Clough, John E – Cobb, Amasa
Clough, John E
missionary, was born July 16, 1836, in Chautauqua county, N. Y. He was appointed by the American Baptist Missionary union missionary to India in 1865. a
Clough, Milo M
educator, journalist, poet, was born July 13, 1862, in Carlisle, Iowa. He received his education at the university of Des Moines; has been principal of various high schools, and professor of English literature and mathematics. He is the editor and proprietor of The Herald of Abercrombie, N. D., and the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Clough, Moses T
lawyer, was born Nov. 22, 1814, in Hopkinton, N. H. He is a successful lawyer of Troy, N. Y. He was the postmaster at Ticonderoga under the administration of Gen. Polk, and master in chancery and supreme court commissioner of the state of New York.
Clover, B. H
farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1837, in Franklin county, Ohio. He has twice been chosen president of the Kansas State Farmers' Alliance and Industrial union, and twice vice-president of the national organization of that order. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a candidate of the Farmers' Alliance.
Clover, Lewis P
painter, was born Feb. 20, 1819, in New York city. The titles of some of his best known paintings are The Rejected Picture, The Idle Man, Repose by Moonlight, and The Phrenologist. These were all exhibited in the National Academy of Design.
Clowney, William K
lawyer, congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was commissioner in equity of South Carolina; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1837 to 1839.
Clubb, Henry Stephen
journalist, clergyman, was born June 21, 1827, in Colchester, England. During 1862-66 he was assistant quartermaster, with rank of captain, in the United States volunteer service. In 1873-74 he was a state senator in the Michigan legislature; and the latter year was also secretary of the constitutional convention of Michigan. He then became editor and owner of the Grand Haven Herald, which he founded in 1869. In 1876 he was called to the pastorate of the Bible Christian church of Philadelphia; became president of the Vegetarian society of America in 1888; and since 1889 has been editor of Food, Home and Garden.
Cluff, Benjamin
educator, college president, was born Feb. 7, 1858, in Provo City, Utah. He attended the Brigham Young academy, and the university of Michigan; and has received the degrees of B. S. and M. S. During 1873-82 he was a traveling missionary in the Sandwich Islands; and in 1883-86 was president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement association of Utah. He has been an instructor and vice-president of the Brigham Young academy; and since 1892 has been president of that institution.
Clunie, Thomas Jefferson
lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1852, in St. John's, Newfoundland. He was elected to the legislature in 1875, and was appointed brigadier-general of the fourth brigade of the National guard of California in 1876. He was a delegate at large to the national democratic convention at Chicago in 1884, and represented California democrats on the committee on platform and resolutions. He served one term in the state senate, and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.
Cluseret, Gustave Paul
soldier, author, was born June 13, 1823, in France.
He served in the civil war and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1862. He is the author of Mexico and the Solidarity of Nations.
Clute, Henry Alson
farmer, merchant, soldier, state legislator, was born March 24, 1840, in Wayne county, N. Y.
His ancestors settled on the Hudson river soon after the settlement of New York. His father was born in 1804 in Johnstown, N. Y., where his grandfather had settled before the revolutionary war.
He moved to Michigan with his parents when four years of age; and during the civil war served for three years in the second Missouri cavalry or Merrill Horse.
He has filled numerous public offices of trust in Calhoun county; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature from Marshall.
Clymer, Albert
farmer, poet, was born Dec. 10, 1827, in Fairfield county, Ohio. He was the author of a volume of poems entitled Echoes of the Woods and other works. He died in 1897.
Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria Dietz
author, poet, was born in 1856 in New York city. She is a New York writer, once an actress, and for some time the president of the Woman's club of New York, Sorosis. She has written three volumes of poems: The Triumph of Love; The Triumph of Time; and The Triumph of Life.
Clymer, George
signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1739 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the first continental treasurers; in 1776 was a member of congress, and signed the declaration of independence. He was a member of the old congress in 1780, and a representative, under the constitution from 1789 to 1791, from Pennsylvania. He was also a member of the convention which formed the federal constitution, and signed that instrument. In 1791 he was placed at the head of the excise department in Pennsylvania; and in 1796 was sent to Georgia to negotiate a treaty with the Creek and Cherokee Indians. He was afterwards president of the Philadelphia bank and of the Academy of Fine Arts. He died Jan. 23, 1813, in Morrisville, Pa.
Clymer, Hiester
congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1837, in Berks county, Pa. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania in 1860-66 when he was a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, and re-elected to the fortyfifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died June 12, 1884.
Clymer, Meredith
physician, author, was born in June, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distinguished physician and medical writer of New York city; and the author of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; and Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.
Clymer, Robert S
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 23, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has filled numerous public offices of trust in New Jersey; is a prominent lawyer of Woodbury; and president law judge of Gloucester county. was
Coal, P. Abram
journalist, born Nov. 28, 1856, in Washington, Pa.
He is the editor and owner of The Daily and Weekly Enterprise of Gibson City.
Coale, Robert Dorsey
chemist, was born Sept. 13, 1857, in Baltimore, Md.
During 1883-84 he was lecturer on chemistry, and in 1884 became professor of chemistry and toxicology in the university of Maryland. His original scientific researches were published in the American Chemical Journal.
Coan, Sherwood
singer, was born about 1830, in New Haven, Conn. He sang with Clara Louise Kellogg, Parepa- Rosa, Zelda Harrison, William Castle and other well-known singers, and went with the Rosas to England, where he attracted much attention. He died Nov. 25, 1874, in Chicago, Ill.
Coan, Titus
missionary, author, was born Feb. 1, 1801, in Killingsworth, Conn.
He is a missionary of note in the Sandwich Islands, who wrote Life in Hawaii; and Adventures in Patagonia. He died Dec. 1, 1882, in Hawaii.
Coan, Titus Munson
physician, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 27, 1836, in the Hawaiian Islands. He is an eminent physician of New York city; and for many years was a distinguished surgeon in the United States navy. He is a director of the New York bureau of revision, and is the author of Ounces of Prevention; and Topics of the Times.
Coann, Ezra T
banker, was born March 25, 1829, in Byron, N. Y. During the war he was a military commander under appointment of Gov. Morgan. He was director and vice-president of the Niagara Falls International Bridge company; was a merchant during 1850-68; and then traveled extensively in foreign countries. In 1870 he established Coann's bank of Albion, N. Y., which merged into the Citizens' National bank in 1895, of which he is president.
Coates, Mrs. Florence E
poet.
She has gained a national reputation as a genuine poet, and as a musician she possesses an insight and power of interpretation of the great masters. She is the wife of Mr. E. H. Coates, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Coates, Kersey
pioneer, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in Salisbury, Pa. He located in Kansas City, and in 1857, when the city began to show signs of business life and activity, Col. Coates uniting his efforts with those of other enterprising citizens, newspapers were established, railroads projected, favorable legislation was secured, and important municipal improvements were started, the result of which was a stream of migration that speedily filled up Kansas City. He died April 24, 1887.
Coates, Kinney
poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real.
Cobb, Amasa
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in Crawford county, Ill. During the civil war he was a colonel in the fifth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry and became brevet brigadier-general United States volunteers. He led the troops which turned the enemy's left at Williamsburg, May 5, 1862; and commanded Hancock's brigade at the Battle of Antietam. He was a representative in congress from the third district of Wisconsin for four terms-thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth and fortyfirst congresses. He was judge of the supreme court of Nebraska for fourteen years, during 1878-92, four years of which he was chief justice.