284 
Chase, Salmon P., g2, 106, 108, 112, 
168. 
Church, Frederick, 25, 26. 
Civil War, 3, 14, 30, 87, 93, 94, 95, 
103-112, 121, 124, 125, 139, 183, 185, 
195, 213, 247, 264. 
Clarendon, Lord, 39, 194. 
Clark, Latimer and Edwin, 119, 137, 
155, 156, 168, 274. 
Cleveland, President 
252. 
Cobden, Richard, 101, 102, 185, 188, 
189, 191, 274. 
Cockran, Bourke, 276. 
Colfax, Schuyler, 205-209. 
Collins, Perry McDonough, 115, 116, 
216, 221. 
Columbia College, 14. 
Common Council of New York, 168, 
169. 
Congress, U. S., 29, 41, 93, 115, 169, 
231. (Also see Senate, U. S.) 
Conkling, Roscoe, 227. 
Constantine, Grand Duke, of Russia, 
216, 220, 221. 
Cooper, Peter, 31, 32, 37, 41, 84, 86, 
127, 164, 195, 198, 212, 219, 242, 
273. 
Cornell, Ezra, 34, 227. 
Crimean War, 35, 49, 54. 
Croton Aqueduct, New York, 22. 
Cunard Line, 39, 274. 
Cyprus, 229, 230. 
Grover, 245, 
Deane, John C., 137, 140, 141, 142, 
143, 177- 
Derby, Lord, 158, 173. 
Dickinson, Submit, wife of the Rev- 
erend David Dudley Field, 5, 6, 10, 
16, 17, 18, 26, 200. 
Disraeli, Benjamin, 232. 
Dix, General John A., 124, 195, 199, 
227. 
Doane, George Washington, Bishop 
of New Jersey, 71. 
Douglas, Senator Stephen, 42, 44. 
Drew, Daniel, 227. 
Dudley, Robert, artist, 126, 139, 140. 
274. 
Dwight, Timothy, 4. 
INDEX 
Eardley, Sir Culling, 52, 101. 
Edwards, Jonathan, 4, 6. 
Elevated Railway in New York, 237- 
245, 251, 265-271. 
Erie Canal, 10, 13, 15, 235. 
Erie Railroad, 6, 145. 
Evarts, William M., 2, 232. 
Everett, Edward, 183, 184. 
Everett, William E., 54, 60. 
Evening Express, The New York, 258. 
Evening Post, The New York, 15, 62, 
180. 
Fairbairn, William, 119. 
Faraday, Michael, 28, 38, 47, 48, 83, 
123. 
Farragut, Admiral David G., 168. 
Field, British Columbia railway 
station, 262. 
Field, Alice, daughter of Cyrus 
Field, 108, 109, 110, 111, 276. 
Field, Cyrus West, hero of the North 
Atlantic, born, 3; ancestry, 4; 
family, 5-9; boyhood, 10-12; ar- 
rives in New York, 16; marries, 21; 
moves to Gramercy Park and re- 
tires from business, 24; gets idea 
of Atlantic cable, 31; failure off 
Newfoundland, 38; gets help from 
Congress, 41; starts laying cable off 
Ireland, 48; failure, 53; another 
start, 57; the cable laid, 61; ac- 
claimed as hero, 68-76; failure, 78; 
meets Gladstone, 96; tries another 
cable, 121; failure again, 190; tries 
once more, 134; succeeds, 143; 
awarded medal by Congress, 169- 
171; feted in London, 189-195; as- 
sists settlement of Alabama claims, 
201-212; argues for Pacific cables, 
216-225; goes to Iceland, 233; 
promotes elevated railways, 238; 
honors André, 248; helps Garfield 
family, 255; buys newspaper, 258; 
loses fortune, 267-271; overcome by 
tragedies, 275; dies, 276; buried at 
birthplace, 277. 
Field, Cyrus William, younger son of 
Cyrus Field, 261. 
