Copeland, Joseph T – Corcoran, Michael
Copeland, Joseph T
soldier, was born in 1830 in Michigan. He served through the civil war and was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers.
Copeland, Patrick
pioneer, educator. He was employed as a chaplain in the service of the East India company.
He first suggested the idea of a college in America, and may be justly considered as the pioneer of education.
Copley, John Singleton
artist, was born July 3, 1737, in Boston, Mass.
He is said to have been the only native painter of real skill which the New World could boast before the Revolution, and to possess one of his portraits is America's best title to nobility. The Death of Lord Chatham is his masterpiece. He died Sept. 9, 1815, in London, England.
Copley, Lionel
colonial governor, was born probably in England. After the province of Maryland had been delivered over to the crown by the protestant associators, he was in 1691 commissioned its first royal governor. He died Sept. 12, 1693.
Copp, Mrs. Helen Ranklin
sculptor, was born Aug. 4, 1853, in Atlanta, Ill.
She studied at the art institute of Chicago, Ill., and received the only medal ever given by that institution for sculpture. She has modeled portraits of a number of prominent citizens of Chicago, besides many ideal works.
Coppee, Henry
soldier, educator, college president, author, was born Oct. 13, 1821, in Savannah, Ga. He was a prominent educator, president of Lehigh university, 1866-75, and professor there until his death. During the Mexican war he served as an officer in the American army. His most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached at the close of Irving's Mahomet and his Successors.
His other works comprise Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; and Manual of Court Martial. He died in 1895.
Coppin, Levi J
journalist, author, was born Dec. 24, 1848, in Cecil county, Md. He is the manager of the A. M. E.
Church Review, and the author of The Relations of Baptized Children to the Church.
Coppinger, John J
soldier, was born in 1835 in Ireland. He joined the papal guards to fight against Victor Emmanuel. He came to America with letters from Archbishop Hughes, and in 1861 was made captain in the fourteenth infantry. At the close of the war he was colonel of the fifteenth New York cavalry.
He made a brilliant record and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel at Trevillians, Va. After the war he was transferred to the twenty-third United States infantry, and was brevetted colonel in battles with the Indians in 1866, 1867 and 1868. He was commissioned major-general in 1898.
Copway, George
author, poet, was born in August, 1820, in Michigan. He is an Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a journalist in New York city, and was well known as a lecturer. He was the author of Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway's American Indian; The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The Ojibway Conquest, a poem; and Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe.
Coray, George Q
educator, librarian, was born in November, 1857, in Provo, Utah. He is a graduate of Cornell and librarian of the university of Utah.
Corbett, Henry Winslow
merchant, was born Feb. 18, 1827, in Westborough, Mass. While successful as a merchant he has not confined his enterprise to that field, but has also engaged in steam transportation, and was at one time mail contractor between Oregon and California overland, stocking the road in 1866 with Concord coaches for 740 miles. His contract with the government amounted to $179,000 per year. As he gained the means he then became a large buyer of choice real estate in Portland, and has recently built a number of business blocks. He is now one of the largest owners of improved property in the city, and pays taxes on about $850,000 worth of realty. He served during 1867-73 in the United States senate as a union republican.
Corbin, Austin
railroad president, financier, was born July 11, 1827, in Newport, N. H. He is now president of the Long Island railroad, the Elmira, Cortland and Northern railroad, the Manhattan Beach company, the Manhattan Beach Hotel and Land company, and the New York and Rockaway Beach railway.
Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Eliza- Beth
author, was born in 1835 in Connecticut. She is a Chicago writer of fiction and other works, and the author of Rebecca; His Marriage Vow; Belle and the Boys; and A Woman's Philosophy of Love, a psychological treatise.
Corbin, D. C
railroad president, was born in 1837 in New Hampshire. He is president of the Spokane Falls and Northern railway; and also of the Nelson and Fort Sheppard railway.
Corbin, Henry Clark
soldier, was born in Ohio. He was the adjutant at the inaugurations of Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley. He headed the remarkable procession of the centennial at New York in 1889 and has been the marshal in other great affairs of that kind. He entered the army as a volunteer. After the civil war he passed a satisfactory examination and was accepted as an officer in the regular army. He has always, since the time of Lincoln, been very near the person of the president.
He is adjutant to President McKinley in the president's capacity as commander-inchief of the army.
Corbin, Horace
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born May 21, 1827, in Tioga county, Ind. In 1852 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and in 1862 he was chosen to the state senate, where he served four sessions.
In 1873, when Plymouth first became a city, he was elected its mayor. In 1875 he was tendered by Governor Hendricks the appointment of judge of the circuit court, which he accepted, filling the office with credit to himself and the satisfaction of the district, until the fall of 1876, when he was named by the democratic party for the same position.
Corbin, John
author, was born in 1870 in Illinois. He is the author of The Elizabethan Hamlet.
Corbin, Joseph Carter
educator, college president, was born March 26, 1833, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He graduated in 1853 from the Ohio university. He has been state superintendent of education of Arkansas and for the past twenty years president of the Branch Normal college of Pine Bluff, Ark. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, of which he has been grand secretary.
Corbusier, William Henry
surgeon, ethnologist, was born April 10, 1844, in New York city. He graduated in medicine from the Bellevue hospital and medical college of New York city. During the civil war he served in the field as acting assistant surgeon. He is now surgeon in the United States army, stationed at Fort Monroe, Va. While doing duty on the frontier he wrote vocabularies of the Mojave and Yavapai dialects of the Yuma language; discovered several winter counts, counts back, or calendars among the Dakotas; and studied the symbols, pictographs and sign language of the North American Indians.
Corby, William
educator, college president, was born Oct. 2, 1833, in Detroit, Mich. As chaplain of a New York cavalry regiment he left for the army of the Potomac. He was through Mc- Clellan's campaign on the peninsula, and was afterwards commanded by Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant. In 1866 he was made president and local superior at Notre Dame. In 1872 he was appointed the pastor at Watertown, Wis., holding this place until 1877, when he was chosen president of Notre Dame for a second time.
Corcoran, John William
lawyer, jurist, public official, was born June 14, 1853, in Batavia, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the Clinton public schools; attended the College of the Holy Cross of Worcester, Mass.; the St. John's university, and the Boston university. He has large law business in Boston, Mass., and resides in Clinton. a He has been judge of the superior court; judge advocate general; was chairman of the democratic state committee four times; and was twice the chairman of the state delegation to the national convention. For twenty-two years he has been a member of the Clinton school committee, serving fifteen years as chairman. He was city solicitor of Clinton for ten years; water commissioner, secretary, treasurer and chairman for fifteen years; was chairman of the Massachusetts board of managers at the World's Columbian exposition; and has filled numerous positions of honor in his city, county and state.
Corcoran, Michael
soldier, was born Sept. 21, 1827, in Ireland. During the civil war he served with distinction; organized the Corcoran legion, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Dec. 23, 1863, near Sawyer's Station, Va.