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Colman, Benjamin

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1673, in Boston, Mass. He was a famous congregational minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far more polished and flexible.

Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. He died Aug. 29, 1747, in Boston, Mass.

Colman, Elihu

attorney, legislator, was born May 11, 1841, in Oneida, Wis.

He graduated from the Lawrence university in 1865, and was elected to the Wisconsin legislature in 1872. He was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin during President Harrison's administration.

Colman, Henry

author, was born Sept. 12, 1785, in Boston, Mass. He was an agricultural writer of Massachusetts, who was a congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a unitarian minister at Salem; and the author of Report on Silk Culture; European Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; and European Life and Manners. He died Aug. 14, 1849, in England.

Colman, Henry

clergyman, was born May 14, 1834, in Bridport, Vt. He is an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and since 1868 has been trustee of the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis.

Colman, Samuel

painter, was born in 1832, in Portland, Me. He began early to sketch from nature in and around New York, where his father was a publisher, and became a pupil of Asher B. Durand.

His studio is in New York, and he was the first president of the American water color society. His pictures include Bay of Gibraltar; Misty Afternoon in Venice; Ruins of Mosque in Algeria; and Tower of Giralda.

Colquillard, Alexis

manufacturer, capitalist, was born April 27, 1825, in Detroit, Mich. He kept on increasing his landed possessions until 1865, when he established the Colquillard Wagon works of South Bend, Ind.

Colson, David Grant

lawyer, congressman, was born April 1, 1861, at Yellow Creek, Ky. In 1887 he was elected to the Kentucky house of representatives, session of 1887-88; and was the republican nominee for state treasurer in 1889. He was elected mayor of Middlesboro in 1893, for four years, which position he resigned to accept a seat in the fiftyfourth congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Colston, Edward

congressman, was born in 1788, in Berkeley county, Va.

He served for a long time as magistrate of the county, and in the capacity of high sheriff. He was frequently a member of the state legislature, and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1819. He died April 23, 1851.

Colt, Le Baron Bradford

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 25, 1846, in Dedham, Mass. He was a representative in the state legislature of Rhode Island in 1879 and 1880, and in 1881 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Rhode Island.

Colton, Calvin

clergyman, author, was born in 1789 in Longmeadow, Mass.

He was an episcopal clergyman of some note in his day as a political writer, and the author of Manual for Emigrants to America; History of American Revivals; Protestant Jesuitism; Public Economy for the United States, a plea for protection; Life of Henry Clay; and Junius Tracts.

He died March 13, 1857, in Savannah, Ga.

Colton, Gardner Quincy

inventor, author, was born Feb. 7, 1814, in Georgia, Vt. He discovered the remarkable properties and made a practical application of the use of nitrous oxide; and commenced a series of lectures on the effect of nitrous oxide upon the human system. He has also achieved some celebrity as a writer on various theological subjects.