Colby, Anthony – Cole, Nathan
Colby, Anthony
state legislator, governor, was born in 1793 in New London, N. H. In 1828 he was elected to the state legislature, and served through twelve terms. In 1846 he became governor of New Hampshire; in 1861 was made adjutant-general of the state; and was subsequently a provost-marshal. He was a trustee of Dartmouth college; founded an academy at New London; and also endowed a baptist literary and theological institution in that town. He died July 13, 1873, in New London, N. H.
Colby, Charles Lewis
capitalist, was born May 22, 1839, in Roxbury, now part of Boston. In 1858 he graduated from the Brown university. Until 1870 he was engaged in the shipping and warehouse business in New York city; after that was interested in railroad construction and mining. In 1876 he served with distinction as a member of the Wisconsin state legislature. He has been president of the following institutions:
Wisconsin Central railroad; Minnesota, St. Croix and Wisconsin railroad; Milwaukee and Lake Winnebago railroad; Chicago, Wisconsin and Minnesota railroad; Chicago and Great Western railroad; Chippewa Falls and Western railroad; and various other business corporations. He resides in New York city, and is one of its most influential citizens.
Colby, Frederick Myron
journalist, author, was born Dec. 9, 1848, in Warner, N. H. He is a journalist of New Hampshire; and the author of The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; and Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.
Colby, Gardner
philanthropist, was born Sept. 2, 1810, in Bowdoinham, Maine. During the civil war he was a large contractor for the supply of clothing to the national army, and in 1870 became president of the Wisconsin Central railroad. A gift from him of $50,000 to Waterville college, Maine, caused the name of that institution to be changed to Colby university. He died April 2, 1879, in Newton Centre, Mass.
Colby, Henry Francis
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1842, in Boston, Mass. He has been pastor of the First Baptist church in Dayton, Ohio, since his ordination in 1868, and in 1883 was president of the Ohio baptist convention. He has published a class poem and sketches of Gardner Colby, Caleb Parker, and Ebenezer Thresh.
Colby, Leonard W
soldier, lawyer, was born in Cherry Valley, Ohio. He graduated in the regular, classical and law courses of the university of Wisconsin. He has served two terms in the state senate of the Nebraska legislature; has been assistant attorney of the United States; and is acknowledged to be one of the ablest lawyers in the western states. He served in the war of the rebellion, had command of a company in the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian war in 1863, commanded a battalion in the Indian campaign of 1876-78; was colonel in He command of the regular and state troops during the strike in Omaha in 1882, and was brigadier-general in command of the Nebraska military forces in the Sioux Indian war in the winter of 1890-91. has served in the infantry, cavalry and artillery, and in every military capacity from private to brigadier-general. He has been three years captain, six years colonel, and nine years brigadier-general.
Colby, Stoddard B
United States treasurer, was born in 1816 in Vermont.
In 1864 he was appointed register of the United States treasury at Washington.
He died Sept. 21, 1867, in Haverhill, N. H.
Colcleugh, Emma S
lecturer, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1846, in Thompson, Conn. She has traveled extensively, and her lectures on Alaska, Hawaii, and From Ocean to Ocean have won her national fame. Her poems occasionally appear in the periodical press.
Colcock, William F
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1823 in South Carolina. He was a member of the state legislature and speaker of the house; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1849 to 1853.
Colcord, Edward John
educator, poet, was born July 28, 1849, in Parsonsfield, Maine. In 1883 he became a teacher of ancient languages and general history in the Vermont academy; and since 1889 has been professor in a college at Columbia, S. C. His poems have appeared quite extensively in the periodical press, and his name appears in Poets of Maine.
Colcord, Roswell K
governor, was born April 25, 1839, in Searsport, Maine. He has been engaged in mining and milling in Nevada; and in 1890 was elected governor of Nevada.
Colden, Cadwallader
physician, governor, author, was born Feb. 17, 1688, in Scotland. He was a colonial physician, lieutenant-governor of the province of New York, 1761-76, and a prominent loyalist of his day. The History of the Five Indian Nations is his chief work. Among his many lesser writings is Principles of Actions on Matter. He died Sept. 28, 1776, in Long Island, N. Y.
Colden, Cadwallader D
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born April 4, 1769, in Springfield, N. Y. He served in the legislature of that state; held the post of district attorney of the United States for many years; and was at one time mayor of New York. He was a member of congress from 1821 to 1823; and was an early and intimate friend of Robert Fulton, and wrote his biography. He published Life of Robert Fulton; and Vindication of the Steamboat Right Granted by the State of New York. He died Feb. 7, 1834, in Jersey City, N. J.
Cole, Chester C
lawyer, jurist, was born June 4, 1824, in Oxford, N. Y.
He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and pursued his studies in the Oxford academy. In 1849 he was admitted to the bar, after completing a thorough course in the Harvard law school. In 1857 he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he soon won a reputation as an astute lawyer by his logical and forcible arguments. In 1864 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Iowa, and was twice elected to that high office. He resigned his position as chief justice to devote his entire time to the practice of law. In 1892 he was made dean of the Iowa College of Law, a department of the Drake university.
Cole, Cordelia Throop
prohibitionist, was born Nov. 17, 1833, in Hamilton, N. Y. She attended the Hamilton academy, now known as the Colgate seminary. For five years she was engaged in educational work in the Collegiate institute of Keokuk, Iowa; and the North Illinois institute of Henry, Ill. For seven years she was secretary of the Iowa Unitarian association; nine years state and national superintendent of the Purity department of the W. C. T. U., and lecturer on White Cross and Social Purity, and speaker for Total Abstinence and Prohibition for more than twenty years. She is also one of the managing editors of the Dial of Progress of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
Cole, Cornelius
journalist, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 17, 1822, in Lodi, N. Y. He was district attorney of Sacramento for two years; and in 1863 was elected a representative from California to the thirtyeighth congress. He was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1867 and ending in 1873. a
Cole, Francis Richard
lawyer, orator, author, poet, was born prior to the great fire in Chicago, Ill. He was given thorough education in the public schools; received the degree of LL. B. from the Lake Forest university; and subsequently received the degrees of Ph. D. and LL. D. He is one of the foremost lawyers of his native city; and in 1892 was a candidate for judge of the supreme court on the labor reform ticket.
He is a lecturer on medical jurisprudence in the Dutton Medical college; is president of the Citizens' Sovereignty association; and is the author of a large amount of poetry and prose; and in 1896 wrote a work entitled Civilization, Bryan and the Times.
Cole, George E
Congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1826, in Oneida county, N. Y.
He was a member of the Oregon legislature in 1851-53; and during the years 1859- 60 was clerk of the United States district court for Oregon. He moved to Washington territory in 1861; and in 1863 was elected a delegate from Washington Territory to the thirty-eighth congress.
Cole, Joseph Foxcroft
artist, was born Nov. 9, 1837, in Jay, Maine. His professional life has been spent in Paris and Boston. Among his paintings are Scene in Normandy, exhibited in the Paris salon of 1875; Norman Farm; and Sheepwashing in Normandy. Coast Scene in Normandy, shown at the Centennial exhibition of 1876, received a medal and diploma.
Cole, Nathan
banker, congressman, was born July 26, 1825, in St. Louis, Mo.
He became vice-president of two leading banks in his native city, and director in a number of other corporations. He was mayor of St. Louis from 1869 to 1871; was president of the Merchants' Exchange of that city in 1876; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyfifth congress as a republican.