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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CORY COWIE.) 



of the 12 theological students with whom the 

 American college in Rome was opened, after he 

 had devoted a year to preliminary studies, in- 

 cluding Italian and Hebrew. He was an indus- 

 trious student, and won several medals, and his 

 piety and scrupulous 

 obedience caused his 

 superiors to consent to 

 his becoming a priest a 

 year before the close of 

 his theological course. 

 He was ordained on 

 Sept. 19, 1863. He fin- 

 ished his studies in 

 1864, obtaining the de- 

 gree of D. D. after a 

 rigorous examination. 

 In July of that year he 

 returned to the United 

 States. Bishop Bayley, 

 of Newark, appointed 

 him director of the 



ecclesiastical seminary at Seton Hall College, 

 South Orange, N. J., and made him Professor of 

 Dogmatic Theology and Sacred Scripture in that 

 institution, and he was soon made vice-president 

 of Seton Hall, and in 1868 became head of the 

 college. To his other duties were added in 1870 

 those of administrator and vicar-general of the 

 diocese of Newark during the absence of Bishop 

 Bayley at Rome. Early in 1873 Bishop Bayley 

 was made Archbishop of Baltimore, and in March 

 of that year Pope Pius IX made Dr. Corrigan 

 Bishop of Newark, his consecration taking place 

 on May 4. He retained the presidency of Seton 

 Hall College until 1876, when he resigned in favor 

 of the vice-president, his brother, the Rev. James 

 H. Corrigan. During his episcopate in Newark 

 he opened a reformatory for boys, a refuge for 

 women, and an orphan asylum, introduced into 

 New Jersey the Jesuits and Dominicans, founded 

 a convent for the Dominican nuns of the Perpet- 

 ual Adoration, dedicated 42 new churches, and 

 consecrated the Newark Cathedral. On Sept. 

 26, 1880, owing to the age and infirmities of 

 Cardinal McCloskey, Pope Leo appointed Bishop 

 Corrigan as coadjutor for the diocese of New 

 York, with the title of Archbishop of Petra and 

 the right of succession. Thus he became the 

 youngest archbishop in the United States, with 

 the exception of Archbishop Seghers, as he had 

 been the youngest bishop. Nearly all the prac- 

 tical work of the diocese devolved upon him. 

 On Oct. 10, 1885, by the death of Cardinal 

 McCloskey, he became Archbishop of New York, 

 and he was invested with the pallium in March, 

 1886. Within three months he was confronted 

 with the most serious controversy that ever dis- 

 turbed the Catholic community in the United 

 States. Henry George had been selected by the 

 working men as candidate for mayor of New 

 York and began to preach his doctrines, de- 

 claring private ownership of land unjust. He 

 was supported by many of the Catholic clergy, 

 and Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of St. Stephen's 

 Church, openly espoused his cause. Archbishop 

 Corrigan opposed the doctrines, and his vicar- 

 general declared them to be heretical. Henry 

 George was defeated, but immediately began 

 preparations for the State campaign next year. 

 Archbishop Corrigan, in a pastoral letter, de- 

 fended ownership of land as the only means of 

 securing the rights of property, which he based 

 on the right of man to what he produces. Mr. 

 George replied that exclusive possession would 

 secure the same right and prevent an unearned 

 increment being drawn in the form of rent from 



those who did not own land. Archbishop Corri- 

 gan forbade Dr. McGlynn to continue his sup- 

 port, and complained to Pope Leo that the priest 

 was attacking the rights of property. Dr. 

 McGlynn was excommunicated, and Henry 

 George was defeated at the election of 1887. 

 Later, when Archbishop Satolli became papal 

 ablegate at Washington, the case was reopened, 

 Dr. McGlynn was restored to his priestly func- 

 tions, and Archbishop Corrigan gave him a parish 

 in Newburg. Subsequently a great public recep- 

 tion was tendered to Archbishop Corrigan in 

 recognition of his defense of landed interests, in 

 which not only Catholics but representatives of 

 New York's wealthy families took part. In the 

 Cahensly controversy, which became acute in 

 1890, Archbishop Corrigan refrained from taking 

 an active part, although he sympathized to some 

 extent with the wishes of the Austrian noble- 

 man that emigrants coming to America from 

 different European countries should have placed 

 over them bishops of their own nationalities. 

 Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland op- 

 posed the idea, and the Propaganda soon after- 

 ward condemned it. Archbishop Corrigan wrote 

 a letter to Heir Cahensly, complimenting him on 

 his work in behalf of German-speaking immi- 

 grants, but saying that every one must abide 

 by the decision of the Propaganda. In the sev- 

 enteen years of his episcopate the Catholic popu- 

 lation of the archdiocese of New York grew to be 

 about a million and a half. It includes the coun- 

 ties of New York, Westchester, Putnam, Dutch- 

 ess, Ulster, Sullivan, Orange, Rockland, and Rich- 

 mond in the State of New York, and the Bahama 

 Islands, to which the archbishop made periodical 

 visits. On Feb. 23, 1902, while the archbishop 

 was going from his house to the cathedral ad- 

 joining, he fell into an excavation under the 

 pathway which had not been sufficiently boarded 

 over, and received a severe shock, from which 

 he did not recover for several weeks. In April 

 he went to Washington to attend a meeting of 

 the Catholic University, and took a severe cold 

 on the trip, which developed into pneumonia on 

 his return and caused his death. He was suc- 

 ceeded by the Right Rev. John M. Farley, who 

 had been auxiliary bishop since 1896. 



Cory, Florence Elizabeth, designer, born in 

 Syracuse, N. Y. ; died in New York city, March 20, 

 1902. In 1877 she took up the art of designing, 

 became the first practical textile designer among 

 American women, and founded and conducted 

 the School of Industrial Art and Technical De- 

 sign for Women in New York city. She was 

 led to engage in textile designing by the sight of 

 some costly but inartistic carpets, and was aided 

 in her early efforts by the president of a carpet 

 company in Connecticut and by the officials of 

 other representative factories. She learned that 

 tasteful designs were often rejected because they 

 could not be woven, and that there was- a limita- 

 tion to machinery. This led her to study the 

 mechanical part of the industry, and in time she 

 became a successful designer not only of carpets, 

 but of wall-paper and of silk and woolen good-. 



Cowie, George, naval officer, born in Scotland 

 in 1846; died in Rahway, N. J., May 23, 1902. 

 He was appointed an acting third assistant en- 

 gineer in the navy May 23, 1864; commissioned 

 second assistant engineer July 9, 1870; promoted 

 passed assistant engineer Dec. 3, 1876; chief en- 

 gineer Sept. 12, 1892; lieutenant-commander 

 March 3, 1899; commander July 1, 1899: and cap- 

 tain Feb. 11, 1901; and was advanced three num- 

 bers on the retired list of captains for eminent 

 and conspicuous conduct in battle. He partici- 



