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Cornwallis, Kinahan

journalist, author, was born Dec. 24, 1837, in London, England. He published in London fifteen novels of travel, history and poetry prior to coming to America. During 1860-66 he was editor and owner of the Knickerbocker Magazine, and also financial editor of the New York Herald during 1861-69.

He then became editor and proprietor of The Albion, and in 1886 established The Daily Investigator of New York city, of which he is still editor and proprietor.

In 1892 he published a volume of poems, and in 1893 The Conquest of Mexico and Peru. His other works are Yarra Yarra, or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical Narrative; The New Eldorado of British Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society; My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance; Pilgrims of Fashion; and The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange.

CORNWELL, GEORGE RATHBUN, bookseller, legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1836, in Penn Yan, N. Y., where for over forty years he was successfully engaged in business. During 1872-97 he was trustee of the Union school; and in 1891- 94 president of the board of education.

During 1882-84 he was chairman of the Yates republican committee; national delegate to the republican convention of 1884; member of the New York assembly in 1887-88; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1894; and in 1884, 1886, and 1888 was a candidate for congress from Yates county.

CORNWELL, HENRY SYLVESTER, physician, author, poet, was born in 1831 in New Hampshire. He was a physician of New London, Conn., who wrote much thoughtful verse. He was the author of The Land of Dreams and Other Poems (1879), which is the only collection that has been made of his poems. He died in 1896.