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Coles, Jonathan A

physician, was born May 6, 1843. In 1891 he was elected president of the Union Medical society; and has filled various offices of responsibility and trust both in and out of his profession in Newark, N. J.

COLES, WALTER,, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1845.

COLESWORTHY, DANIEL CLEMENT, author, poet, was born July 14, 1810, in Portland, Maine. He was a noted bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for children, like Don't Kill the Birds, and Little Words of Kindness, have been extremely popular. He is the author of Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children, and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; and A Day in the Woods, in verse, comprise the most of his writings. He died in 1893.

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