HUNT .\IIIKS. A.MKUCAN. 





promoted 1st liriitriiuiit Mat 14, ami euptuii 



I ; major of tin- 17th lntaiilr\, April ^7, 

 lieutenant colonel of the -J-_'d liifaiitrx, .June 

 1; ainl .!. uii-1 of tin- :Mst Infantry Kek -J4, 

 In tin- volunteer service In- held the runk 

 ot' lieutenant coli.nel anil aide li- -rump from May .'., 

 ill Jim. :M, L-si',4. H'- was orcvctted major tor 

 gallantry in the Wilderness, and liriitrmmt -colonel 

 for tin- l.aillr of North Ainiu river, both .luting from 

 Aug. 1, l s '''l, and colonel tor tin- campaign under 

 <i>-n. HanooOK, March i:t, IM;.">. In Ma\ ami Jiim-, 

 I-M; 1. IK- wasassistant u.ljutimt L'ciicral of tin- 1st bri- 

 gade, 1st <li\ ision. .Mli Anm Corps; from June to Au- 

 giist following svas acting jud^e alvoi-ati- of the 2d 

 Arm\ Corps;aml from Feb. -J, 17 1, till < M. 12, 1874, 

 Dior assistant instructor in infantry Uu-tics ut 

 tin- t'niti-il Stale-* Militan Academy. 



Cooke, John R., military/ officer, born in Jefferson 

 I'.arracks, Mo., in 1833 j died in Richmond, Va., April 

 9,1891. He was a son of (Jen. I'liilip St. (leorge Cooke, 

 \.. and entered tin- army as i'd lieutenant intlie 

 Mb I'niti-d States Infantry 'in 1855. On Jan. 28, 

 IM'.I. In- was promoted 1st lieutenant, and on May 30 

 rcsi^m-d his commission to enter the Confederate 

 army, though his father remained loyal to the Union 

 and l>fi-ame u distinguished general. John K. Cooke 

 soon attained the rank of brigadier in the Confeder- 

 ate army, and made himselt conspicuous by a dash 

 that approximated recklessness. At Spottsylvania 

 Court house la- was severely wounded, but would al- 

 low m> one to take OOmouUM of his hriifade. 



Cooper, George Henry, naval officer, born in Fort Dia- 

 mond, N. V., Julv -^7, 1>:M ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Nov. 17, is'.tl. lie was appointed a midshipman in 

 the I'nitcd Statis navy Aug. 4, 1837 ; was promoted 

 past midslii].man June 29, 1843; master, Oct. 11,1850; 

 lieutenant, May 8, 1851 ; commander, July 16, 1862; 

 captain, Dec. 2, 1867; commodore, June 5. 1874; 

 rear-admirul, Nov. 15, 1881 ; and was retired July 27, 

 1884. He was on sea service twenty-live years four 

 months, on shore or other duty eighteen years three 

 months, and was unemployed eleven years three 

 months. He served in co-operation with the army 

 in the Seminole Indian War in Florida; led an 

 assault against Point Isabel, was captured at Mon- 

 terey, and, after exchange, was present in the at- 

 tack's on Tobasco, Alvarado, and Tuxpan in the Mex- 

 ican War; in the civil war commanded several ves- 

 sel^, and for seven weeks was on the monitor "San- 

 gamon " inside Charleston Roads, constantly shelling 

 Fort Sumter and Sullivan's Island ; and commanded 

 the North Atlantic Squadron from May, 1882, till his 

 retirement. 



Corrado, Nestori, painter, born in Urbino, Italy, in 

 1810; diet I in New York city, April 19, 1891. He was 

 educated for the operatic stage, and came to the 

 United States with an Italian opera company in 1831. 

 His tine voice, heard to the best advantage in basso- 

 prof undo parts, gave him and the company wide pop- 

 ularity. From the United States he traveled to South 

 America, where, after a while, the company was dis- 

 banded. He remained in Chili some time, support- 

 ing himself by miniature painting. In 1848 he went 

 to California and accumulated a considerate tortune 

 in mining operations. Reaching Now York city with 

 the intention of returning to Italy, he became ac- 

 quainted with the widow of Signor Berti, a noted 

 sinifiiiLf master, and after a brief courtship married 

 her and established himself as a miniature painter. 

 The Lfn-ater part of his miniature work was done for 

 Tithmy A: Co., but he frequently undertook special 

 contracts, such as that under which he did all the 

 miniature paintinir'm the Union Square Theatre after 

 the recent tire. 11<- was one of the founders of the 

 Italian Benevolent Society, the Italian Emigration 

 Society, and La Societie di Unios Efratellan/.a, and. 

 although one of the most liberal Italians in the coun- 

 try, died in poverty. 



Orawford, George Addison, pioneer, horn in Pine 

 Creek, l.yeominir i now Clinton) County, Pa., July 

 27, 18i'7 : died in (irand Junction, Col., J"an. 26, 1891. 



He wa graduated ut .l.-tl. r-on College in 1847; pnt 



ii teaching in Sab-Hi, Ky. ; returm-d I,. 

 be^iitt studying luw in IMi; ulid be.-aine i .!. 

 proprietor of a DemiK-ratic newcpajx-r in 1 s.Vi. In 

 K'd he was active in the HUpjH.rt ol Willium Hi^b-r, 

 DemK-ratic candidate for (Jovi-rnor of !' i,n-\ h ai/ni ; 

 in I 1 -;,:, V,7 || ( . was a clerk in the oilier of tl . 

 muster L" m-ral in Washington; in l-:.4 '."'/ he took 

 the stump in op|,-iti.,n to the Know-nothing move- 

 ment. In the spring of ls.',7 ),,. mude a trip to Kan- 

 sus, where he iiecame a founder 't, and 



was president for nearly twenty years of tl,. 

 pany that laid out the 'town. 'Politically he allied 

 himself with the Five. State party, und 'during the 

 stormy period of 18. r >7-'00 he opposed the pro-slavery 

 party with such vi^or und ellecti \eiu-sH that his life 

 was in daily peril. He was one of tin- party t' 

 posed the celebrated candb-lxix election fraud. At 

 the beginning of the civil war he promoted the or- 

 gani/ation of the 2d Kansas Volunteers for the na- 

 tional army, and later, by organizini. the militia of 

 tin- southern counties, saved that part of the State to 

 the Union. In 1861 he was elected (iovernor, under 

 a misconstruction as to the time for holding tin- first 

 State election under the Constitution, and the Su- 

 preme Court declared the election illegal. In 1868 

 ne established the " Daily Monitor " and a free read- 

 ing-room and museum in Fort Scott; in 1871 he was 

 appointed an alternate United States centennial com- 

 niissioner, and, besides attending nearly every meet- 

 ing of the commission during 187l-'76, was a member 

 of several committees. In May, 1876, he removed to 

 Mesa County, Col., where he located and na/ned the 

 town of Grand Junction, superintended its develop- 

 ment, and established numerous industries. 



Oreswell. John Angell James, lawyer, born in Port 

 Deposit, Md., Nov. 18, 1828; died in Elkton, Md., 

 Dec. -_':5, 1891. He was graduated at Dickinson Col- 

 lege, Carlisle, Pa., in 1848, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1850. After the dissolution of the Whig 

 * party he worked and voted with the Democrats tifi 

 the "beginning of the civil war, when he became a 

 Repubfican. In 1861 he was elected to the Legisla- 

 ture, in 1862 was appointed adjutant-general of the 

 State, in 1863 was elected to Congress, and in 1864 

 was elected United States Senator to fill the unexpired 

 term of Thomas II. Hicks. On Feb. _'_>, 1866, by joint 

 request of Congress, he delivered a eulogy on the life 

 of Henry Winter Davis. He was a delegate to the 

 Baltimore Convention in 1864, the Loyalists' Con- 

 vention in Philadelphia in 1866, the Border states 

 Convention in Baltimore in 1867, and to the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention in 1868. He wa- 

 master-generul from March 5, 1869, till July 3. 1-74; 

 counsel for the United States before the Court or 

 Commissioners of Alabama Claims ; and was one of 

 the commissioners for winding up the affaire of the 

 Freedmens' Saving and Trust Company. 



Oroasdale, William T., journalist, bom in Mill Creek 

 Hundred, Newcastle County. Del., March L'7, 1844; 

 died in Merriewold Park, 'Sullivan County. N. V.. 

 Aug. 9, 1891. He was of Quaker parentage, and 

 was educated at the Friends' Academy. Wilmington, 

 Del. After leaving the academy h"e ensured in 

 newspaper work in Wilmington. At the time of the 

 second Maryland invasion, he enlisted in the 7th 

 Delaware Volunteers, in which he served till the regi- 

 ment was discharged. He then became editor of a 

 Republican newspaper in Sussex County, in which 

 he advocated the re-election of President Lincoln. 

 Returninir to \\ ilmington, he was appointed city edi- 

 tor of the "Commercial," and suosequcntly estab- 

 lished " Every Evening." afterward consolidated with 

 the "Commercial." In 1 _' he established the 

 " Day," in Baltimore; in 1886 became chief editorial 

 writer on the New York "Star"; in 17 on the es- 

 tablishment of the "Standard" by Henry ('< 

 became its managing editor. In 1890 he was an un- 

 successful candidate <>f the county Democracy tor 

 ( 'onirrcss. His writings were mainly on political and 

 economic subject*. 



