BIOGRAPHY 



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His course, though marked by bravery and good conduct, 

 was but partially successful. After his return to Eng- 

 land he was appointed governor of Limerick, and sub- 

 sequently of Gibraltar, where he died in 1795. 



( ID vis I., son of Childeric I., was born about 467. 

 and is regarded as the real founder of the French Mon- 

 an-hy. He succeeded Childeric in 481. The victory of 

 Soissons, which he gained in 486, over Syagrius, ren- 

 dered him master of all the Roman possessions in the 

 center of (laul. Victorious when opposed to the Ger- 

 mans at Tolbiac near Cologne, in 496, he is said to have 

 made a vow of embracing Christianity, and to have kept 

 his promise. He was baptized by St. llemigius, Arch- 

 b. -i:,,; > <>f R helms. Having conquered Alaric, King of 

 .tii-. in .'>07. he gained most of the south prov- 

 inces, but was himself overthrown near Aries, by Theo- 

 doric, in 509. Died. 511. 



< oliden. Kit-hard, an eminent British politician and 

 reformer, was born at Dunford, in Sussex, in June, 1804. 

 His early life was spent in connection with manufactur- 

 ing industry at Manchester: and it was not till the year 



aen he unsuccessfully contested the borough of 

 Stockport, that he became publicly known. In 1840, 

 the anti-corn-law agitation commenced; and in the 

 cause of free trade Mr. Cobden took the foremost rank, 

 until the accomplishment of its principles, in 1846. 

 Shortly afterwards a public subscription was raised. 

 and the handsome sum of 70,000 was contributed, as 



aonial of his countrymen to the unwearied 

 exertions of Mr. Cobden. He represented the West 

 Hiding <>f Yorkshire until 1857; and, in 1860, succeeded, 

 with M. Chevalier, in completing a free-trade treaty 

 between France and Great Britain. He died on the 

 \pril. 1865. 



< <>i k r MIL William Htuirke. lawyer, orator: born in 

 Ireland, February 28, 18.V1; educated in Ireland and 

 France; came to the United States, 1871; taught in 

 private academy; later, principal of a public school in 

 Westchester County, N. Y.; then a lawyer, soon be- 

 coming prominent in New York City politics; made 

 noteworthy speeches at National Democratic conven- 

 tions, 1884 and 1892, opposing the nomination of Cleve- 

 land; member of Congress, 1887-89, and 1891-95, as 

 Democrat. In 1896, became advocate of the gold 

 standard and campaigned for IfcKinley. On issue of 

 anti-imi>erialism, returned to Democratic party, 1900, 

 and campaigned for Bryan. Was again elected to 

 Congress, February 23, 1904, at a special election to 

 fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of George B. 



ted, l ( .t<M and I'.tnii. 



;c 11, Francis Marion, United States senator, 

 1875-190"). lawyer; born in Johnson County, Mo., 

 October 1, 1834; graduate of Chapel Hill College, 

 Lafayette County, Mo., 1853; studied law and prac- 

 ticed at Warrensburg; served in Confederate States 

 Army, becoming brigadier-general. Democrat, chair- 

 man of Senate committee on Engrossed Bills, and mem- 

 ber of committees on Appropriation*, Military Affairs, 

 Rules, etc., and \<-<-i committee on Industrial K\po- 

 sitions. Appointed interstate commerce commissioner, 

 March 5. V 



< oh. ti. -o I onion Sol IN. physician: born in Phila- 

 delphia. September 1. ls:,7; son of David Myer and 

 .Judith Sum.-.' : graduate (A. B.) 

 of Central High School. 1S7L>. A. M.. 1S77; graduate 

 of Jefferson Medical College, I.vx.i. Professor of clinical 



. and therapeutics, Philadelphia I'olyelinic and 

 for Graduate* in Medicine. 1889-19O.' lecturer on 



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professor of clinical medicine, Jefferson Medical College. 

 since 1902. Author: "Therapeutic! <>f Tuberculosis," 



of the editors of "The American llel>rcw." Has con- 

 il essays to "Century." 



"Scribner s," "Lippincol na," etc.; also a 



translator < u the II. brew. 



-M I iiu .11,1. ': judge and law 



writer, educated at Norwich grammar school and Cam- 



wiw ralliil to the ,s : early ac, 



high reputation, and became solicitor-geic r il m I. ''.'. 



and attorney-general in 1594. He .|,,, M ,.,| 

 ness in his pronecution of F-*e.\. Ualrigh. 



loyalty game,! him the 

 common ,,|, ., j,, th 



chief justice of the king's ben 



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.l.-jTived in 1610. E 

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 and others ; 



and that of 



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rliament in 



remainder of his life was spent in compiling his '- Com- 

 mentaries upon Littleton." Died, 1634. 



Colbert, Jean Baptist?, born in Hheims, A. D. 1619; 

 a distinguished French statesman, minister of finance in 

 the reign of Louis XIV. His whole life was devoted to 

 financial and fiscal reforms, and to the encouragement 

 of commerce and manufactures. To him the kingdom 

 was indebted for the enlargement of its navy, for the 

 acquisition of many of its foreign possessions, and for a 

 large number of internal improvements. He instituted 

 the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and also 

 the Academies of Science and of Architecture. The 

 Gardens of the Tuileries. the Hotel des Invalid**, the 

 facade of the Louvre, and several of the quays along the 

 Seine, were all the work of Colbert, Died. 1683. 



Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, a poet, essayist, and 

 dramatist, was born at Bristol in 1770. He was sent 

 to Christ's hospital, and subsequently studied at Cam- 

 bridge, where, in 1792, he obtained the prize for the best 

 Greek ode. His works are many, and are generally 

 distinguished by benevolence and piety. His "Sibyline 

 Leaves" and ".Biographia Literaria" found many ad- 

 mirers, and several of his poems were deemed beautiful. 

 Died. 1834. 



Colijcny, Gaspard de Chatlllon, Sire de (ko-lain- 

 ye'), a noted French Huguenot, was born in 1517, and 

 murdered in the St. Bartholomew Massacre, l.~>7 

 early life he attained great distinction as a military 

 leader, and was created admiral in 1552. After the 

 accession of Charles IX., he became a Protestant, and 

 on the breaking out of the civil war, he became, with 

 the Prince de Conde, the leader of the Huguenots. 



Colt, Samuel, an American inventor, born at Hart- 

 ford, Conn., in 1814. He early conceived the idea of 

 revolving fire-arms, and, in 1835, took out a patent for 

 the weapon since known the world over as ' Colt's re- 

 volver." In 1848, he established a company for the 

 working out of his patent, and built at Hartford one of 

 the most extensive armories in the world. Died, 1862. 



Columbus. Christopher, verer of America, on 



October 12, 1492, after two months of great peril and. 

 in the end, mutiny of his men; was born in Genoa. 1438. 

 He went to sea at 14, and cherished, if he did not con- 

 ceive, the idea of reaching India by sailing westward. 

 He applied in many quarters for furtherance, and. 

 after seven years of waiting, was provided with three 

 small vessels and a crew of 120 men. First touching 

 land at the Bahamas, he visited Cuba and Hayti. and 

 returned home with spoils of the land, and was hailed 

 and honored as "King of the Sea." He made three 

 subsequent visits, and on the third had the satisfaction 

 of landing on the mainland, which Sebastian Cabot and 

 Amerigo Vespucci had reached before him; but he 

 became at last the victim of jealousy, and charges were 

 made against him, which so cut him to the heart that 

 he never rallied from the attack, and he died at Valla- 

 dolid. in 1506, broken in body and in soul. Carlyle. in 

 a famous passage, salutes him across the centuries: 

 " Brave sea-captain, Norse sea-king, Columbus, my hero, 

 royalist sea-king of all." 



Comstock. Anthony, secretary and special agent of 

 New York Society for Suppression of Vice since March 

 _'. 1ST.': born in New Canaan. Conn.. March 7, 1844; 

 educated in district school and \S yckoff's Academy, 

 New Canaan, and 1860-61, high srhcxil. New i 

 Conn.; left school to earn hvinir. ISiil. His brother. 

 Samuel, having been killed at Gettysburg, volunteered 

 to fill his place in regiment, riilistiiiK in 17th Com 

 Volunteer Infantry. I >. Mistered out, 



July. 1865. Appointed. \ 



post-office inspector of New York; was prominent in 

 V. M. C. A. As secretary an >f New 



York Society for Suppression of Vice and post-office 

 inspector, has brought about 2,800 criminals to JUMICO 

 and destroyed ninety tons of obn . 

 pictures. etc. Author: .unhliiig 



Outrages," "Morals vs. A f->r the Young." 



( onde, I Dill! ! ll..iirl-n. P.m.. of. 



-4 after the death of lUnn II., and, 

 together with t'ohitny. became the.r leader d,.- 

 re,nof('h.-ui, was wounded at I 



battle of St. Deny* (1607), and was killed at 



chief part in drawing up the Petition of Might. I he 



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 was the friend of D'AlemberiaiKl of almost I . 

 tH.rnrip*. an well an one of the di* 

 > B appointed governor of the dauphin 



