Carey, Matthew – Carmichael, Hartley
Carey, Matthew
author, was born Jan. 28, 1760, in Ireland. He entered into politics, and established himself in Philadelphia as a bookseller. His writings include The Olive Branch, or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic, which soon entered a tenth edition; Vindiciæ Hibernice; Thoughts on Penitentiaries and Prison Discipline; Essays on Political Economy; and The Yellow Fever of 1793. He died Sept. 16, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Carhart, Henry Smith
educator, author, was born March 27, 1844, in Coeymans, N. Y. In 1869 he graduated from the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn. He is the author of Primary Batteries; Elements of Physics; Electrical Measurements; and University Physics.
Carleton, Ezra C
merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1838, in St. Clair, Mich. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Port Huron, Mich., in 1862; and was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Carleton, Henry
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1785, in Virginia. He served as a lieutenant of infantry under Gen. Jackson in the campaign that terminated Jan. 8, 1815, and then actively engaged in the profession of law. Soon afterward, in connection with Mr. L. Moreau, he began the translation of those portions of Las Siete Partidas, a celebrated Spanish code of laws, that were observed in Louisiana. He became United States district attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana in 1832, and was subsequently appointed a judge of the supreme court of the same state, but resigned in 1839 on account of ill health.
He published Liberty and Necessity; and read an Essay on the Will before the American Philosophical society a few days before his death. He died March 28, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Carleton, Henry Guy
journalist, author, was born in 1856, in New Mexico.
He is a journalist of New York city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are Memnon; The Pembertons; and Victor Durand.
Carleton, Osgood
mathematician, author, was born in 1742. He was a Massachusetts mathematician; and the author of American Navigator; South American Pilot; and Practice of Arithmetic. He died in June, 1816, in Litchfield, N. H.
Carleton, Will
author, lecturer and editor, was born Oct. 21, 1845, in Hudson, Mich. He received his education Farm Festivals; at the Hudson elementary and high schools, and Hillsdale college, Michigan. After graduation he did newspaper work in Hillsdale, Detroit and Chicago-writing locals, sketches, stories, editorials, and His books poems. are: Farm Ballads, Farm Legends, City Ballads, City Legends, City Festivals; Rhymes of Our Planet; and The Old Infant and similar stories. He is also editor of an illustrated magazine, entitled Everywhere, published in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he resides.
Carlile, John Snyder
lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 16, 1817, in Winchester, Va. He was elected to the state senate in 1847; and served until 1851; and in 1850 was a member of the constitutional convention of Virginia. In 1855 he was elected a representative in congress; in 1861 was elected a representative from Virginia to the thirty-seventh congress, and was soon afterward transferred to the senate. He died Oct. 24, 1878, in Clarksburg, W. Va.
Carlin, John
artist, was born June 15, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was deaf and dumb from infancy. Among his recent contributions to the exhibitions of the Artists' Fund society are The Village Gossips; The Admirer of Nature; The Twin Grandchildren; Old and Young; Going after Marshmallows; Solid Comfort; and The Grandfather's Story. Mr. Carlin has also written some poetry.
Carlin, Thomas
governor of Illinois, was born in 1791, in Kentucky. He was a pioneer to Illinois in 1813; served under Gen. Howard in that and the following year during the war of 1812-14; and several times volunteered to perform most perilous undertakings against the Indians. He was governor of the state in 1838-42. He died Feb. 4, 1852.
Carlin, William Passmore
soldier, was born Nov. 24, 1829, in Rich Woods, Ill. He participated in the march to the sea and through the Carolinas; and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general for services at Bentonville, N. C., and major-general for services during the war. From 1867 till 1868 he was assistant commissioner of the freedmen's bureau in Tennessee.
Carlisle, John Griffin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1835, in Kenton, Ky. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1859-1861; was nominated for presidential elector on the democratic ticket in 1864, but declined; and was elected to the state senate in 1866, and re-elected in 1869.
He was a delegate at large from Kentucky to the national democratic convention at New York in 1868; was nominated for lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 1871; resigned his seat in the senate in 1871; and was elected lieutenant-governor in 1871, serving until 1875. He was alternate presidential elector for the state at large in 1876; was elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses; was elected speaker in the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses; and was elected to the United States senate May 17, 1890, to fill a vacancy. He resigned to accept the portfolio of secretary of the treasury in President Cleveland's cabinet in 1893, and entered upon the duties of the office March 7, 1893, and served until 1897.
Carll, John Franklin
civil engineer, inventor, was born May 7, 1828, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He devised the static pressure sand-pump, removable pumpchamber, and adjustable sleeve for pistonrods, now used in operating oil-wells. In 1874 he became attached to the geological survey of Pennsylvania, and afterward was assistant in the oil and gas region.
Carlton, Elam B
lawyer, jurist, was born April 3, 1864, in South Florida.
For three years he was editor of the Pine Level Times, and for two years of the DeSoto County Times. During 1890-92 he was county attorney; and in 1892-94 was judge of the county court at Arcadia, Fla.
Carlton, Frank H
lawyer, author,. was born Oct. 8, 1849, in Newport, N. H.
He has been editor of the St. Paul Press, and other publications. In 1881 he was secretary to Governor John L. Pillsbury; and now practices law in Minneapolis, Minn. His poems have appeared in standard works.
Carlton, Henry Hull
soldier, journalist, lawyer, United States senator, congressman, was born May 14, 1835, in Athens, Ga. He was elected a representative to the general assembly of Georgia in 1872, and was successively re-elected till 1877, inclusive, when he declined re-election. He was state senator in 1884-85, and president of the senate during that term.
He was editor and proprietor of the Athens Banner until 1880, when he commenced the practice of law; and was elected city attorney of Athens. He was four years in the confederate army, under General R. E. Lee, holding the rank of lieutenant, captain, and major of artillery. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Carlton, Peter
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809.
Carmack, E. W
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1858, in Castalian Springs, Tenn. He was elected to the legislature as a democrat in 1884; in 1886 joined the editorial staff of the Nashville American; in 1888 founded the Nashville Democrat; and afterward became editor-in-chief of the Nashville American newspaper. In 1892 he became editor of the Memphis Commercial. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Carmack, Samuel W
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 9, 1802, in Davidson county, Tenn. In 1842 he was appointed a territorial judge. He died Dec. 18, 1849.
Carman, William Bliss
author, poet, was born in 1861, in Canada. He is a poet whose literary work has been done mainly in New York and Boston.
He is the author of Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; Songs from Vagabondia; More Songs from Vagabondia; and Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea.
Carmichael, Daniel L
soldier, educator, lawyer, stock raiser, was born Nov. 9, 1843, in Wayne county, N. Y. He received his education in the high schools and academy of Charlotte and Lansing, Mich. He served gallantly as a soldier during the civil war; and subsequently was engaged in educational work. He then took up the practice of law, and has served as prosecuting attorney. He is prominent in the Order of Foresters; grand dictator of the Knights of Honor of Illinois; and commander of the Whittier post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Carmichael, Hartley
clergyman, author, was born April 25, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. He has been rector of the Church of the Ascension in Hamilton, Canada; and is now rector of the St.
Paul's church of Richmond, Va. He is the author of several successful novels- Rooted in Dishonor; and The Centuries of Castle-Craig. He is also a musical composer; and is high in the ranks of Freemasonry.