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Coyner, Charles Luther

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 8, 1853, in Long Glade, Va. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar. He has been town clerk, deputy surveyor, county attorney for ten years, and special district attorney.

He has served as special district judge; judge of the probate; and judge of the county courts of Duval county, Tex. He was a delegate from his county to the Deep Water national convention in 1892; and a delegate to the World's Fair at Chicago. He is the author of The Life of Captain S. B. Coyner (his brother); Twenty Years in Texas; A Greenhorn in Texas; and a Tribute, a poem on the Coyner Family.

COZZENS, FREDERICK SCHILLER, artist, author, was born Oct. 11, 1846, in New York city. He has published a series of lithographed drawings of American Yachts, accompanied with descriptions by Lieut.

James D. J. Kelley.

He has also produced series of a outline-drawings of vessels of all kinds, comprising steamers from 1819 to the present, American and English yachts, and all varieties of American craft propelled by sails, oars, or paddles. COZZENS, FREDERICK SWARTOUT, merchant, author, was born March 5, 1818, in New York city. He was a wine merchant of New York city, once noted as a humorist, but now neglected. He is the author of The Sparrowgrass Papers; Acadia, or a Sojourn among the Blue Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men; Stone House on the Susquehanna; Prismatics; and Fitz- Greene Halleck, a Memorial. He died Dec. 23, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.