Cogswell, William
soldier, law-- yer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1838, in Bradford, Mass. He was mayor of the city of Salem, Mass., in 1867, '68, '69, '73, and '74; was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1870- 71, 1881-83, and a member of the state senate in 1885-86. He served in the union army from 1861 till 1865; and held commissions as captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the second Massachusetts infantry, and brigadier-general by brevet, and assigned by special order of the war department to the command of the third brigade, third division, twentieth army corps. He was elected to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses as a republican.