Conway, Thomas – Cook, Seth
Conway, Thomas
soldier, was born Feb. 27, 1733, in Ireland. He was a brigadier-general in the revolutionary war. He was obnoxious to Washington, and out of Conway's anger against Washington grew the Conway cabal.
Conwell, Russell H
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in Massachusetts. He is a baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of Why the Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law; Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard Taylor; Life of President Garfield; and Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the Vineyards of Lucerna.
Cony, Samuel
state legislator, jurist, governor, was born Feb. 27, 1811, in Augusta, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1835 and 1862; member of the council in 1839; and judge of probate from 1840 to 1847. He was state treasurer from 1850 to 1855; mayor of Augusta in 1854, and governor of Maine from 1864 to 1867. He died Sept. 5, 1870, in Augusta, Maine.
Conyngham, David Power
journalist, author, was born in 1840 in Ireland. He was a New York journalist, and editor of The Tablet, and the author of Sherman's March Through the South; Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns.
In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great Struggle for Ireland; The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage; O'Mahoney, Chief of the Commeraghs; and Rose Parnell, the Flower of Avondale. He died in 1883.
Conyngham, John Butler
soldier, was born in 1827. While a prisoner at Charleston he was one of the number selected as hostages to be shot in case of a bombardment of the city by our forces.
In 1871 he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for gallant service in the field. During his term of service in the regular army he was mostly employed on the Indian frontier. He died May 27, 1871, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Cook, Albert John
naturalist, author, was born Aug. 30, 1842, in Owasso, Mich. He was a professor of zoölogy at Michigan Agricultural college, and the author of Injurious Insects of Michigan; and Manual of the Apiary.
Cook, Albert Stanburrough
educator, author, was born March 6, 1853, in Montville, N. J. In 1879-81 he was associate in English in the Johns Hopkins university; was professor of English language and literature in the university of California during 1882-89, and since 1889 has filled the same chair in the Yale university of New Haven, Conn. In 1897 he became president of the Modern Language association of America. He has edited Siever's Old English Grammar; Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment; and Sidney's Defence of Poesy.
Cook, Burton C
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 11, 1819, in Monroe county, N. Y. He was elected state's attorney for the ninth circuit in 1846, for two years, and was re-elected, in 1848, for four years. He was a member of the state senate from 1852 to 1860, and in 1864 was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a union republican.
Cook, Clarence Chatham
journalist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Dorchester, Mass. He is an art critic of New York city, and editor of The Studio.
He has edited Lübke's History of Art, and published also The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks; and The Central Park.
Cook, Daniel P
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1795 in Scott county, Ky. He moved to the territory of Illinois in 1815; and was the first attorney-general of the state of Illinois. During 1820- 27 he represented Illinois in congress, and was considered by such men as Mr.
Calhoun and Judge McLean as a man of remarkable talents. He died Oct. 16, 1827.
Cook, Frederick Washington
legislator, railroad president, was born Feb. 1, 1832, in Washington, D. C. He was elected as representative from Vanderburg county to the legislature of Indiana. In this capacity he served during the called session of 1864, and also during the regular session of 1864-65. He is president of the Evansville Suburban and Newburg railway, at Evansville, Ind.
Cook, George Hammell
educator, author, was born Jan. 5, 1818, in Hanover, N. J. He was a professor of geology at Rutgers college and state geologist, whose only published work is The Geology of New Jersey. He died Sept. 22, 1889, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Cook, Joel
journalist, author, was born in 1842, in Pennsylvania. He is a Philadelphia journalist, and financial editor of the Public Ledger. He is the author of Brief Summer Rambles near Philadelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Picturesque and Descriptive; and The Siege of Richmond.
Cook, John
soldier, legislator, was born June 12, 1826, in Belleville, Ill. In 1854 he was elected mayor of Springfield, Ill.; two years later became sheriff of Sangamon county, and in 1858 was appointed quartermaster-general of Illinois. He became a general during the civil war.
In 1868 he was a member of the Illinois state legislature, and was instrumental in securing the second appropriation for the erection of the new state house.
Cook, John C
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1846, in Seneca county, Ohio. He settled in Iowa; and in 1878 was elected judge of the sixth judicial district. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-seventh congress. was
Cook, John P
congressman, was born in New York. On taking up his residence in Iowa, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Cook, John Williston
educator, college president, was born April 20, 1846, in Oneida county, N. Y. He graduated from the Illinois State university, in which institution he was an instructor from 1868-90, when he was appointed president.
Cook, Joseph
lecturer, author, was born Jan. 26, 1838, near Ticonderoga, N.
Y. In 1874 he began a series of Monday lectures in Boston, Mass., on the relations of religion and science; and subsequently delivered them in the principal cities of the United States. He has lectured throughout the principal countries of Europe, and in India, China, Japan, Australia, and the Sandwich Islands. His published works, comprising his lectures, carefully written out, have been very successful, some of which have passed through as many as sixteen editions. His works are Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes; and Current Religious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms.
Cook, Marc
journalist, author, poet, was born in 1854 in Rhode Island.
He was a journalist of New York, and the author of The Wilderness Cure; and Vandyke Brown Poems. He died Oct. 4, 1882, in Utica, N. Y.
Cook, Martha Elizabeth Dun- Can Walker
author, poet, was born July 23, 1806. She was a good linguist, and translated several works from the German and French. Among these were Liszt's Life of Chopin, translated from the French; The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems, by Count Sigismund Krasinski, translated from the Polish through the German and French; and Life of Joan of Arc. She died Sept. 15, 1874, in Hoboken, N. J.
Cook, May Amy
pianist, was born Dec. 4, 1869, in Paw Paw, Mich. She has studied under private teachers, and spent three years in Berlin during 1891-94. She has attained prominence as a concert pianist; was organist at the First Methodist church of Portland, Ore., during 1889-91; and now gives recitals and piano instruction in that city. con-
Cook, Orchard
merchant, gressman. He was a merchant by occupation, and for some years sheriff of Lincoln county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1811.
Cook, Philip
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born July 31, 1817, in Twiggs county, Ga. He was elected to the state senate in 1859, 1860 and 1863. He entered the confederate service in 1861 as a private, and rose to be brigadier-general. He was a member of the state convention of 1865, and was elected to the thirty-ninth congress, but not allowed to take his seat. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Cook, Richard Briscoe
clergyman, author, was born in 1838, in Maryland. He is a baptist clergyman of Wilmington, Del., and the author of The Story of the Baptists in All Ages and Countries.
Cook, Russell S
clergyman, was born March 16, 1811, in New Marlborough, Mass. He devoted himself to the service of the American Tract society; in 1839 was appointed one of its corresponding secretaries, and labored as such for eighteen years in New York city. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y.
Cook, Samuel A
soldier, farmer, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1849, in Ontario. He enlisted as a private in company A, second Wisconsin cavalry, served under General Custer, and was mustered out at the close of the war.
He engaged in manufacturing, and moved to Neenah, Wis., in 1881. He was elected mayor of Neenah in 1889, and a member of the state legislature in 1891-92. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Cook, Seth
miner, was born in 1830, in Byron, N. Y. He was among the first of the men to establish themselves on the Comstock ledge, and with his brother Daniel made a great deal of money in 1886 in the Crown Point deal. He obtained control of the Standard mine at Bodie, and finally returning to the Comstock ledge, became controlling owner of the Alta group of mines at the southern end of the lode. He also had mines on Maxwell creek and large interests in land, including a stock ranch in Contra Costa county.