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Colburn, Jeremiah

journalist, author, was born in 1815 in Boston, Mass. In 1857 he contributed articles to the Historical Magazine on American coins and coinage, which were followed for several years by short articles on these subjects in Notes and Queries. He is one of the founders of the Boston numismatic society, has been president, and since 1871 has been one of the editors of the American Journal of Numismatics.

Colburn, Martha K

artist, poet, was born Oct. 4, 1846, in Garrettsville, Ohio. She received her education at the Waterford academy, and has attained prominence as an artist and poet. She has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and many of her poems have been given a place in standard publications.

Colburn, Warren

mathematician, author, was born March 1, 1793, in Dedham, Mass. He was a noted mathematician of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was translated into many languages. He died Sept. 13, 1833, in Lowell, Mass.

Colburn, Zerah

engineer, author, was born Sept. 1, 1804, in Cabot, Vt. He was a well known mechanical engineer who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat and Its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.; and Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. He died May 4, 1870, in Massachusetts.

Colby, Frederick Myron

journalist, author, was born Dec. 9, 1848, in Warner, N. H. He is a journalist of New Hampshire; and the author of The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; and Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.

Colby, Gardner

philanthropist, was born Sept. 2, 1810, in Bowdoinham, Maine. During the civil war he was a large contractor for the supply of clothing to the national army, and in 1870 became president of the Wisconsin Central railroad. A gift from him of $50,000 to Waterville college, Maine, caused the name of that institution to be changed to Colby university. He died April 2, 1879, in Newton Centre, Mass.

Colby, Henry Francis

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1842, in Boston, Mass. He has been pastor of the First Baptist church in Dayton, Ohio, since his ordination in 1868, and in 1883 was president of the Ohio baptist convention. He has published a class poem and sketches of Gardner Colby, Caleb Parker, and Ebenezer Thresh.

Colby, Stoddard B

United States treasurer, was born in 1816 in Vermont.

In 1864 he was appointed register of the United States treasury at Washington.

He died Sept. 21, 1867, in Haverhill, N. Η.

Colcleugh, Emma S

lecturer, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1846, in Thompson, Conn. She has traveled extensively, and her lectures on Alaska, Hawaii, and From Ocean to Ocean have won her national fame. Her poems occasionally appear in the periodical press.

Colcock, William F

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1823 in South Carolina. He was a member of the state legislature and speaker of the house; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1849 to 1853.

Colcord, Edward John

educator, poet, was born July 28, 1849, in Parsonsfield, Maine. In 1883 he became a teacher of ancient languages and general history in the Vermont academy; and since 1889 has been professor in a college at Columbia, S. C. His poems have appeared quite extensively in the periodical press, and his name appears in Poets of Maine.

Colcord, Roswell K

governor, was born April 25, 1839, in Searsport, Maine. He has been engaged in mining and milling in Nevada; and in 1890 was elected governor of Nevada.