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nals, a little monthly paper in which he predicted 

 weather conditions in all parts of the world, dis- 

 asters on land and sea, the sweep of plagues, and 

 the annihilation of nations. He also gave advice 

 as to the best time to grow turnips and other 

 farm produce, and the best time of the month to 

 fish, and illustrated the " high or low tide of the 

 vital forces " by a chart for each day of the 

 month. This paper had a large sale among farm- 

 ers. He also did a considerable business in the 

 casting of horoscopes. 



Cook, Joseph, author and lecturer, born in 

 Ticonderoga, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1838; died there, June 

 24, 1901. He was the son of a farmer, and was 

 graduated at Phillips Academy in 1857, and in 

 1858 he entered Yale; but as his health became 

 impaired he was forced to leave college early in 

 1861. In 1863 he entered the junior class at Har- 

 vard, where he was graduated with honors in 

 1865, and three years later was graduated at 

 Andover Theological Seminary, remaining one 

 year longer there to study advanced religious and 

 philosophical thought. He preached in Andover 

 during 1868-70, and was acting pastor in Lynn, 

 Mass., in 1870-'71. In 1871 he went to Europe 

 and studied at Halle, Leipsic, Berlin, and Heidel- 

 berg, and afterward traveled in Italy, Egypt, 

 Greece, Turkey, and northern Africa. He re- 

 turned to the United States near the end of 1873, 

 taking up his residence in Boston. His name 

 became familiar to the public in 1875, When as 

 pastor of a Congregational church in Boston he 

 was invited by the Young Men's Christian Asso- 

 ciation of that city to speak at their Monday 

 noonday meeting. His audiences grew larger, 

 and the lectures finally taxed the full capacity of 

 Tremont Temple. The lectures were given under 

 the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 

 ciation till May, 1876, when the Boston Monday 

 lectureship was founded, and the management 

 placed in the hands of a committee representing 

 several evangelical denominations. The object of 

 these lectures was to present the results of the 

 freshest scholarship on the more important and 

 difficult topics concerning the alleged conflict of 

 religion and science. The lectures were every 

 week printed at full length in the newspapers and 

 were read by 250,000 persons in the United States 

 and Canada, besides those in Europe. In 1876 

 Mr. Cook's lectures and " preludes " first appeared 

 in book form, and in two years they ran through 

 more than 30 editions. In 1878 he delivered 150 

 lectures, 30 of which were new. During the season 

 of 1878-79, in addition to the Boston Monday lec- 

 tureship, he conducted a New York Thursday 

 -afternoon lectureship, and spoke on many outside 

 occasions, choosing for these outside lectures the 

 following subjects: Does Death End All? Seven 

 Modern Wonders; Ultimate America; Certainties 

 in Religion; England and America as Competitors 

 and Allies; Political Signs of the Times; Alcohol 

 and the Human Brain; Law and Labor, Property 

 and Poverty; God in Natural Law; Religious 

 Signs of the Times; What saves Men. and Why? 

 and A Night on the Acropolis. In 1880 he began a 

 lecturing tour around the world, on which he was 

 received everywhere by immense audiences. He 

 made 135 public appearances in Great Britain, 

 passed several months in Germany and Italy, and 

 went to India by way of Greece, Palestine, and 

 Egypt- From India his tour extended to China, 

 Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. In 

 Japan he gave 12 lectures 6 in English and 6 

 through an interpreter to audiences composed 

 chiefly of Japanese students, teachers, and public 

 men. He returned to the United States in 1882. 

 He made a lecturing tour in Australia in 1895, 

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and in 1900 resumed the lio-lon Monday l.rtun 

 Jn 1888 he founded Our l);i\. . rimnthiv )..,,,, 

 and review. He published Boston 

 tures (11 vols., 1K7(-'8S) ; (junvin ' 

 Perils; Professor Park <ind hi>, \'\\ } , 

 morial pamphlet, 1899); The lli^ir-i 1,1, 

 Arbitration (1900); and New DeiVn-. 

 Lord's Day (1900). 



Coston, William Franklin, sirn:il-r,, 

 born in Washington, D. C., May 20, )S4.~>; <lir<i in 

 New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 17, 

 1901. He was graduated at Georgetown College, 

 Washington, D. C., in 1806, and afterward studied 

 abroad. He traveled extensively, and was in 

 France and Germany during the Franco-Prussian 

 War. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Cos- 

 ton, who invented the signals bearing his name 

 (see Annual Cyclopaedia for 1897, page 790), and 

 improved and perfected his father's invention. 

 He furnished all the signals used by the United 

 States Government and many other governments. 



Cox, Charles Hudson, artist, born in Liver- 

 pool, England, Jan. 28, 1829; died in Boulder, 

 Colo., Aug. 7, 1901. He received his education at 

 Kendal Grammar School, Westmoreland, and at 

 Liverpool Institute; and from 1842 to 1888 he was 

 a cotton-broker in Liverpool. In the latter year 

 he removed to the United States, making his home 

 in Waco, Texas, where he continued in the cotton 

 export business till his death. He was said to 

 have been the oldest cotton man, in point of con- 

 tinuous service, in the world. Mr. Cox began 

 his artistic career in Liverpool, where from 1870 

 till his departure in 1888 he was known as its 

 best amateur water-color artist. He was widely 

 known as a landscape artist in America, and as a 

 member of the Waco Art League won many 

 medals and premiums for water-colors at Waco, 

 Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. His picture 

 The Golden Hour won a premium at the Colum 

 bian Exposition in 1893. He was teacher of out- 

 door sketching at the Texas-Colorado Chau- 

 tauqua, Boulder, Colo., during the summers from 

 1898 to 1901. He was Texas correspondent of the 

 London Daily and Weekly Graphic from 1890 to 

 1901. His chief works are marines and views of 

 the River Mersey, and Texas prairie and wild- 

 flower, and Colorado mountain scenery. Among 

 the best are A Texas Prairie, A Thousand Miles 

 from Home, and The Golden Hour all exhibited 

 at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893; The Highest 

 Pine (Colorado); Williams Canon, Colorado; A 

 Great Rock in a Weary Land (Colorado) ; The 

 Garden of the Lord (Colorado) ; View from Mount 

 Arapahoe (Colorado); Buffalo Clover (Texas); 

 An Unwritten Story of the Plains (Colorado) ; 

 and a series of paintings illustrating Longfellow's 

 Evangeline, presented to the Waco High School. 



Crane, Niram Merriam, banker and soldier, 

 born in Penn Yan, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1828; died in 

 Wayne, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1901. He was a private 

 banker in Hornellsville, N. Y., at the outbreak of 

 the civil war, and in April, 1861, he closed his 

 bank to raise a company for the 23d New York 

 Volunteers. He participated in the battles of 

 Rappahannock, Groveton, Chantilly, South Moun- 

 tain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and served 

 on the staffs of Gens. Reynolds and Hooker. He 

 was chosen colonel of the 107th New York Regi- 

 ment and joined it at Leesburg, Va., while it was 

 on its march to Gettysburg. He displayed great 

 gallantry in the battle of Gettysburg, and after- 

 ward under Gen. Hooker joined Gen. Sherman at 

 Chattanooga and participated in the march to 

 the sea. He was brevetted, March 13, 1865, 

 brigadier-general of volunteers for gallantry dur- 

 ing the campaign in South Carolina. At the close 



