Coghlan, John M
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1835, in Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the California legislature in 1865; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a representative of his adopted state, serving on the committees on private land claims and naval affairs.
COGSWELL, CHARLES NORTHEND, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1797, in South Berwick, Maine. In 1814 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and subsequently opened a law office in his native city. He became one of the foremost lawyers of New England; and was an acknowledged leader in the democratic party. During the latter part of his life he served two terms in the Maine state In senate, and one term in congress. these bodies he had the weight which always belongs to a man of solid learning and judgment and of useful business habits. His name was brought forward for governor at the time of his death, which occurred Oct. 11, 1843.