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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (COWELL CRANE.) 



1884, she played Minnie in William Mestayer's 

 production of Madame Piper at Wallack's 

 Theater, New York. In August of the same year 

 she played a leading part in a grand production 

 of The Seven Ravens at Niblo's Garden. During 

 1887-'88 she was leading woman in Crossen's 

 banker's Daughter company. Her last appear- 

 ance was at the Windsor Theater, New York, in 

 a drama called Rookwood, in. 1889. 



Cowell. Anna (Mrs. Anna Cruise Cowell Hob- 

 kirk), actress, born in Belfast, Ireland, April 3, 

 1824; died near Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 12, 1900. 

 She was a niece of the Irish composer Balfe, and 

 made her debut as a singer, at the age of thirteen, 

 in Glasgow, Scotland. She married in April, 1846, 

 William Cowell, with whom she came to America 

 immediately afterward, and made her first ap- 

 pearance as Rosalind in As You Like It at the 

 National Theater, New York, in June of that 

 year. Her success was instant, and she was en- 

 gaged soon afterward as the leading woman of 

 the Adelphi Theater, Boston. She remained at 

 that house two seasons, and then went to the 

 National Theater of the same city, where she 

 played until the place was burned, in 1852. She 

 was then known to the public as Anna Cruise, 

 and was a petted favorite with the people of 

 Boston. She was engaged for the Federal Street 

 Theater, and continued her career in Boston until 

 that house was destroyed by fire, when she be- 

 came the leading actress of the Arch Street 

 Theater, Philadelphia, where she played all the 

 Shakespearean heroines with Edwin Forrest and 

 other tragedians. She returned to Boston in 

 1854-'55 as leading woman of the Boston Mu- 

 seum, and at the end of the season became a star 

 in a play called The Governor's Wife. In 1864 

 she became the leading actress of McVickar's 

 Theater, Chicago, where she remained for many 

 years. After Mr. Cowell's death, in 1868, she re- 

 mained a widow for several years, but finally 

 married Mr. Hobkirk, a banker, and retired from 

 the stage. 



Cox, Jacob Dolson, lawyer and soldier, born 

 in Montreal, Canada, Oct. 27, 1828; died in Mag- 

 nolia, Mass., Aug. 4, 1900. He spent his child- 

 hood and youth in New York city, which was the 

 home of his parents. When about twenty years 

 of age he removed to Ohio. He was graduated at 

 Oberlin College in 1851, and in 1852 began to 

 practice law in Warren. In 1859 he was elected 

 as a Republican to the State Senate, of which 

 body he was a member at the outbreak of the 

 civil war. He was commissioned a brigadier gen- 

 eral of volunteers, and saw much service during 

 the war. He was ordered with his brigade to 

 West Virginia, and placed in command of the 

 district of Kanawha. Here, under command of 

 Gen. Rosecrans, his brigade did effective service. 

 Subsequently he was assigned to the 9th Corps, 

 and participated in the battles of South Moun- 

 tain and Antietam, commanding the corps after 

 the fall of Gen. Reno. For his services in this 

 campaign he was made major general. In the At- 

 lanta campaign he commanded a division of the 

 23d Army Corps, and later the entire corps. He 

 took part in the battles of Franklin and Nash- 

 ville, and afterward was ordered to the coast to 

 open communication with Gen. Sherman in his 

 march to the sea. In this effort he defeated Gen. 

 Bragg, with great loss to the Confederate forces, 

 at Kinston, N. C. After the war he superintended 

 th mustering out of the troops in Ohio, and 

 while so engaged he was elected Governor of the 

 State, in 1865, by the Republican party. He op- 

 posed the party policy on the question of negro 

 suffrage, and favored forcible colonization; he 



also supported President Johnson, and as a result 

 was not renominated. President Johnson offered 

 him the post of Commissioner of Internal Rev- 

 enue, but he declined it. He presided at the na- 

 tional convention that nominated Gen. Grant in 

 1868, and was Secretary of the Interior in 1869- 

 '70, when he resigned to resume the practice ol 

 law in Cincinnati. In 1873 he became president 

 of the Wabash Railroad, and made his home in 

 Toledo till 1876, when he was elected to Con- 

 gress. He was dean of the Cincinnati Law School 

 from 1881 till 1897, and was for a time president 

 of Cincinnati University. The degree of LL. D. 

 was conferred on him by the University of North 

 Carolina and by Davison University. He pub- 

 lished Atlanta (New York, 1882) ; The March to 

 the Sea: Frankfort and Nashville (1882); The 

 Second Battle of Bull Run, as Connected with 

 the Fitz John Porter Case (Cincinnati, 1882) ; The 

 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864 

 (New York, 1897); and Military Reminiscences 

 of the Civil War (2 vols., New York, 1900). 



Coyne, Gardiner (Henry Andrew Gardiner), 

 actor, born in Dublin, Ireland, in October, 1839; 

 died there April 7, 1900. He was a cousin of John 

 Drew the elder, and came to the United States 

 when a boy. His first appearance was at the 

 Museum, Troy, N. Y., in 1850, and for three years 

 he was a member of the stock company of that 

 house. In the spring of 1854 he became a mem- 

 ber of the Arch Street Theater company, Philadel- 

 phia, then under his cousin's management. Hi? 

 first part was Herbert Carol in The Wandering 

 Minstrel (Feb. 28, 1854), and his success was such 

 that after a short engagement he went before the 

 public as a star, jointly with his sister Mary Anne 

 Gardiner. They were the original Irish Boy and 

 Yankee Girl. In 1862 he retired with a compe- 

 tence and returned to Dublin, where he remained 

 until his death. 



Crane, Stephen, author and journalist, born in 

 Newark, N. J., Nov. 1, 1871; died at Baden Weiler, 

 Germany, June 5, 1900. He was the son of a 

 Methodist clergyman, and after studying at Lafay- 

 ette College and Syracuse University engaged in 

 newspaper work at 

 the age of sixteen. 

 He first attracted 

 attention by The 

 Black Riders, and 

 Other Lines, a vol- 

 ume of eccentric 

 verse, issued in 

 1895, and followed 

 this the next year 

 with The Red 

 Badge of Courage, 

 a story that met 

 with great success, 

 and made him one 

 of the most popu- 

 lar of the younger 

 American writers. 

 In 1895 he made a 

 journalistic tour of 

 Mexico, and he 



was a special correspondent of the New York Jour- 

 nal during the Greco-Turkish War of 1896-'97. On 

 his way to Cuba in 1897 he was shipwrecked, but 

 was rescued after a perilous voyage in an op<n 

 boat. In 1898 he went to Cuba as a special cor- 

 respondent of the New York World, to observe 

 the Spanish- American War, and after that lie made 

 his home principally in England. His literaiy 

 work displays much willfulness in the matter of 

 form, as well as occasional carelessness in composi- 

 tion, but he possessed real talent, and had appur- 



