Byrum, Enoch Edwin – Cage, Harry
Byrum, Enoch Edwin
clergyman, journalist, author, poet, was born Oct. 13, 1861, in Randolph county, Ind. He is editor of the Gospel Trumpet and Shining Light; and is the author of The Secret of Salvation; Divine Healing; Boy's Companion; and other works.
Cabaniss, Elbridge Gerry
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1802, in Greene county, Ga. He moved to Forsyth, Monroe county, Ga., and was elected judge of the court of ordinary; in 1858 he became judge of the supreme court, and in 1861 was elected to the state legislature. He died in April, 1872, in Atlanta, Ga.
Cabaniss, Henry Harrison
journalist, was born June 21, 1848, in Forsyth, Ga. He graduated from the university of Georgia; was assistant secretary of the Georgia senate for eighteen years, and is now the proprietor of The Journal, a daily newspaper of Atlanta, Ga. con-
Cabaniss, Thomas B
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Forsyth, Ga. He entered the federate army in 1861, and surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox. He was elected to the house of representatives of Georgia in 1865, and four times subsequently to the senate of that state. He was solicitor-general of the Flint circuit for a term of four years, and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Cabell, Edward Carrington
planter, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1816, in Richmond, Va. In 1837 he removed to the territory of Florida, where he settled as a cotton planter, and represented the state of Florida in congress from 1847 to 1853.
Cabell, George C
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1837, in Danville, Va. He entered the confederate service in 1861, and at the end of the war held the rank of colonel. He was nominated for congress by the conservatives in 1874, and elected as a representative to the forty-fourth congress, and was reelected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a democrat.
Cabell, James Lawrence
physician, author, was born Aug. 26, 1813, in Nelson county, Va. He was an eminent Virginia physician, and the author of The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind. He died in 1889.
Cabell, Joseph
soldier, legislator, was born Sept. 19, 1732. For many years he held important civil offices in his native state, occupying a seat in the house of burgesses and serving as a member of the different conventions. During the war for independence he commanded the Buckingham county regiment. He died March 1, 1798, in Sion Hill.
Cabell, Mrs. Julia Mayo
author, poet, was born in 18-, in Virginia. She was the author of An Odd Volume of Facts and Fiction in Prose and Verse; and Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg. She died about 1855.
Cabell, Samuel J
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1756, in Amherst county, Va. He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the continental army. For many years he was a member of the Virginia assembly and was a representative in congress, from Virginia, from 1795 to 1803. He died Aug. 4, 1818, in Nelson county, Va.
Cabell, William
state senator, was born March 13, 1730, in Licking Hole, Va.
About 1773 he aided in establishing ironworks on Hardware river. He was a member of the house of burgesses when the colonies revolted against Great Britain, and a delegate to all the conventions looking toward national independence. He was chosen first state senator from the eighth district, and was a member of the committee that prepared the famous declaration of rights. He died March 23, 1798, in Union Hill.
Cabell, William H
governor, was born Dec. 16, 1772, in Boston Hill, Va.
He was governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808; afterward president of the court of appeals, and spent fifty years in public life. He died Jan. 17, 1853, in Richmond, Va.
Cable, Benjamin T
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1853, in Georgetown, Ky. He has been engaged in ranching and manufacturing; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Cable, George Washington
soldier, author, was born Oct. 12, 1844, in New Orleans, La. He is a writer of fiction who has reproduced with much success the life and dialect among the creoles of Louisiana. He served in the confederate army during the civil war, and is now a resident of Northampton, Mass. He is the author of Old Creole Days; The Grandissimes; Madame Delphine; Dr. Sevier; John March, Southerner; Bonaventure; Strange True Stories of Louisiana; The Creoles of Louisiana; The Silent South; The Busy Man's Bible; and The Negro Question.
Cable, Joseph
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.
Cable, Ransom R
railroad president, was born in 1834, in Athens county, Ohio. About 1859 he entered the coal and railroad business at Rock Island, and rose to be superintendent and finally president of the Peoria and Rock Island railroad. In 1883 he was made president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, which caused him to select Chicago for his home.
Cabot, George
United States senator, was born Dec. 3, 1751, in Salem, Mass. Before he was twenty-six years old he was elected a member of the provincial congress from Massachusetts, where he advocated those principles of political economy for which he was afterward distinguished. He was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of that state, and also of that which ratified the constitution of the United States. In 1791 to 1796 he served in the United States senate, and was one of the most distinguished members of that body. He died April 8, 1823, in Boston, Mass.
Cabot, James Elliot
journalist, author, was born in 1821 in Massachusetts.
He is a Boston writer whose principal work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Cadillac, Antoine De La M
founder of Detroit, was born about 1660, in France. He was the founder of Detroit in 1704; laid out lots and streets, and built the first chapel. He died about 1720 in France.
Cadmus, Cornelius A
congressman, was born Oct. 1844, in Bergen county, N. J. He was elected a member of the house of general assembly from Passaic county in 1883; was elected sheriff of Passaic county in 1887 for three years, and was elected to the fifty-second and reelected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Cadwalader, George
soldier, author. In 1862 he was appointed majorgeneral of volunteers. He was one of the commission to revise the military laws and regulations. In 1862 His Services in the Mexican Campaign of 1847 was published in Philadelphia.
Cadwalader, John
general, was born in 1742 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania convention in 1775, and an active member of the committee of safety. In the autumn of 1777, at the request of Washington, he assisted in organizing the militia of the eastern shore of Maryland. He died Feb. 10, 1786, in Shrewsbury, Pa.
Cadwalader, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 1, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1854 he was elected a representative in the thirty-fourth congress; declined a renomination and returned to the practice of his profession. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Cadwalader, Lambert
soldier, congressman, was born in Trenton, N. J.
He commanded a regiment early in the revolution, and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1784 to 1787. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1791, and again from 1793 to 1795. He died Sept. 12, 1823, in Trenton, N. J.
Cadwallader, Emma N
educator, poet. She is a writer of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and has contributed a number of meritorious poems to the periodical press.
Cady, Albemarle
soldier, was born Feb. 15, 1807, in Keene, N. H. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1829; served against the Indians in Florida until 1842, and was at the siege of Vera Cruz and in the battles of Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, and Molino del Rey. At the beginning of the civil war he was on duty on the Pacific coast, and remained there until 1864. He was retired for disability resulting from long and faithful service, and received the brevet of brigadier-general U. S. A., in 1865. He died March 14, 1888, in New Haven, Conn.
Cady, Daniel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 29, 1773, in Chatham, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 τo 1817; previously served five years in the state legislature, and in 1846 was elected a judge of the supreme court of New York, which position he resigned in 1856.
He died Oct. 31, 1859, in Johnstown, N. Y.
Cady, Ernest
merchant, governor, was born Sept. 6, 1842, in Stafford, Conn.
In 1870 he established the grocery firm of Cummings and Cady, of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1892 he was elected lieutenantgovernor of Connecticut.
Cady, John W
congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1822, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1825.
Cafferty, James H
artist, was born in 1819. His most notable paintings are My Girl; My Father; and Brook- Trout. He died Sept. 9, 1869.
Caffery, Donelson
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 10, 1835, in St. Mary, La. He served in the confederate army, first in the thirteenth Louisiana regiment, and subsequently on the staff of Gen. W. W. Walker. He practiced law and engaged in sugar planting after the war; was a member of the constitutional convention of 1879; and was elected to the state senate in 1892. He was appointed United States senator to fill a vacancy
Cage, Harry
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1833 to 1835.