Cotton, John – Covert, George
Cotton, John
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 4, 1585, in England. He was the foremost clergyman of his century in New England. He came to the Massachusetts colony in 1633, having been for twenty years vicar of St. Botolph's church in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was at once made teacher of the church in the new settlement of Boston, and until his death exercised an influence in church and state unequaled by any one since in New England. His principal works comprise The Bloody Tenet Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger Williams's famous Bloody Tenet of Persecution; A Brief Exposition upon Ecclesiastes; The Covenant of Grace; The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; The Way of the Congregational Churches Cleared; The Way of Life; Treatise Concerning Predestination; The New Covenant; and Meat for Strong Men, Spiritual Milk for Babes.
He died Dec. 23, 1652, in Boston, Mass.
Cotton, John
clergyman, was born March 13, 1640, in Boston, Mass. He was minister for thirty years in Plymouth, Mass., and afterward in Charleston, S. C.
He was eminent for his acquaintance with the Indian language, frequently preached to the aborigines at Martha's Vineyard and Plymouth, and revised and corrected the whole of Eliot's Indian Bible. He died Sept. 18, 1699, in Charleston, S. C.
Cottrell, Calvert Byron
manufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 21, 1821, in Westerly, R. I. He has devoted himself exclusively to invention and improvement in matters belonging to printing and press manufacture. One of his latest and most important inventions is a shifting tympan for a Web perfecting press.
Couch, Darius Nash
soldier, was born July 23, 1822, in South East, N. Y.
He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1846, and assigned to the fourth artillery, with which he served in the Mexican war, gaining the brevet of first lieutenant, in 1847, for gallant conduct at Buena Vista.
He served against the Seminoles in 1849-50, and in 1853, when on a leave of absence, made an exploring expedition into Mexico, which is mentioned in the United States senate reports.
Couchman, Wesley
clergyman, educator, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1853, in Margaretville, N. Y. In 1878 he graduated from the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn., and was the class poet. He had previously attended the Claverack academy, New York. Many years of his life have been devoted to educational work; and fifteen years as a mechanic.
He has attained eminence as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and has filled pastorates in New York and Pennsylvania. He has also given much of his time to literary work, and many of his poems have appeared in current literature and various standard works.
Coudert, Frederick Rene
lawyer, was born in 1832, in New York city.
He was elected president of the Bar Association of New York city, and represented the Chamber of Commerce at the international congress at Antwerp, for the framing of international rules of general He recently represented the average.
United States as one of its counsel before the international tribunal appointed to determine the Behring Sea controversy.
Coues, Elliott
naturalist, author, was born Sept. 9, 1842, in Portsmouth, N.
H. He is an eminent naturalist connected with the Smithsonian institution. He is the author of Key to North American Birds; Field Ornithology; Birds of the Northwest; Fur-Bearing Animals; Check List of North American Birds; Birds of the Colorado Valley; New England Bird Life (with W. A. Stearns); Biogen, a Speculation on the Origin of Life; The Dæmon of Darwin; and Our Native Birds.
Couldock, Charles Walter
actor, was born April 26, 1815, in England.
His first appearance in this country was at the Broadway theater. He subsequently supported Charlotte Cushman, and was successful as Jacques in As You Like It, and as Luke Fielding in The Willow Copse. His rendition of Dunstan Kirke in Hazel Kirke at the Madison Square theater was especially powerful.
Coulter, John Merle
botanist, author, was born Nov. 20, 1851, in China.
He is a botanist and was president of the Indiana State university in 1891-93. He is the author of Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with T. C. Porter); Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany; Manual of Texan Botany; and Text-Book of Western Botany. man.
Coulter, Richard
jurist, congress- He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1835. At the time of his death was judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He died April 21, 1852, in Westmoreland county, Pa.
Councill, William Hooper
educator, college president, was born July 12, 1848, in Fayetteville, N. C. He was brought to Alabama by the traders of 1857 through the famous Richmond slave pen.
In 1883 he was admitted to the bar, but has never left the profession of teaching for a day. He has occupied high positions in the church, temperance and charitable organizations. By earnest toil, self-denial and hard study he has built up the State Normal Industrial school of Alabama, of which he is president, and which is one of the largest institutions in the south. He is also the president of the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Alabama for Negroes.
Councilman, William Thomas
physician, author, was born in 1854, in Maryland. He is a physician and instructor at the Harvard Medical school, and the author of Contribution to the Study of Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; and On the Ætiology of Malaria; and other works.
Courtenay, Austin Matlack
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 22, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, in various private schools and academies, and graduated from the Virginia Theological seminary. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal churches in Maryland, Baltimore City, Pittsburg and Meadville, Pa. He has been a lecturer of Christian Evidences in the Allegheny college, and is a noted public lecturer and orator of unusual ability. He has received the degree of doctor of divinity from Dickinson college; and is the author of numerous articles which have appeared in current magazines and church papers.
Courtenay, Edward Henry
mathematician, author, was born in 1803 in Maryland. He was a civil engineer and was professor of mathematics in the university of Virginia from 1842-53. He published a Treatise on Differential Calculus and the Calculus of Variations. He died Dec. 21, 1853, in Charlottesville, Va. • COURTER, FRANKLIN C., artist, was born July 20, 1854, in Caldwell, N. J. In 1888 he was appointed professor of drawing and painting in Albion college, Albion, Mich. His best known ideal picture is his painting of Lincoln Showing Sojourner Truth the Bible Presented Him by the Colored People of Baltimore.
COURTNEY, THEODORE. He has attained prominence as one of the foremost men of Kansas, and has taken an active part in the political affairs of that state.
Courtright, Samuel W
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 9, 1842, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He is a prominent lawyer of Circleville, Ohio; was city solicitor for two terms; president of the board of education for five years; and prosecuting attorney of his county for two terms. He has filled various public positions of honor, and for five years was judge of the court of common pleas.
Cousins, James
agriculturist, legislator, was born March 3, 1849, in England. For many years he was engaged in the manufacture of brick; and since 1884 has been a farmer in Pittsford, Mich. He was a member of the Michigan house of representatives in 1895-96, and received the re-election in 1897-98.
Cousins, Robert G
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1859 in Cedar county, Iowa. In 1886 he was elected to the Iowa legislature, and was elected by the house of representatives as one of the prosecutors for the Brown impeachment, tried before the senate during 1887. In 1888 he was elected prosecuting attorney and also presidential elector for the fifth congressional district. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Coutler, John F
farmer, legislator, state senator, was born Nov. 15, 1840, in Cass county, Mich. In 1870 he was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature. He moved to Nebraska in 1874, and was there elected to the state senate in 1878. In 1882 he moved to Kansas, and was elected to the legislature of that state in 1884, and again in 1892.
Covell, Alton Giles
lawyer, legislator, financier, was born June 8, 1854, in Erie, Pa. He received an academic education and was admitted to the bar in 1880. In 1883 he moved to North Dakota, where he has, financially, large and extensive interests in wheat and stock farms, and in a general mercantile house. He served two terms as state's attorney for Wells county; and he has been prominently connected with the public affairs of his county and state; and has served one term as a member of the North Dakota state legislature. He is interested in numerous business enterprises, and has contributed extensively to various charitable institutions.
Covell, James
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1796, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a methodist clergyman of New York and Vermont who published a Dictionary of the Bible. He died May 15, 1845, in Troy, N. Y.
Covert, George
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 7, 1829, in Ovid, N. Y. He is a graduate of the Bennett College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Ill.; IN has been school superintendent, president of the State Medical society, president of the National Medical association, and professor of obstetrics in his alma mater. He is well known as a frequent contributor to medical literature, and is a successful physician and surgeon of Clinton, Wis.