Cornish, Johnston
manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born in Hunterdon county, N. J. He entered the Cornish Piano and Organ company as junior partner, and became the manager of that institution. He was elected mayor of Washington in 1884, when only twentyfive years old, and re-elected in 1886. He was elected state senator in 1890, and to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
CORNWALL, HENRY BEDINGER, mineralogist, author, was born July 29, 1844, in Southport, Conn. He is a professor of mineralogy at Princeton college since 1873, who has published A Manual of Blow-Pipe Analysis.