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battery, and after the surrender was appointed 

 chief of artillery in the Department of Missouri. 

 He was promoted major, Aug. 10, 1803; lieuten- 

 ant colonel, Oct. 2; and colonel of the 2d Mis- 

 souri Light Artillery, Feb. 5, 1804. In the spring 

 of 18<5 he was sent to the head waters of the 

 Yellowstone river in command of an expedition 

 of 1,500 veteran soldiers to subdue the northern 

 Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians, and he 

 accomplished that mission. He was mustered 

 out of the service in November following, and 

 returned to his business in St. Louis. On May 

 28. 181)8, he was appointed a brigadier general of 

 volunteers, and he was first assigned to the 3d 

 brigade. 2d Division, at Camp Alger. Subse- 

 quently he was transferred to the camp at Colum- 

 bia. S/C. The unwholesome conditions at Camp 

 Alger undermined his health, and while at the 

 Columbia camp he was obliged to resign. Gen. 

 Cole was twice commander of the Department 

 of Missouri, Grand Army of the Republic; senior 

 vice-commander in chief. Grand Army of the Re- 

 public, in 1S87: and a past commander of the 

 Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of 

 the Loyal Legion. 



Collett, John, geologist, born in Eugene, Ind., 

 in 1828: died in Indianapolis, Ind., March 15, 

 IS'.M). He was graduated at Wabash College in 

 1847. In 1870 he was elected to the State Senate 

 from Parke and Vermilion Counties, and he 

 served through three sessions. He had been a 

 student of geology from boyhood, and after his 

 service in the Senate he was employed by Prof. 

 E. T. Cox, the State Geologist, to make detailed 

 geological surveys of the State. Subsequently he 

 succeeded Prof. Cox. In 1878 he was appointed 

 Statehouse commissioner, and in 1879 chief of the 

 Bureau of Statistics and Geology. 



Conant, Mrs. Helen Stevens, author, born in 

 Methuen, Mass., Oct. 9, 1839; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., April 17, 1899. She married Samuel Still- 

 man Conant, long the managing editor of Harper's 

 Weekly, and assisted him in his work until his 

 mysterious disappearance in 1885. She was the 

 author of The Butterfly Hunters (Boston, 1868) ; 

 A Primer of German Literature (New York, 1878) ; 

 and A Primer of Spanish Literature (1879). 



Cook, James H., clergyman, born in New York 

 city in 1842; died there, Aug. 11, 1899. He was 

 educated at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 

 and in 1866 began to preach in the Union African 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in New York. He 

 was ordained in 1871, then spent several years in 

 Springfield, Mass,, returned to the Union Church 

 in 1884, and in 1891 was elevated to the episco- 

 pate and assigned to the 2d district of Union 

 African Methodist Episcopal churches, compris- 

 ing 22 congregations in New York, New Jersey, 

 Connecticut, and Massachusetts, with official resi- 

 dence in Wilmington, Del. 



Cook. William H., physician, born in New 

 York city in 1832; died in Chicago, 111., April 14, 

 1899. In 1852 he became Professor of Chemistry 

 in Syracuse (N. Y.) Medical College, in 1854-'84 

 was dean of the Physico-Medical Institute of Cin- 

 cinnati, in 1891 removed to Chicago, and at the 

 time of his death was president of the College 

 of Medicine and Surgery and editor of The Chi- 

 cago Medical Observer. He was the author of 

 many medical treatises. Three of his sons are 

 college professors. 



Cooper, Ada Augusta, composer, born in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1861 ; died in Orange, N. J., 

 Sept. 18, 1899. She was graduated at Shaw Uni- 

 versity, Raleigh, N. C., and then taught for sev- 

 eral years in the public schools of Raleigh and 

 Washington, D. C. In 1892 she married the Rev 



A. B. Cooper, D. D., then just entered on the 

 ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal 

 Church in Raleigh. She assisted her husband in 

 his pastorates, going to Orange in the spring of 

 1899. She was a pleasing and eloquent lecturer 

 on temperance and woman's wdrk, an author and 

 poet of high merit, a musical composer of grace 

 and feeling, and had mastered several languages. 

 She was the author of many hymns, anthems, 

 and carols. Among her most ambitious w T orks is 

 the children's Easter Day service He is Risen and 

 a special service, the first one ever written, for 

 the Sunday schools of the African Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church. 



Cooper, Job Adams, banker, born near Green- 

 ville, 111., Nov. 6, 1843; died in Denver, Col., Jan. 

 20, 1899. He was graduated at Knox College, 

 Galesburg, 111., in 1865. While at college he en- 

 listed in May, 1864, with many other students, 

 in the 137th Illinois Infantry, and served till mus- 

 tered out in the latter part of the same year. 

 In 1867 he was admitted to the bar, and began 

 practice in Greenville. In 1868 he was elected 

 circuit clerk and recorder of Bond County, 111., 

 serving till his removal to Denver in 1872. For 

 a time he practiced law r , and later he became in- 

 terested in a fire insurance agency, retiring to 

 accept a place with the German National Bank. 

 During the early years of his residence in the 

 West he was interested in the stock business. In 

 1888 he was elected Governor of Colorado on the 

 Republican ticket. At the expiration of his term 

 he became president of the National Bank of Com- 

 merce of Denver, which office he held till 1897. 

 From that time he devoted his attention to the 

 management of his property interest and to min- 

 ing at Cripple Creek. 



Corey, Charles Henry, educator, born in New 

 Canaan, New Brunswick, Canada, Dec. 12, 1834; 

 died in Seabrook, N. H., Sept. 5, 1899. He was 

 graduated at Acadia College, Wolfville, Nova 

 Scotia, in 1858, and at the Newton (Mass.) Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1861. In September of the 

 last year he was ordained pastor of the First 

 Baptist Church at Seabrook, N. H., where he 

 remained till Jan. 1, 1864, when he entered the 

 service of the United States Christian Commis- 

 sion. He remained in the field till the close of 

 the war, and then went to South Carolina as a 

 missionary to the freedmen, under the direction 

 of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. 

 In the ensuing two years he organized churches 

 for the freedmen and secured for them ministers 

 of their own race. In the autumn of 1867 he was 

 appointed principal of the Augusta (Ga.) Insti- 

 tute, and in the following year he became presi- 

 dent of Richmond (Va.) Theological Seminary. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Richmond 

 (Va.) College, Baylor University, Texas, and Mc- 

 Master University, Canada. His publications in- 

 clude Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Labor 

 among the Colored People of the South. 



Coues, Elliott:, naturalist, born in Portsmouth, 

 N. H., Sept. 9, 1842 ; died in Baltimore, Md., Dec: 

 25, 1899. He lived in Portsmouth until 1853, 

 when he accompanied his parents to Washington, 

 D. C., where he was educated at Gonzaga College 

 and at Columbian University, being graduated at 

 the last named in 1861 and at its medical de- 

 partment in 1863. Meanwhile, in 1862, he en- 

 tered the United States army as a medical cadet, 

 and a year later w T as promoted to assistant sur- 

 geon. He received the brevet of captain for serv- 

 ices during the civil war, and resigned on Nov. 

 17, 1881. An early fondness for natural history 

 led him to devote much attention to the flora 

 and fauna of the regions adjacent to the posts 



