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treasurer several years, and was twice elected presi- 

 dent of the association. In 1889 he was defeated 

 as the Republican candidate for State Comptroller, 

 though he ran far ahead of his ticket, and in 1897 

 he was chosen by the Supreme Court and county 

 judges the first jury commissioner of Monroe County 

 under a new law. Mr. Cooke had given much time 

 to literary and scientific work ; was a member of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and of several clubs ; and had published 

 " The Human Mystery in Hamlet." He was strongly 

 attached to the University of Rochester, and had 

 long served it as trustee and attorney. 



Cooler, Thomas Mclntyre, jurist, born near 

 Attica, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1824; died in Ann Arbor, 

 Midi., Sept. 12, 1898. He removed to Michigan in 

 1843, and after his admission to the bar in 1846 

 practiced for a time in Tecumseh, and settling 

 later in Adrian in the same State edited the 

 - \Vatch Tower." In 1857 he was appointed by 

 the Michigan Legislature to compile and publish 

 the laws of the State, and in the following year be- 

 came reporter of the Supreme Court decisions. In 

 1859 he was made a professor of law in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, and he was for many years 

 dean of the faculty prior to 1885. In 1864 he was 

 elected a justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan, 

 and he was re-elected in 1869 for eight years, hav- 

 ing served as Chief Justice in 1868 and 1869. He 

 retired from the bench in 1885, and for the next 

 three years was Professor of American History in 

 the University of Michigan and also lecturer on 

 constitutional law. Under President Cleveland he 

 held for four years the office of Interstate Com- 

 merce Commissioner. Owing to failing health he 

 retired from active life in 1891. He contributed 

 frequently to periodicals, but will be best remem- 

 bered by his chief work, ' The Constitutional Limi- 

 tations which rest upon the Legislative Power of 

 the States of the American Union " (Boston, 1868), 

 a standard authority. His other works, original 

 and compiled, include " Report of Cases in the Su- 

 preme Court of Michigan, 1858-'64" (Detroit, 

 1859-'64) ; " Digest of Michigan Reports " (Detroit, 

 1866) ; " A Treatise on the Law of Taxation " (Chi- 

 cago, 1876) ; " Treatise upon Wrongs and their 

 Remedies, Vol. I, Principles of the Law of Torts" 

 (Chicago, 1878) ; " The General Principles of Con- 

 stitutional Law in the United States " (Boston, 

 1880) ; " Michigan : A History of Government " 

 (Boston, 1885) ; " The Acquisition of Indiana " (In- 

 dianapolis, 1887). 



Cooney, Myron A., journalist, born in Dublin, 

 Ireland, in 1841 ; died in Albany, N. Y., June 21, 

 1898. He received a collegiate education in his 

 native city, and, removing to the United States 

 in 1860, became a clerk on a Mississippi steamboat. 

 At the beginning of the civil war ne entered the 

 service of the New York " Herald " as a war corre- 

 spondent, and at its close he was appointed music- 

 al and dramatic editor of the paper. He remained 

 in New York till 1885, when he went to Albany, 

 where he assumed the editorship of the " Argus," 

 with which he remained till 1891. During the 

 succeeding years of his life he was a legislative cor- 

 respondent for several newspapers and financial 

 clerk in the Department of Public Instruction. A 

 large part of Mr. Cooney's education was musical, 

 and he wrote a great number of carols, waltzes, 

 English librettos to popular operas, and songs, 

 composing lx>th the words and the music. His 

 " Nautilus Waltz " was made a great success by 

 Theodore Thomas, and his musical Roman drama 

 entitled " (VciHa,'' which was written for the Con- 

 vent of the Sacred Heart of Sharon, was produced 

 >n a grand scale by the Laztirist Fathers of Balti- 

 more in 1874. 



Cooper, Margaret Snuderlaiid, philanthropist, 

 born in Quincy, Mass. ; died in Hyde Park, Mass., 

 Aug. 6, 1898. She was a daughter of Le Roy Sun- 

 derland, a well-known Methodist preacher and au- 

 thor. From early womanhood she had been ac- 

 tively engaged in humanitarian work. She was a 

 vice-president of the Massachusetts Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a director of tin- 

 American Humane Association, and a director of 

 the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, 

 great was her interest in dumb animals that at one 

 time she obtained an appointment under which slit- 

 superintended the transportation of cattle. 1 In- 

 literary work was principally in behalf of dumt 

 animals, and the strongest of it was in oppositk 

 to the practice of vivisection. For long-continue 

 efficient, and courageous service she was awarde 

 the gold medal of the American Humane Associa 

 tion in 1883. 



Cothren, William, lawyer, born in Farmington, 

 Me., Nov. 28, 1819; died in Woodbury, Conn., 

 March 12, 1898. He was graduated at Bowdoil 

 College in 1843; removed to Woodbury and wa 

 admitted to the bar in 1845. In 1856 he was ad- 

 mitted to practice in the United States circuit, 

 court, and in 1865 in the United States Supremo 

 Court. Mr. Cothren was best known as an author- 

 ity on Connecticut genealogy, and was the autho^ 

 of a "History of Ancient Woodbury" and othe.' 

 works. 



Couldock, Charles Walter, actor, born in 

 Acre, London, England, April 26, 1815; died ill 

 New York city, Nov. 27, 1898. He made his firsi 

 appearance on the stage at Sadler's Wells Theaterjj 

 London, as Othello, under the name of Mr. For- 

 tescue in 1837. At the age of nine years he had 

 begun to learn the trade of carpenter with his stej)- 

 father, and at thirteen had taken employment in a 

 silk warehouse, where he worked nine years as an 

 errand boy and clerk. His adoption of the stage 

 was the result of an enthusiastic admiration of the 

 acting of William C. Macready, of whose character^ 

 istic methods Couldock always remained somewhat 

 of an exponent. After his debut at Sadler's Wells 

 he took a country engagement at Farnham, Surrey, 

 but after six months of ill-paid work there he joined 

 Jackman's traveling company, the first of that kind 

 in vogue, and shared its fortunes for two years. 

 Affection for a young lady whom he met during 

 this term led him to relinquish the drama ana 

 return to mercantile life. He was employed in a 

 wholesale dry-goods house in London for two years, 

 during which he ineffectually tried to induce the 

 young lady to marry him. At the same time he 

 became a prominent member of an amateur dra- 

 matic company called " The Shaksperean," of which 

 Dion Boucicault, then known as Lee Moreton, 

 and other distinguished people were members. In 

 the performances of this society, given at the St. 

 James's Theater, Drury Lane, and the Italian 

 Opera House, Couldock played such parts as laj.-o, 

 Petruchio, Hotspur, and Antonio. His resumption 

 of the actor's calling took place with the stock com- 

 pany at Gravesend in the autumn of 1841. At the 

 close of a season at Gravesend he joined the stc-k 

 company of the Bristol and Bath Circuit in support 

 of John Vandenhoff. In Bristol he married Louisa 

 Smith, with whom he lived happily until her death, 

 in 1877. Following his Bristol engagement he was 

 for a time with the company playing at Southamp- 

 ton, from which he went to become a leading man 

 and public favorite in Edinburgh. On Dec. ~<i, 1M'>. 

 he began a prosperous engagement with the st< i-k 

 company playing in Liverpool and Birmingham 

 with a performance of Sir Giles Overreach in 'hi 1 

 last-named city. Here Mr. Couldock was the prin- 

 cipal support o"f all the prominent actors of his il iy. 



