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Councill, William Hooper

educator, college president, was born July 12, 1848, in Fayetteville, N. C. He was brought to Alabama by the traders of 1857 through the famous Richmond slave pen.

In 1883 he was admitted to the bar, but has never left the profession of teaching for a day. He has occupied high positions in the church, temperance and charitable organizations. By earnest toil, self-denial and hard study he has built up the State Normal Industrial school of Alabama, of which he is president, and which is one of the largest institutions in the south. He is also the president of the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Alabama for Negroes.

COUNCILMAN, WILLIAM THOMAS, physician, author, was born in 1854, in Maryland. He is a physician and instructor at the Harvard Medical school, and the author of Contribution to the Study of Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; and On the Ætiology of Malaria; and other works. COURTENAY, AUSTIN MATLACK, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 22, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, in various private schools and academies, and graduated from the Virginia Theological seminary. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal churches in Maryland, Baltimore City, Pittsburg and Meadville, Pa. He has been a lecturer of Christian Evidences in the Allegheny college, and is a noted public lecturer and orator of unusual ability. He has received the degree of doctor of divinity from Dickinson college; and is the author of numerous articles which have appeared in current magazines and church papers.

COURTENAY, EDWARD HENRY, mathematician, author, was born in 1803 in Maryland. He was a civil engineer and was professor of mathematics in the university of Virginia from 1842-53. He published a Treatise on Differential Calculus and the Calculus of Variations. He died Dec. 21, 1853, in Charlottesville, Va. • COURTER, FRANKLIN C., artist, was born July 20, 1854, in Caldwell, N. J. In 1888 he was appointed professor of drawing and painting in Albion college, Albion, Mich. His best known ideal picture is his painting of Lincoln Showing Sojourner Truth the Bible Presented Him by the Colored People of Baltimore.

COURTNEY, THEODORE. He has attained prominence as one of the foremost men of Kansas, and has taken an active part in the political affairs of that state.