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Cole, William Hinson

journalist, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. He served on the medical staff of the confederate army throughout the civil war. At its close he engaged in journalism in Baltimore; became editor and proprietor of the Evening Journal and subsequently city editor of the Baltimore Gazette. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-ninth congress. He died July 8, 1886, in Washington, D. C. a COLEMAN, A. A., 'legislator, jurist, poet, was born in Camden, S. C. At the age of twenty-seven years he was appointed judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Alabama, where he made splendid record for learning and legal ability. In 1862 he organized a regiment known as the fortieth Alabama, which he commanded for one year, when he resumed his seat on the bench. In 1884-85 he represented Hale county in the general assembly; and now practices law in Birmingham, Ala. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, some of which have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.