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general. May 12, 18R4, and was mustered out, .lun. l. r >, 

 Is.;.;. Duriiitf tin- civil war he was btVTttted nudOT, 

 Mu\ "., IM.:J. for irallantry at Chanecllorsville ; lieu- 

 tenant-colonel. July .'! following, for (lettysburg ; 

 colonel, Ma\ :<, iMJ-i. for tlif Wilderness; and briga- 

 dier ircncral ami major-general, U. S. A., and major- 

 general, I'. S. V., March 1.", ls;. r >, for BpOtptMrlVplldl 

 and meritorious services during tin- war. He w a.- 

 \\oundcd at Kapidan, in the WildenUM, arid at 

 Spottsylvaiiia, and was retired tordisal.ility, as major- 

 general, before he was thirty-scsen years old. 



Case, Augustus Lndlow, naval officer, born in New- 

 burgh, N/Y., Feb.::. I si". ; died in Washington. 1 >. i .. 

 Ft-:'. 17. Is 1 .':;. IU: was appointed a midshipman in 

 tin- I'nited Stales navy, April 1, 1828 5 was promoted 

 passed midshipman, June 14, 1834; lieutenant, Fob. 

 j.">. is n ; eoininander, Sept. 14, 1855; captain, Jan. 2, 

 I si;:; : .<.niinodore, Dec. 8, 1867 ; andrear-adminil, Mav 

 24, 1872; and was retired Feb. 3, 1875. During his 

 active career lie was on sea duty twenty-three years 

 and six months, on shore or other duty thirteen years 

 and eight months, and was unemployed twenty-two 

 years and seven months. He was engaged in the 

 South Sea exploring expedition in 1837 -'42 ; was 

 present at the capture of Vera Cruz, Alvarado, and 

 I'abasco, in the Mexican War; lighthouse inspector 

 in l>."3-'57; in the 1'araguay expedition in 1859; 

 tteet captain of the North Atlantic blockading 

 squadron, and present at the capture of Forts Hat 

 teras and Clark in August, 1861; commanded the 

 t.loekade of New Inlet, N. C., in 1863; chief of the 

 Ordnance Department in 1869-73 and commander 

 of the naval force at Key West during the excite- 

 ment following the capture of the "Virginius" by 

 the Spaniards in 1874. 



Camlear, John W., painter, born in New York city, 

 June 2;"), 1811 ; died in Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1893. 

 When fifteen years old he began studying steel en- 

 graving with Peter Maverick, and subsequently was 

 for many years in the employ of the American Bank 

 Note Company. While so employed he became an 

 excellent draughtsman, and took up the study of oil 

 painting, spending 1840-'42 in study in Europe, and 

 1857-'58 sketching in Switzerland. He was elected 

 an associate of the National Academy of Design in 

 1835, and a full member in 1851. His numerous 

 paintings include : " A Swiss Lake " (1868) ; " Gene- 

 see Meadows" (1871); "September Afternoon" 

 (1874); "Trout Brook" (1875); " Dlleswater, Eng- 

 land" and "Autumn" (1876); "Lake Leman" and 

 "A Scene in New Hampshire" (1877); "View on 

 Chemung River" (1878); "View of the Rocky 

 Mountains" (1881) ; "Scene on Long Island" (1883); 

 " Karly Autumn" (1884); " Genesee Valley" (1885); 

 "Early Summer, Long Island Sound" (1886); and 

 " Summer Day," exhibited 1893. 



Ohipman, Jolin Logan, lawyer, born in Detroit, Mich., 

 June 5, 1830; died there, Aug. 17, 1893. He received 

 a common-school and university education; became 

 explorer in the Lake Superior region for a mining 

 company in 1846; and was admitted to the bar in 

 1854. In the latter year he took part in negotiating 

 a treaty with the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of 

 Mieliiiran, and in settling the claims of the Chippe- 

 was. From 1856 till 1861 he was city attorney of De- 

 troit; in 18C;i was elected to the Legislature; in 1866 

 was defeated as Democratic candidate for Congress ; 

 in 1879 and 1885 was elected judge of the Superior 

 Court; and in 1886, 1888, 1890, and 1892, was elected to 

 Congress from the 1st Michigan District as a Demo- 

 crat. His last committee service was as chairman of 

 tlie joint i 'ommittee on the Election of President and 

 Vice-President and Representatives in Congress, and 

 on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 



Coleman. William T.. merchant, born in Cynthiana, 

 Ky., Feb. 29, 1S24; died in San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 

 22, 1893. In early youth he engaged in lumbering in 

 St. Louis, went through the full course in the St. 

 Louis University in two years, and began studying 

 law, but was soon compelled by failing health to 

 abandon it. He then spent several years in luiuber- 

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inu' in the forests of WiKconnin. In 1849 he became 

 one of a party who made the overland trip to <'uli 

 forma, and while his companion* went direct t<> tin; 

 mines lie opened several stop--, tor tlie hale of mining 

 supplies. The assault on Mr. J arisen, a well-known 

 merchant of San Francisco, in February, ls."d, Jed to 

 a determination on the part of the law-abiding citi- 

 zens to rid the community of it* large criminal ele- 

 ment, and to the formation of the famous Vigilance 

 <'ommittee, of which Mr. Coleman was one of the 

 foremost members. In 1856 the committee was re- 

 vived with Mr. Coleman at it.s head, in consequence 

 of the murder of James King, of William, a conspicu- 

 ous editor. Mr. Coleman resisted great pressure 

 against interfering with "tlie people," had charge of 

 the trials, directed the execution of the murderers, 

 and prevented the committee from taking any action 

 that would precipitate trouble witn the United States 

 authorities. From 1857 till 1864 he lived in New 

 York city, but continued to direct the business o( the 

 firm of William T. Coleman & Co. in San Francisco. 

 While in New York city he aided materially in sup- 

 pressing the draft riot, contributed liberally to patri- 

 otic benefactions, and after the war headed the move- 

 ment to aid the stricken people of the South. In 1877 

 and 1878 he left his business affairs at the request of 

 citizens of San Francisco and organized the Commit- 

 tee of Safety to fight Dennis Kearney and his -and - 

 lots mob. In this, as in previous emergencies, he 

 was highly successful. In 1888 his firm failed with 

 liabilities of about $2,000,000, but it made a compro- 

 mise with its creditors, and in 1892 Mr. Coleman per- 

 sonally liquidated his entire indebtedness, more tnan 

 he was legally bound to pay, with interest 



Oolliau, Victor, inventor, born in Paris, France, in 

 1828 ; died in Detroit, Mich., Jan. 17, 1893. He be- 

 longed to a family of ironmasters who for three gen- 

 erations had conducted extensive works near Paris. 

 His grandfather was the first to make wire nails by 

 machinery, and his father the first to make wire rope 

 similarly. He was educated in chemistry and engi- 

 neering, and had charge of his father's establishment 

 for several years ; became a mining superintendent 

 in West Virginia in 1857 ; and invented an improve- 

 ment on a French system for saving fuel in iron 

 melting and the well-Known Colliau cupola. 



Collier, Thomas Stephens, author, born in New York 

 city, Nov. 4, 1842; died in New London, Conn., Sept 

 21, 1893. He was educated in the common schools of 

 New York citv, and entered the United States navy 

 at the age of fourteen as an apprentice. In 1866 

 he was appointed boatswain, and he was retired in 

 October, 1883, on account of disabilities received in 

 the service. His long service in the navy gave him 

 the advantage of visiting those ports that are reached 

 by our naval vessels, and he spent several years in 

 Japan. He began writing at an early age, and was for 

 many years a constant contributor to periodicals, and 

 several of his poems attained a deserved popularity. 

 He was an earnest bibliophile, and a collector of 

 china. After his retirement from the navy he de- 

 voted his time to literary work and to his col- 

 lection of books, china, and coins. In 1889 ho 

 published his collected poems under the title of 

 " Song Sprays." He had been secretary of the New 

 London County Historical Society since its founda- 

 tion, and was an authority on the early publications 

 of this countrv, having made them his especial study. 



Golton, Joseph Hutchins. cartographer, t>orn in Spring- 

 field, Mass., July 15,1800; died in Brooklyn, N. Y.. 

 July 19,1898. He kept a country store in Lenox, 

 Mass., from 1820 till 1829, and established himself in 

 New York city as a maker and publisher of maps in 

 1830. This business he followed with success till age 

 compelled him to relinquish active management to 

 others, and his varied geographical publications had 

 laru'c salt's and wide reputation. Through his long 

 life he had been interested deeply in religious, tem- 

 perance, antislaverv, and musical movements. 



Comegys. Joseph Parsons, jurist, l>orn in Cherbourg, 

 Kent County, Del, Dec. 29, 1818 ; died in Dover, 



