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Corbin, Joseph Carter

educator, college president, was born March 26, 1833, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He graduated in 1853 from the Ohio university. He has been state superintendent of education of Arkansas and for the past twenty years president of the Branch Normal college of Pine Bluff, Ark. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, of which he has been grand secretary.

Cordova, Alfred De

stock broker, was born Aug. 19, 1848, in Jamaica. First a broker in petroleum, he purchased a seat in the stock exchange of New York city in 1875, and his firm of Alfred de Cordova and Son have since been successful in the brokerage of stocks. In 1894 he was elected a governor of the stock exchange of New York city.

Corey, Charles Henry

clergyman, was born Dec. 12, 1834, in Canaan, N. B. In 1867 he was appointed principal of the Augusta institute, Augusta, Ga., and in the next year was transferred to Richmond, Va., as president of an institution for the training of colored preachers and teachers.

Corlet, Elijah

educator, was born in 1611 in London, England. He established himself in Cambridge soon after the settlement of the town, and taught the grammar school there for forty-six years. The society for the propagation of the gospel compensated him for preparing Indian scholars for the university. He died Feb. 24, 1687, in Cambridge, Mass.

Corlett, William W

lawyer, congressman, was born April 10, 1842, in Concord, Ohio. He was appointed postmaster at Cheyenne, Wyoming territory, in 1870; and was a member of the council in the territorial assembly in 1871. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Laramie county in 1872, 1873 and 1875; and was elected a delegate from the territory of Wyoming to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. mer-

Corliss, George Henry

inventor, was born June 2, 1817, in Easton, N. Y.

He invented many ingenious devices, among which is a machine for cutting the cogs of bevel-wheels, an improved boiler, with condensing apparatus for marine-engines, and pumping-engines for water works. He was a member of the Rhode Island legislature in 1868-70, and was a republican presidential elector in 1876. He died Feb. 21, 1888, in Providence, R. I.

Corliss, Guy C. H

lawyer, jurist, was born July 4, 1858, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar; and in 1886 moved to Grand Forks, N. D. In 1889 he was elected chief justice of the supreme court of North Dakota, which office he still fills.

Corliss, John B

lawyer, congressman, was born in Richford, Vt. He was elected city attorney of Detroit in 1881 and re-elected in 1883; during his four years' incumbency of the office of city attorney he prepared the first complete charter of Detroit, which was passed by the legislature in 1884 and is still the fun'damental law of the municipality. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Corliss, Mrs. Mary E

was born Dec. 22, 1832, in Great Falls, N. H. Her poems have appeared in the periodical press. She has collected her poems and published them in book form.

Cornaby, Mrs. Hannah

poet, was born March 17, 1822, in England. In 1881 she published a volume entitled Autobiography and Poems, which attracted considerable attention in her native state.

Cornelius, Elias

physician and patriot, was born in 1758 on Long Island. He obtained the appointment of surgeon's mate in the second Rhode Island regiment. He was captured and confined in the prison-ship Jersey, but escaped in March, 1778, rejoined the army, and continued with it till 1781. In later years he obtained a large practice. He died June 13, 1823, in Somers, N. Y.