Cole, Orsamus – Coleman, William
Cole, Orsamus
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1819, in Cazenovia, N. Y. He was appointed United States judge for Wisconsin territory; and was a representative in congress from Wisconsin from 1849 to 1851.
Cole, Richard Beverly
surgeon, was born Aug. 12, 1829, in Manchester, Va. He served in 1856 as surgeon-general of the vigilance committee; and from 1860 to 1864 as surgeon-general of the state. In 1869 he was called to the chair of obstetrics and gynecology in the university of California, and three years later was elected president, which position he still holds.
Cole, Thomas
artist, was born Feb. 1, 1801, in England. He has painted numerous pictures, and was engaged upon another ambitious series, entitled The Cross and the World, at the time of his death. He wrote an unpublished dramatic poem, a novel, and some sketches of travel. He died Feb. 11, 1847, in Catskill, N. Y.
Cole, Ulysses D
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 19, 1841, in Marysville, Ohio. He served as a captain in the union army, 1862-65. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Indiana house of representatives.
Cole, William Hinson
journalist, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. He served on the medical staff of the confederate army throughout the civil war. At its close he engaged in journalism in Baltimore; became editor and proprietor of the Evening Journal and subsequently city editor of the Baltimore Gazette. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-ninth congress. He died July 8, 1886, in Washington, D. C. a
Coleman, a. A
'legislator, jurist, poet, was born in Camden, S. C. At the age of twenty-seven years he was appointed judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Alabama, where he made splendid record for learning and legal ability. In 1862 he organized a regiment known as the fortieth Alabama, which he commanded for one year, when he resumed his seat on the bench. In 1884-85 he represented Hale county in the general assembly; and now practices law in Birmingham, Ala. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, some of which have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Coleman, Albert Loring
lawyer, state senator, was born in Junius, N. Y.
He taught school for a number of years, and is a successful lawyer of Centralia, Mo. In 1887 he was a representative in the Missouri state legislature; and in 1896 was elected to the state senate. He has been prominent in all reform movements for the welfare of his state; and has been instrumental in passing numerous bills of importance. As a lawyer he is one of the best known west of the Mississippi.
Coleman, Ann M. B
author, was born May 5, 1813, in Russellville, Ky. She has translated various French works for American publishers; and is the author of a volume entitled Life and Letters of J. J. Crittenden. She died Feb. 13, 1891, in Louisville. Ky. was
Coleman, Augustus L
surveyor, legislator, born May 23, 1855, in Exeter, N. Y. In 1890-91 he served as a member of the first state legislature of Wyoming; was United States deputy surveyor during 1891-94; and in 1896 was elected to the state senate for four years.
He is now also connected with the United States geological survey.
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Coleman, Hamilton Dudley
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born May 12, 1845, in New Orleans, La.
He enlisted in Washington artillery, army of northern Virginia, as a private, and served as such throughout the war. has been engaged in the business of manufacturing and dealing in plantation machinery over twenty years. He was active in the organization of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial exposition; was one of the organizers of the first electric lighting company established in New Orleans, and served as vice-president and afterward as president. He served two terms as president of the New Orleans chamber of commerce, and was elected November, 1888, one of the vicepresidents of the national board of trade. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Coleman, John
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 11, 1803, in Baltimore, Md.
He published Faber's Difficulties of Romanism; and The Episcopal Manual. For many years he was the editor of the Banner of the Cross, of Philadelphia, Pa. He died Sept. 16, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo.
Coleman, Julia
temperance reformer, philanthropist, was born Feb. 16, in Fulton county, N. Y. For upward of twenty years she has studied the subject of alcohol in all its phases, and is at the front in the scientific educational temperance work, being author of leading scientific text books for both old and young.
Her conferences, conducted in connection with grove camp meetings, are very largely attended and exert a wide influence.
COLEMAN, LEIGHTON, clergyman, bishop, author, was born May 3, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the Episcopal academy of Philadelphia, and the General Theological seminary of New York city. He was rector in several parishes; and in 1888 was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Delaware.
In 1896 he founded the Sisterhood of All Angels, whose mother house is in Wilmington, Del. He is also chaplain-general of the Society of the War of 1812, and chaplain of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati. He is the author of The Church in America, a history of the American episcopal church; and various other works.
Coleman, Lewis Miner
educator, was born Feb. 3, 1827, in Hanover county, Va. At the beginning of the war he raised an artillery company for the confederate service, became its captain, and in 1862 was appointed major of artillery.
He died in March, 1863.
Coleman, Lucy Newhall
reformer, was born July 26, 1817, in Sturbridge, Mass. She obtained a school in Rochester, N. Y., composed exclusively of colored children; and under the auspices of the New York Aid society, became president of the colored schools in the District of Columbia.
Coleman, Lyman
clergyman, author, was born June 14, 1796, in Middlefield, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman who was a classical professor at Lafayette college in 1861-82. He was the author of Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible; Text- Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; and Genealogy of the Lyman Family. He died March 16, 1882, in Easton, Pa.
Coleman, Nicholas D
congressman, was born in 1800 in Harrison county, Ky. In 1825 he was elected to the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1831. He was soon afterward appointed postmaster of Marysville, and to the same position in Vicksburg from 1841 to 1844. He was also for a time president of the Southern Pacific railroad. He died in May, 1874, in Vicksburg, Ky.
Coleman, Obed M
inventor, was born Jan. 23, 1817, in Barnstable, Mass.
He removed to Saratoga in 1842, and invented improvements in the accordion. He also began here to construct his æolian attachment to the piano-forte, which gave him high rank among inventors. He sold his patent for $100,000 in this country, and for about $10,000 in England. He died April 5, 1845, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Coleman, Thomas
banker, state senator, was born June 16, 1808, in Massachusetts. From 1852 to 1863 he was director of the Bank of Troy, resigning therefrom to assume the presidency of the First National bank. In 1872 he was presidential elector of the state; and in 1875 was state senator.
Coleman, Thomas Moore
civil engineer, poet, was born May 15, 1830, in Parke county, Ind. For seven years he was justice of the peace at Glendon, Iowa; a member of the county board of supervisors; county surveyor; and has filled various positions of trust in his county and state. He has written extensively for the periodical press, and his poems have been given a place in several standard works.
Coleman, Thomas Wilkes
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born March 31, 1834, in Eutaw, Ala. In 1853 he graduated from the Princeton college, N. J. In 1865 he was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama; was state's solicitor for many years; and chancellor of Alabama. He has served as associate justice of the supreme court of the state of Alabama, and still holds that position.
Coleman, William
lawyer, journalist, was born Feb. 14, 1766, in Boston, Mass. He studied law, began practice in Greenfield, Mass., and during Shay's rebellion served against the insurgents.
He removed to New York city about 1794, and was for a short time a law partner of Aaron Burr. He died July 13, 1829, in New York city.