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Squadron, in 1829-'30; was attached to the 

 rendezvous at Boston in 1833 and 1834, and 

 was with the Pacific Squadron in 1840. He 

 received his commission as commodore July 

 16, 1862, and in 1864 and 1865 he was a prize 

 commissioner at Key West. Under the act of 

 1855, he was retired from the navy, having 

 been connected with it nearly sixty-four years. 



CASWELL, ALEXIS, D. D., LL. D., died at 

 Providence, R. I., January 8th, aged 78 years. 

 In 1822 he graduated from Brown Univer- 

 sity, and for a time was Professor of Lan- 

 guages in Columbia College, Washington. He 

 was Professor of Mathematics and Natural 

 Philosophy in Brown University from 1828 

 until 1850, and of Mathematics and Astron- 

 omy from 1850 until 1864. During 1840 he 

 was president pro tempore of the college, 

 and succeeded Barnas Sears, D. D., LL. D., to 

 the presidency, who resigned in 1867, he in 

 turn retiring in 1872. He was a member of 

 the Board of Fellows at the time of his death, 

 also a member of the Advisory Committee of 

 the Alumni. 



CHRISTIE, DANIEL M., was born at Antrim, 

 October 15, 1790, and died at Dover, N. H., in 

 January. He graduated at Dartmouth College 

 in 1815. After practising law in Berwick, 

 Me., he removed to Dover in 1823, where he 

 resided until his death. He held a seat in the 

 State Legislature during eleven sessions, being 

 elected to that body in 1826, and was a Presi- 

 dential elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1864. 

 He declined the office of Chief Justice of the 

 State, which was twice offered him. He was 

 a director of the Boston & Maine Railroad, 

 and held official positions in several banking 

 institutions. 



CLARKE, Dr. EDWARD H., died jn Boston, 

 November 30, aged 57. He graduated at Har- 

 vard College in 1841, and at the medical de- 

 partment of the University .of Pennsylvania 

 in 1846. From 1855 to 1872 he was Professor 

 of Materia Medica in the Harvard Medical 

 School. He prepared the articles on Materia 

 Medica in the new edition of the AMERICAN 

 CYCLOPAEDIA, and was the author of "Sex in 

 Education," which attracted wide attention. 



COBB, CARLOS, died at Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 September 16th, aged about 60 years. He was 

 admitted to the bar in Rochester, N. Y., where 

 he practised law for several years ; subse- 

 quently he was engaged on the survey of the 

 north shore of Lake Superior, and made a 

 geological report to the Canadian Govern- 

 ment. He entered into the produce commis- 

 sion business in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1848, and 

 removed to New York City in 1862, whore he 

 resumed the commission business. For sever- 

 al years he was a member of the Board of 

 Managers of the Exchange, and at one time 

 Chairman of the Committee on Grain of the 

 Produce Exchange. 



COFFIN, LEVI, died at Avondale, Ohio, Sep- 

 tember 16th, aged 75 years. He was a prom- 

 inent antislavery man, and was well known 

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in the ante J>ellum days as President of the 

 " Underground Railroad." 



COLT, JOHN, was born at Lynne, Conn,, June 

 12th, 1786, and died at Seabright, N. J.. July 

 8th. He was a son of Peter Colt, of Lynne, 

 Conn., and a cousin of Colonel Samuel Colt, the 

 revolver patentee. In 1812 he took charge of a 

 nail and rolling mill at Paterson, N. J., and in 

 1825 he started a factory for the manufacture 

 of cotton-duck, and for nearly thirty years he 

 supplied all the cloth for most American ves- 

 sels. He retired from business in 1867. 



CONRAD, TIMOTHT ABBOTT, a noted geolo- 

 gist, died in Trenton, N. J., August 8th, aged 

 74 years. He was a member of the Imperial 

 Society of Natural History of Moscow, and 

 was well known in Europe. Ho wrote " Fossil 

 Shells in the Tertiary Formations of the United 

 States," " The Paleontology of the Pacific Rail- 

 road Survey and of the Mexican Boundary Sur- 

 vey," and "Monography of the Urionidas of 

 the United States." 



CRANE, Rev. JONATHAN, died at Middletown, 

 N. Y., December 25th. He was born in Sche- 

 nectady, N. Y., and graduated from Union Col- 

 lege and the Auburn Theological Seminary. 

 He was settled for 19 years at Attleborougn, 

 Mass. ; for 3 years in New York as pastor of 

 the Twentieth Street Congregational Church ; 

 from 1860 to 1868 at Middletown, N. Y., over 

 the First Congregational Church; and after 

 serving 1 year at St. Joseph, Mo., and 5 years at 

 Kalamazoo, Mich., he was recalled to his old 

 pastorate at Middletown, where he remained 

 until his death. 



CRANSTON, HIRAM, was born in Stephen- 

 town, N. Y., September 13th, 1815, and died 

 in New York City, September 1 7th. He began 

 life by teaching school, and in 1836 became 

 clerk in the Troy House at Troy. In 1889 he 

 kept the Pacific Hotel in New York City, a 

 year later the Pavilion Hotel at Rockaway, and 

 later was connected with Davis, Brooks & Co., 

 now engaged in the management of California 

 steamers. In 1846, for a short period, ho 

 managed the Eutaw House in Baltimore, Md., 

 and from 1854 to 1867 was connected with the 

 New York Hotel, from which he retired for 

 10 years, when, having lost heavily in stocks, 

 he again took charge of that hotel. Mr. Cran- 

 ston's Southern sympathies cemented to him 

 a large Southern patronage, and the New York 

 Hotel was above all others the Southern Hotel 

 of the city. 



CROSBY, Dr. ALPHECS BENNINO, was born r.t 

 Gilmanton, N. H., February 22, 1832, and 

 died at Hanover, N. II., August 9th. In 1868 

 lie graduated from the academic department 

 of Dartmouth College, and from the medical 

 department in 1856, having been, the year pre- 

 vious, an assistant surgeon in the Marine Hos- 

 B'tal at Chelsea, Mass. He began practice at 

 anover, N. H., and became surgeon of the 

 First New Hampshire Volunteers in 1861, be- 

 ing promoted to brigade-surgeon. He served 

 at Ball's Bluff, at the second Bull Run. when, 



