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Colerick, John – Colhoun, Edmund R

Colerick, John

lawyer, was born Sept. 20, 1837, in Indianapolis, Ind. He was elected district attorney for the twentieth common pleas district of Indiana. In 1870 he was unanimously put in nomination as the democratic candidate for congress in the ninth congressional district. He died March 7, 1872, at Fort Wayne, Ind.

Coles, Abraham

physician, author, was born Dec. 26, 1813, in Scotch Plains, N. J. He was a New Jersey physician who published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; and The Psalms in Verse, with notes. He died May 3, 1891, in Monterey, Cal.

Coles, Edward

governor, author, was born Dec. 15, 1786, in Albemarle county, Va. He was private secretary to President Madison, who sent him on a mission to Russia in 1817. On his return in 1818 he removed to Illinois, taking with him his slaves, whom he had liberated. He was governor of that state from 1823 to 1826. He died July 7, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Coles, George

clergyman, author, was born in 1792 in England. He was a methodist clergyman who published The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the Scriptures; and Heroines of Methodism.

Coles, Isaac

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1789 to 1791, and again from 1793 to 1797.

Coley, William Xenophon

journalist, was born May 7, 1868, in Farmington, N. C. He is the editor and owner of the Times of Mocksville, N. C., of which city he is mayor; and he has filled many important offices in his town, county and state.

Colfelt, Lawrence M

clergyman, was born Dec. 22, 1849, in Reedsville, Pa.

He is a noted clergyman of Oxford church of Philadelphia, and in 1885 Hampden Sidney college gave him the degree of D. D.

Colgate, James Boorman

banker, was born March 4, 1818, in New York city. He is a son of William Colgate. who came to America in 1798, settled in Harford county, Md., and in 1804 removed to New York, where he established the now widely known industry of manufacturing Colgate's soaps. James B. Colgate has been for many years a banker and dealer in securities and bullion. He has given large sums to Colgate university; and built and liberally endowed Colgate academy.

Colgate, Robert

manufacturer, was born in 1812. While long connected with his father's firm, his greatest achievement was the manufacture of white lead by corrosion for use in paints.

About 1845 he organized the firm of Robert Colgate and Company, and built works in the city of Brooklyn under the name of The Atlantic White Lead and Linseed Oil company. He died July 4, 1885.

Colgate, William

manufacturer, was born Jan. 25, 1783, in England. He emigrated to Maryland in 1795; and in 1804 became apprentice to a soap boiler of New York city, whose business he subsequently followed with success. He died March 25, 1857, in New York city.

Colhoun, Edmund R

naval officer, was born May 6, 1821, in Pennsylvania.

In 1863 he commanded the steamer Ladona, and afterward the monitor Weehawken, of the south Atlantic blockading squadron, in her various engagements with Forts Sumter, Wagner and Beauregard, in the summer of 1863. He was commandant at Mare Island navy-yard, Cal., in 1879-80, and inspector of vessels in California at the time of his retirement.