Corson, Juliet – Cotton, Aylett R
Corson, Juliet
instructor, author, was born Feb. 14, 1842, in Boston, Mass.
She was a cooking instructor of New York, founder of the School of Cooking there in 1876; and was the author of Cooking Manual; Cooking School Text- Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six; Meals for the Million; Practical American Cookery; Family Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; and Diet for Invalids and Children. She died in 1897.
Cort, Thomas
manufacturer, was born in 1834 in England. He settled in Newark in 1847, and began business for himself in the manufacture of high grade walking and lawn tennis shoes, being among the first engaged in this specialty in America.
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Corthell, Elmer Lawrence
civil engineer, author, was born Sept. 30, 1840, in Massachusetts. He is a civil engineer of distinction, and the author of History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi.
Corwin, Edward T
clergyman, author, was born July 12, 1834, in New York city. Since 1857 he has filled pastorates in various cities in the Reformed church, and is the official historian of the Reformed Church in America. He is the author of several works, and since 1897 has been engaged in historical researches at Amsterdam, Holland. His works are:
Manual of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America; Manual of the Reformed Church in America; and Corwin Genealogy.
Corwin, Franklin
lawyer, congressman, was born July 12, 1818, in Lebanon, Ohio. He served several years in the state legislature of Ohio, and part of the time in the senate. He moved to Illinois in 1857; and was elected to the legislature of that state, serving two years as speaker. He was elected to the fortythird congress as a republican.
Corwin, Moses B
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1790, in Bourbon county, Ky. In 1838 and 1839 he was elected to the legislature; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1849 to 1851, and from 1853 to 1855. He died April 7, 1872, in Urbana, Ohio.
Corwin, Thomas
lawyer, statesman, was born July 29, 1794, in Bourbon county, Ky. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1822, and a representative to congress from the Warren district in 1831, in which position he continued until 1840.
He was chosen governor of Ohio in October of that year. In 1845 he was elected United States senator, which office he held until his appointment in the cabinet, in 1850, as secretary of the treasury, under President Fillmore. He died Dec. 18, 1865, in Washington, D. C.
Corwine, Amos Breckinridge
journalist, was born in 1815 in Maysville, Ky. He served during the Mexican war, being a lieutenant in the Mississippi regiment commanded by Jefferson Davis, and was severely wounded at Buena Vista.
After that war, in partnership with his brother Samuel, he edited the Cincinnati Chronicle. During the administrations of Presidents Tyler and Fillmore he was United States consul at Panama. In 1856 he was sent by President Pierce to investigate the Panama massacres, and on his report were based the treaty and adjustment of damages between the United States and New Granada. He was reappointed consul, and remained in Panama until 1861. He died June 22, 1880, in New Rochelle, Ohio.
Cory, Sally Morris
artist, designer, was born Feb. 21, 1863, in New York city. She has attained success as an artist and designer; is the illustrator for the Armstrong Press Syndicate of New York city; and holds an art medal for book-cover designing.
Cosand, Samuel W
soldier, lawyer, was born June 27, 1843, in Boone county, Ind. In 1860 he graduated from the Thorntown academy with the degree of B. S. He served as a union soldier during the civil war in Company B, seventysecond regiment Indiana volunteer infàntry. He is a prominent lawyer of Gettysburg, S. D., and has served as state's attorney of Potter county.
Cosby, Fortunatus
journalist, journalist, poet, was born May 2, 1801, in Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the first school board of trustees, and later superintendent of public schools in Philadelphia. In 1846 he edited the Examiner, the first Kentucky paper devoted to the cause of negro emancipation. His best known poems are Ode to the Mocking Bird; The Traveler in the Desert; A Dream of Long Ago; and Fireside Fancies.
Cosby, William
governor of New York, was born about 1695. After serving as a colonel in the army, and being governor of Minorca and of the Leeward islands, he became governor of New York in 1731, and held the office till his death.
He died March 10, 1736, in New York city.
Cosgrove, Henry
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1834 in Williamsport, Pa. He removed with his parents to Dubuque when eleven years old. He was ordained in 1857, and appointed assistant pastor of St. Mary's, Davenport. He became pastor of Davenport, Iowa, in 1862, and shortly afterward erected church and school.
He was appointed vicar-general of the diocese in 1882. On a the death of Bishop McMullen he was selected as administrator; and in 1884 was proposed to the holy see as his successor in the bishopric of Davenport. He is the first native of the United States that has been appointed bishop west of the Mississippi.
Cosgrove, John
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1839, in Alexandria, N. Y. In 1865 he removed to Boonville, Mo., and engaged in the practice of his profession. He was twice elected city attorney; and in 1872 was elected prosecuting attorney of Cooper county.
He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1872 and 1880; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Cossett, Franceway Ranna
clergyman, author, was born April 24, 1790, in Claremont, N. H. He was a Cumberland presbyterian clergyman of Tennessee. He published The Life and Times of Ewing, which gives a history of the beginnings of the Cumberland presbyterian denomination. He died July 3, 1863, in Lebanon, Tenn.
Coster, Charles Henry
banker, was born July 22, 1852, in Newport, R. I.
In 1884 he was admitted to partnership in the great banking house of Drexel, Morgan and Co. of New York city; Drexel and Co. of Philadelphia, and Drexel, Harjes and Co. of Paris, resident in New York.
Coster, Robert John
educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 20, 1836, near St.
Leonards, Md. He was educated at the College of St. James, and received the degree of B. A. in 1862; and the degree of M.
A. from Trinity college in 1868. He was ordained a deacon in 1863, and a priest in 1866. For over quarter of a century he has been rector of the Bishop Bowman institute of Pittsburg, Pa., and a rector of the Grace church almost the same time. He has also devoted his time to educational work. He has been a member of the standing committee of the diocese of Pittsburgh for twenty years, and president of the same for four years.
He has traveled extensively in Europe; and is the author of a memorial sermon on the Life of the Rev. Thomas Crumpton, D. D.; and is now publishing a History of Grace Church of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cotheal, Alexander Isaac
diplomatist, was born in 1804 in New York, N. Y. He was an oriental scholar of New York city who published Sketch of the Language of the Mosquito Indians; and Atoff the Generous, a translation from the Arabic. He died in 1894.
Cothran, James S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1830, in Abbeville county, S. C. He entered the confederate service as a private soldier; and was at the surrender of the army of northern Virginia at Appomattox, having attained to the rank of captain. He was appointed to fill the judgeship of the circuit to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Judge Thomson in 1881; and was elected by the legislature to the same office the following winter, and reelected in 1885. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Cotteral, J. L. T
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1846 to 1847.
Cotting, John Ruggles
scientist, author, was born in 1783 in Acton, Mass.
He was a noted Georgia scientist, and the author of Introduction to Chemistry; Lectures on Geology; and Soils and Manures. He died in 1867.
Cottman, Joseph S
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1803, in Somerset county, Md. He served in the Maryland legislature; was a presidential elector in 1849, and was a member of congress from 1851 to 1853. He died in 1863 in Somerset county, Md.
Cottman, Vincendon Lezare
naval officer, was born Feb. 13, 1852, in Ascension Parish, La. In 1884 he was appointed lieutenant of the United States navy, and in 1889 was secretary of the international marine conference at Washington, D. C.
Cotton, Aylett R
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1826, in Austintown, Ohio. He removed to Iowa in 1844, and crossed the plains to California in 1849, and returned to Iowa in 1851. He was appointed judge of Clinton county in 1851, and was prosecuting attorney of the same county in 1854. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1857, and was a member of the state legislature in 1868 and 1870, serving as speaker. He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.