Cornell, John M – Corson, Hiram
Cornell, John M
iron manufacturer, was born Aug. 27, 1846, in New York city. He was taken into partnership with J. B. and J. M. Cornell, and since 1887 has been sole proprietor of the works. Some of the most conspicuous buildings in New York city, erected since the era of gigantic structures began, about twenty years ago, have been supplied with the interior frame work, which supports all the rest, from the Cornell shops.
Cornell, Thomas
banker, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1814, in White Plains, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress in 1866; and in 1880 was elected to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Cornell, William Mason
physician, author, was born Oct. 16, 1802, in Berkley, Mass. He was a physician of Boston and elsewhere, and the author of Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools; Life of Horace Greeley; Grammar of the English Language; Consumption Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; and History of Pennsylvania. He died in 1895..
Cornell, William W
manufacturer, was born Jan. 1, 1823, on Long Island. He established an extensive business as an iron-founder in New York city, was a liberal giver to benevolent objects, especially for the erection of churches for the methodist denominations, and founded Cornell college at Mount Vernon, Iowa. He died March 17, 1870, in New York city.
Corning, Erastus
railroad president, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1794, in Norwich, Conn. In 1814 he moved to Albany, and continued in the hardware business, establishing the wellknown house, still in existence, of Erastus Corning and Co. His first public position was that of alderman of the city of Albany; from that he was promoted to mayor; and was also for several years an influential railroad, bank, and canal company president. For several terms he was a member of the state legislature; and was elected a representative to the thirtyfifth congress. In 1860 he was elected to the thirty-seventh congress; and reelected to the thirty-eighth congress. He died April 9, 1872, in Albany, N. Y.
Corning, Warren Halmes
was born Feb. 18, 1841, in Painesville, Ohio.
In 1887 he sold the Monarch Distilling Co., of Peoria, Ill., upon satisfactory terms to the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Co., and retired with well earned laurels from the company. Released from the exacting routine of daily attention to a large establishment, Mr. Corning then gave his attention to other things. He made large investments in various institutions, including the Standard Sewing Machine Co., the Wick Banking and Trust Co., the First National bank, and the Guardian Trust Co. of Cleveland.
Cornish, Johnston
manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born in Hunterdon county, N. J. He entered the Cornish Piano and Organ company as junior partner, and became the manager of that institution. He was elected mayor of Washington in 1884, when only twentyfive years old, and re-elected in 1886. He was elected state senator in 1890, and to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Cornwall, Henry Bedinger
mineralogist, author, was born July 29, 1844, in Southport, Conn. He is a professor of mineralogy at Princeton college since 1873, who has published A Manual of Blow-Pipe Analysis.
Cornwallis, Kinahan
journalist, author, was born Dec. 24, 1837, in London, England. He published in London fifteen novels of travel, history and poetry prior to coming to America. During 1860-66 he was editor and owner of the Knickerbocker Magazine, and also financial editor of the New York Herald during 1861-69.
He then became editor and proprietor of The Albion, and in 1886 established The Daily Investigator of New York city, of which he is still editor and proprietor.
In 1892 he published a volume of poems, and in 1893 The Conquest of Mexico and Peru. His other works are Yarra Yarra, or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical Narrative; The New Eldorado of British Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society; My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance; Pilgrims of Fashion; and The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange.
Cornwell, George Rathbun
bookseller, legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1836, in Penn Yan, N. Y., where for over forty years he was successfully engaged in business. During 1872-97 he was trustee of the Union school; and in 1891- 94 president of the board of education.
During 1882-84 he was chairman of the Yates republican committee; national delegate to the republican convention of 1884; member of the New York assembly in 1887-88; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1894; and in 1884, 1886, and 1888 was a candidate for congress from Yates county.
Cornwell, Henry Sylvester
physician, author, poet, was born in 1831 in New Hampshire. He was a physician of New London, Conn., who wrote much thoughtful verse. He was the author of The Land of Dreams and Other Poems (1879), which is the only collection that has been made of his poems. He died in 1896.
Cornwell, William Caryl
banker, was born Aug. 19, 1851, in Lyons, N. Y.
He organized the City bank of Buffalo in 1893, and was made president of the institution.
Corr, Albert C
physician, was born Feb. 10, 1840, in Carlinville, Ill. In 1868 he graduated in medicine from the Northwestern university of Chicago. For seventeen years he practiced general medicine; and since 1886 has restricted his practice to diseases of the eye, ear and throat. He is a member of the leading medical societies, and president of Illinois State Medical society. He has contributed papers to the deliberations of many medical and scientific bodies.
Corr, Lucinda H
physician, was born March 9, 1844, in Carlinville, Ill.
She graduated in 1874 from the Woman's medical department of the Northwestern university of Chicago. After five years' general practice she restricted her practice to diseases of women and girls. She is the wife of Dr. Albert C. Corr, and a pioneer in the state of Illinois.
Corrick, Frank Perley
journalist, was born July 17, 1866, in Appanoose county, Iowa. He is the editor and owner of The Tribune of Cozad, Neb. He has filled several public positions; and has been lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Nebraska division of the Sons of Veterans.
Corrigan, Michael Augustine
Roman catholic prelate, was born Aug. 13, 1839, in Newark, N. J. In 1885 Archbishop Corrigan became metropolitan of the diocese of New York.
Corrigan, Thomas
capitalist, was born Dec. 31, 1825, in Canada. He was owner of all the street railways, except one, in Kansas City; but in 1883 he sold his entire railway system to the Metropolitan Street Railway company. He died March 1, 1894, in Kansas City, Mo.
Corse, John Murray
soldier, was born April 27, 1835, in Pittsburg, Pa. He attended West Point and served through the civil war. He was colonel of the sixth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry, and distinguished himself at Chickamauga. In 1863 he was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers. In 1864 he defended Altoona with success against a superior force of confederates, and commanded a division of Sherman's army in its march to Georgia and the Carolinas. In 1864 he received the brevet of major-general. In 1867-69 he was collector of internal revenue in Chicago, Ill.; and subsequently built several hundred miles of railroad in the neighborhood of Chicago. In 1886 he was appointed postmaster of Boston, Mass. He died April 27, 1893.
Corse, Montgomery Dent
soldier, banker, was born March 14, 1816, in Alexandria, D. C. He was a captain in the Mexican war, and lived in California from 1849 till 1856, when he returned to Virginia and became a banker in Alexandria. He entered the confederate service in 1861 as colonel; and was commissioned a brigadier-general in 1862. After the war he resumed the business of a banker and broker at Alexandria till 1874.
Corson, George Norman
soldier, lawyer, lecturer, journalist, poet, was born March 11, 1833, in Montgomery county, Pa. He received his education at the Freemont seminary of Norristown, and the Ursinus college of Collegeville.
During the war he enlisted as a private soldier under the first call issued by Abraham Lincoln in April, 1861, till term of enlistment expired. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in his profession at Norristown, Pa. He has been a member of the city council; register in bankruptcy for Lehigh and Montgomery counties; and a member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania of 1872 and 1873. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and is the author of many lectures and poems; and wrote the poem for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Montgomery county in 1884. For two years he edited the Norristown Independent.
Corson, Hiram
educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Chaucerian and Early English scholar, professor at Cornell university since 1870, and the author of The Voice and Spiritual Education; Elocutionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of Browning; Lectures on English Language and Literature; The Aims of Literary Study; Vocal Culture in Relation to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early English; and Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. He has also edited Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women.