelter Island, N. Y.

Coffin, Selden Jennings

educator, author, was born Aug. 3, 1838, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy at Lafayette college in 1873, and completed the latter's Winds of the Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette.

Coffin, Timothy Gardner

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 1, 1788, in Nantucket, Mass. He was graduated at Brown in 1813; was admitted to the Bristol bar in 1816, and obtained the foremost rank in the profession. He was judge advocate of Massachusetts militia under Gen. Lincoln. He died Sept. 19, 1854, in New Bedford, Mass.

Coffinsberry, James M

jurist, was born May 16, 1818, in Mansfield, Ohio.

He was prosecuting attorney of Lucas county for several years, but later removed to Cleveland; and in 1861 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas. He was principal secretary of the great union convention of Ohio, and was for several years the standing candidate of his party for representative in congress. He died Nov. 29, 1891, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Coffroth, John R

lawyer, was born Aug. 11, 1828, in Greencastle, Pa.

He has been several times a member of the Indiana legislature; and in 1866 he was a candidate for the office of attorneygeneral. In 1878 he was the unanimous choice of his party for congress, but declined on account of his private business.

Coggeshall, George

author, poet, was born in 1784, in Connecticut. He was a sea captain, of some prominence as a writer; and the author of Voyages to Various Parts of the World; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque During Our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; and Religious and Miscellaneous Poetry. He died about 1850.

Cogswell, Jonathan

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 3, 1782, in Rowley, Mass. He was a noted congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey; and the author of The Necessity of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; Godliness a Great Mystery; and The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit. He died Aug. 1, 1864, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Cogswell, Joseph Green

bibliographer, author, was born Sept. 27, 1786, in Ipswich, Mass. He, with the historian Bancroft, founded the celebrated Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass. He died Nov. 26, 1871, in Cambridge, Mass.

Cogswell, Mason Fitch

physician, was born Sept. 28, 1761, in Canterbury, Conn. He was chiefly instrumental in founding the asylum for the deaf and dumb, and was a friend and supporter of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, and was ten years president of the State Medical society. He died Dec. 10, 1830, at Hartford, Conn.

Cogswell, Mason Fitch

physician, was born Nov. 10, 1807, in Hartford, Conn. He served as assistant surgeon and surgeon in the volunteer army of the United States during the civil war. died Jan. 21, 1865, in Albany, N. Y.

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Cogswell, Milton

soldier, was born Dec. 4, 1825, in Noblesville, Ind.

After his retirement with the rank of brevet colonel in the regular army for gallant services, he was deputy governor of the Soldiers' home in Washington. He died Nov. 20, 1882, in Washington, D. C.