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philanthropic work to all classes of people; won 



in tin- House of Refuge, Home for 



--. ( 'oiivalcscciit Home, Woman's Cliris- 



: .mpcrancc 1 nion, and kindred institution^ ; 



ninl in reeeiit years had been particularly active in 



promoting the various enterprises of the New York 



HiMi! and Tract. Mis.Mon, such UN it* cotlcc house, 



lo.lirinir house, mission chapel, and broom factory. 



.she continued preaching in the meetings of tlic bo- 



eicty till hor final illness. 



Oolvis, Joseph, physician, l>orn in New Orleans, La., 

 in ivji; died in 1'uris, Franco, Aug. 20, iS'.rj. llu 

 >rn of Creole parents, was taken to Franco 

 iirht years old, and was educated at the I.NCCC, 

 Bonaparte, subsequently studying nicdicino and re- 

 ociviiig his diploma with the degrees of B. A. and B. 

 S. lie acquired a lar^e and lucrutive practice, and 

 1 several decorations from the French Gov- 

 ernment for special professional services, and for hia 

 aid during the Franco-Prussian War he was awarded 

 the Cross of the Legion of Honor. 



Comins, Linos B., merchant, born in Charlton, Mass., 



!9j 1817 ; died in Jamaica Plain, .Mass., Oct. 14, 



Me was graduated at the Worcester County 



Manual-labor Hi;rh School, and was engaged in 



manufacturing ana mercantile business through life. 



In IM'i lie. \voselectedtothc Roxbury city council; in 



1847-'48 was president of the council, and in 1854 



was mayor. While holding the latter office he was 



elected to Congress, where he served in 1855-'58, being 



n member of the Committee on Commerce. During 



vice in Congress he was mainly instrumental 



in securing the appropriation for the erection of the 



Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, and he delivered the ad- 



i the laying of its corner stone. He was a 



delegate to the National Republican Convention in 



1860. His interest in and benefaction to a school in 



Roxbury led to its being named for him. 



Oomstock, Greorge Francis, jurist, born in Williams- 

 town, Oswego County, N. Y., Au. 24, 1811; died in 

 Syracuse, N. Y., Sept 27, 1892. He was graduated at 

 Union College in 1834, admitted to the oar in 1837, 

 appointed reporter of the Court of Appeals by Gov. 

 ^ oimLf in 1847, solicitor-general of the United States 

 in 1 c.-.j-'SS under President Filmore's administration, 

 chief justice of the Court of Appeals of New York in 

 12. and was delegate-at-IaiY6 to the constitutional 

 convention of 1868, where ho and the late Judge Folger 

 framed tin: judiciary article in the present Constitu- 

 tion. In L86, by request of the heirs of Chancellor 

 Kent, he edited the eleventh edition of " Kent's Com- 

 mentaries." Judge Comstoek was very successful at 

 the, bar, and was engaged in several cases of more 

 than usual interest, including the contest of Commo- 

 dore Vanderbilt's will, where he represented the pro- 

 ponents bv prior arrangement with Mr. Vanderbilt; 

 the Cornell University suit over Mrs. Jennie McGraw 

 Fisk's bequest to that institution; and the trial of 

 Jacob Sharp in the Broadway Railway case, in which 

 he was one of the counsel 'for the people. He was 

 one of the founders of Syracuse University, toward 

 whose establishment he gave $50,000 ; was the founder 

 of St. John's School for Boys at Manlius, Onoudaija 

 County, N. Y., to which he gave $60,000; and for 

 many years was a trustee of the State Institute for 

 Feeble-minded Children in Syracuse. 



Oonway, Ellas, politician, born in Tennessee, May 

 IT. I81f; -lied in Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 28, 1892. 

 He removed to Little Rock in 1833, and resided there 

 till his death. From July, 1S34, till June, ls:;r., when 

 Arkansas was admitted into the Union, he was Terri- 

 torial Auditor, and afterward was State Auditor for 

 : years. He \va> elected Governor on the Demo- 

 cratic ticket in 1852, and re-elected in 1854, and at 

 the close of liis administration he left every depart- 

 ment of the State in a flourishing condition, especially 

 the treasury, of late years he had led a very se- 

 el u led life, and dresse'd in the old-fashioned garb. 

 He was burned to death in a tire at his residence. 



18, 1892. She wan graduated at Hartford Female 



Seminary in 1 !:;. She wan married at New Haven, 

 Conn., April la, 1873, to Rollin II. Cooke, un iron 

 manufacturer of Winstcd, Conn., in which latter town 

 she lived until she removed with her husband to 

 1'ittslield, in 1887. She began to write \\hen she 

 was still u girl, and "The Mormon's Wife" ap- 

 peared in ' Graham's Magazine" when the author 

 was but eighteen. She was one of the earliest con- 

 tributors to the -Atlantic Monthly," and furnished 

 the story " Sally Parson's Duty " to the tlrst number 

 of that periodical. Her published works include 

 44 Poems by Rose Terry" (Boston, I860) ; "Happy 

 Dod.l" (Boston, 1879); "Somebody's Neighbors^ 

 (Boston, 1881): "The Deacon's Weelc" (New York, 

 1885) ; " Root-bound and other Sketches " (Boston, 

 1885); "No: A Storv for Boys" (New York, 

 "The Sphinx's Children and Other People's" (Bos- 

 ton, 1886) : " Poems by Rose Terry Cooke. Complete '' 

 ( New York, 1888) ; " Steadfast : A Novel " (Boston, 

 1889) ; " Huckleberries " (Boston, 1892). Among the 

 many writers on New England rural life none nave 

 shown a clearer insight, or depicted it more faithfully 

 or sympathetically, than Mrs. Cooke has done in her 

 short stories written during the past thirty-live years. 

 Two of the most characteristic of these are " Miss Lu- 

 ciuda" and "Freedom Wheeler's Controversy with 

 Providence." Her verse is thoughtful in its cast, 

 and sometimes reaches u distinctly high level of in- 

 spiration. " The Two Villages " is her most quoted 

 poem, but others, like " Segovia and Madrid," ' Revo 

 du Midi." and " Bluebeard's Chamber," are notably 

 good. Her home at Winsted was an old-fashioned 

 structure, which she had tilled with antique furniture, 

 and was surrounded by attractive grounds, where she 

 spent the most of her time. 



Cooley, Dennis Nelson, jurist, born in Vermont in 

 1825; died in New York city, Nov. 13. 1892. He was 

 a cousin of Thomas M. Cooley, ex-chairman of tho 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, studied law with 

 Judge Barrett, of Brattleboro, and was admitted to 

 the bar there, and when thirty y6ars old removed to 

 Washington, D. C., and engaged in practice, but sub- 

 sequently made his permanent residence in Dubuque, 

 Iowa. In 1864 he was appointed by President Lin- 

 coln a special commissioner to South Carolina; in 

 1865 was appointed Commissioner of Indian Allairs, 

 and in 1869 was reappointed. In 1873 he was elected 

 State Senator in Iowa, and was appointed commis- 

 sioner to the Vienna Exposition. In 1873-'82 he owned 

 the Dubuque "Times." At the time of his death he 

 was a judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa. 

 Oorbit, William Pitt, clergyman, born in Philadel- 

 tiia, Pa., Oct 12, 1818; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 



Dec. 11, 1892. He received a limited education, be- 

 came a truckman, was converted in 1836, began ex- 

 horting in meetings of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, and was encouraged to study for the ministry 

 in 1840. In 1841 he was admitted on trial to the New 



pastorates in Newark and Hackcnsack; in ls">4 wa> 

 transferred to New York city, and till ISSfl held charges 

 there, and in Newark, Jersey City, Baltimore, Brook- 

 lyn, and New Haven. He was verv tall and straight, 

 with long, straight, jet-black hair, nigh cheek-bones, 

 and swarthy complexion. He was a natural orator, an 

 exceedingly forcible speaker, and much given to 

 startling dramatic effects. 



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Ooxe, Brinton, lawyer, lx>m in Philadelphia, Aug. 3, 

 83; died in Drifton, Pa., Sept. l.">._lv-j. IK 



the bar in 1S55. He then spent a year abroad study- 

 ing law. While aetivelv engaged in hi* profession 



11 w:m burned to death in a tire at his residence. be gave much time to Viterary juirsuit*, and made 



Oooke. Rose Terry, author, born in West Hartford, special researches into the principle* of jurisprudence. 

 Conn., Feb. 17, ls:i7 ; died in Pittsfleld, Mass., July history, and political economy. He was President of 



