Cogswell, Joseph Green – Colburn, Zerah
Cogswell, Joseph Green
bibliographer, author, was born Sept. 27, 1786, in Ipswich, Mass. He, with the historian Bancroft, founded the celebrated Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass. He died Nov. 26, 1871, in Cambridge, Mass.
Cogswell, Mason Fitch
physician, was born Sept. 28, 1761, in Canterbury, Conn. He was chiefly instrumental in founding the asylum for the deaf and dumb, and was a friend and supporter of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, and was ten years president of the State Medical society. He died Dec. 10, 1830, at Hartford, Conn.
Cogswell, Mason Fitch
physician, was born Nov. 10, 1807, in Hartford, Conn. He served as assistant surgeon and surgeon in the volunteer army of the United States during the civil war. died Jan. 21, 1865, in Albany, N. Y.
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Cogswell, Milton
soldier, was born Dec. 4, 1825, in Noblesville, Ind.
After his retirement with the rank of brevet colonel in the regular army for gallant services, he was deputy governor of the Soldiers' home in Washington. He died Nov. 20, 1882, in Washington, D. C.
Cogswell, Nathaniel
soldier, was born Jan. 19, 1773, in Haverhill, Mass.
He had a strong desire for military life, offered his services to the patriot army in Mexico, and died holding a general's commission. He died near the Red river, Louisiana.
Cogswell, Thomas
soldier, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1746, in Haverhill, Mass.
He was captain of a company in Col. Gerrish's regiment at Bunker Hill; became major of Vose's regiment, and lieutenantcolonel of the fifteenth Massachusetts regiment. After national independence was secured, he settled on a farm near Gilmanton, N. H., and became a prominent citizen of the community, serving as a judge in the court of common pleas from 1784 till 1810. He died Sept. 3, 1810, in Gilmanton, N. H.
Cogswell, William
surgeon, was born July 11, 1760, in Haverhill, Mass. He was one of the founders of the New Hampshire Medical society and of Atkinson academy, giving the land on which the academy was built. He died Jan. 1, 1831, in Atkinson, N. H.
Cogswell, William
clergyman, author, was born June 5, 1787, in Atkinson, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman of New Hampshire, among whose works are Manual of Theology and Devotion; Assistant to Family Religion; Christian Philanthropist; Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millennium; and Letters to Young Men Preparing for the Ministry. He died April 18, 1850, in Gilmanton, N. H.
Cogswell, William
soldier, law-- yer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1838, in Bradford, Mass. He was mayor of the city of Salem, Mass., in 1867, '68, '69, '73, and '74; was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1870- 71, 1881-83, and a member of the state senate in 1885-86. He served in the union army from 1861 till 1865; and held commissions as captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the second Massachusetts infantry, and brigadier-general by brevet, and assigned by special order of the war department to the command of the third brigade, third division, twentieth army corps. He was elected to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses as a republican.
Cohen, Jacob Da Silva Solis
physician, lecturer, author, was born in 1838, in New York. He is a Philadelphia physician and medical lecturer of prominence; and the author of Treatise on Inhalations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup in Its Relations to Tracheotomy; and The Throat and the Voice.
Cohen, Louis
railroad president, was born Jan. 7, 1849, in Germany. Since 1894 he has been president of the Sandersville railroad at Sandersville, Ga.
Coit, Elizabeth Greer
lecturer, was born Jan. 10, 1820, in Worthington, Ohio. She received her education in the Worthington Female seminary; and for many years was engaged in educational work in that institution. She has become prominent as a lecturer and writer on topics relating to the human welfare.
She was the president of the first W.
R. A. in Columbus; and treasurer of the O. W. T. A. ever since its reorganization.
She was also president of the First church of spiritualists in Columbus, Ohio.
Coit, Henry Augustus
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1831.
He entered the ministry of the protestant episcopal church, and on the foundation of St. Paul's school in Concord, N. H., by Dr. George Shattuck, was chosen its first rector. He has published numerous sermons and addresses, and has contributed to periodical literature.
Coit, James Milnor
educator, author, was born Jan. 31, 1845, in Harrisburg, Pa. He was an instructor in chemistry at St. Paul's school, Concord; and the author of Elements of Chemical Arithmetic; and Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis.
Coit, Joseph Howland
educator, author. He was professor of mathematics and natural science in St. James' college, Md., until the closing of that institution in 1865, when he became associated with his brother in St. Paul's school, Concord, of which he is now vice-principal. He has edited a Life of Bishop Kerfoot.
Coit, Joshua
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1758, in New London, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1793 to 1798; and served a number of years in the legislature of Connecticut.
He died Sept. 5, 1798, in New London, Conn.
Coit, Robert
railroad president, was born April 26, 1830, in New London, Conn. Since 1881 he has been president of the New London and Northern railroad.
Coit, Thomas Winthrop
clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1803, in New London, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman, and professor in Berkeley Divinity school at Middletown from 1872 to 1885. He was the author of Necessity of Preaching Doctrine; Theological Commonplace Book; Puritanism in New England and the Episcopal Church; and Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England. He died June 21, 1885, in Middletown, Conn.
Coke, Richard
lawyer, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1833, and for many years a prominent member of the bar. He died March 30, 1851, in Abingdon, Va.
Coke, Richard
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born March 13, 1829, in Williamsburg, Va. He served in the confederate army as a commissioned officer. He was appointed district judge in 1865 and in 1866 was elected a judge of the state supreme court. In 1873 he was elected governor of Texas, and was re-elected in 1876. He resigned in 1877, having been elected a United States senator from Texas for the term of six years from March 4, 1877; was reelected in 1883 and 1889, serving till 1895.
Colaw, John Marvin
educator, journalist, lawyer, was born March 16, 1860, in Crabbottom, Va. He received his education at the Roanoke college, Va.; the Dickinson college, Pa.; and the university of Virginia. For many years. he was engaged in educational work; was associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly; and has served as commonwealth's attorney of Highland county, Va. He is well versed in all parts of the science of mathematics, and a prominent member of the American Mathematical society. He is a noted lawyer of Monterey, Va., and a forcible speaker.
Colborn, a. R
lumberman, was born Dec. 9, 1847, in Canada. In 1863 he enlisted as a volunteer in the thirtieth Michigan infantry at Detroit; a few weeks after he was detailed headquarters' clerk, at Fort Gratiot, Port Huron; and shortly after he was made commissary of the regiment, holding that position until they were mustered out. He carries a stock of from five to ten million feet of lumber, and is to-day the largest lumber dealer in Michigan City. His sale of shingles alone-one of his specialtiesamounts to fifty millions a year.
Colburn, Jeremiah
journalist, author, was born in 1815 in Boston, Mass. In 1857 he contributed articles to the Historical Magazine on American coins and coinage, which were followed for several years by short articles on these subjects in Notes and Queries. He is one of the founders of the Boston numismatic society, has been president, and since 1871 has been one of the editors of the American Journal of Numismatics.
Colburn, Martha K
artist, poet, was born Oct. 4, 1846, in Garrettsville, Ohio. She received her education at the Waterford academy, and has attained prominence as an artist and poet. She has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and many of her poems have been given a place in standard publications.
Colburn, Warren
mathematician, author, was born March 1, 1793, in Dedham, Mass. He was a noted mathematician of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was translated into many languages. He died Sept. 13, 1833, in Lowell, Mass.
Colburn, Zerah
engineer, author, was born Sept. 1, 1804, in Cabot, Vt. He was a well known mechanical engineer who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat and Its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.; and Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. He died May 4, 1870, in Massachusetts.