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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cobb , Jonathan Holmes 1799 -1882 (search)
Cobb, Jonathan Holmes 1799-1882
Manufacturer; born in Sharon, Mass., July 8, 1799; graduated at Harvard College in 1817; and was one of the first to introduce the manufacture of silk in the United States.
In 1831 he published Manual of the Mulberry-tree and the culture of silk. Two years later Congress ordered 2,000 copies of this work for public distribution to promote the cultivation of mulberry-trees.
In 1835 Mr. Cobb became superintendent of the first silk-manufacturing company organized in New England.
He died in Dedham, Mass., March 12, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cobbett , William 1762 -1835 (search)
Coffee, John 1772-
Surveyor; born in Nottaway county, Va., in 1772.
In December, 1812, he was colonel of Tennessee volunteers under Jackson, and was with him
John Coffee. in all his wars with the Creek Indians.
He was with him also in his expedition to Pensacola (q. v.), and in the defence of New Orleans.
In 1817 he was surveyor of public lands.
He died near Florence, Ala., July 7, 1833.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffin , Joshua 1792 -1864 (search)
Coffin, Joshua 1792-1864
Antiquarian; born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 12, 1792; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817; an earnest abolitionist; helped to establish the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832; published The history of ancient Newbury.
He died in Newbury, Mass., June 24, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coles , Edward 1786 -1868 (search)
Coles, Edward 1786-1868
Governor; born in Albemarle county, Va., Dec. 15, 1786; graduated at William and Mary College in 1807; went to Russia on a confidential diplomatic mission for the United States government in 1817.
He removed to Edwardsville, Ill., in 1819, and freed all the slaves which he had inherited, giving to the head of each family 160 acres of land.
He was governor of Illinois from 1823 to 1826, and during his term of office he prevented the slavery party from obtaining control of the State.
Later he settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and in 1856 read a History of the ordinance of 1787 before the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 7, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corliss , George Henry 1817 -1888 (search)
Corliss, George Henry 1817-1888
Inventor; born in Easton, N. Y., June 2, 1817; was educated in Castleton, Vt.; settled in Providence, R. I., in 1844.
After several minor inventions he became famous by perfecting the great engine which bears his name, and is now known the world over.
At the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876, a single Corliss engine, of 1,400 horse-power, ran all the machinery in Machinery Hall.
Eminent engineers predicted that the great engine, which weighed over 700 tons, would cause much noise and trouble, but it proved a smoothrunning and complete success.
He died in Providence, R. I., Feb. 21, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crittenden , John Jordon 1787 - (search)
Crittenden, John Jordon 1787-
Statesman; born in Woodford county, Ky., Sept. 10, 1787; was aide-de-camp to Governor Shelby at the battle of the Thames; became a lawyer; entered the Kentucky legislature in 1816, and was speaker several years, and was first a member of the United States Senate in 1817-19.
From 1835 to 1841 he was again in the Senate, when President Harrison called him to his cabinet as Attorney-General.
He was again in the Senate from 1842 to 1848, when he was elected governor of his State, which post he held when President Fillmore appointed him Attorney-General in 1850. Mr. Crittenden was one of the most useful and trustworthy of the members of the national legislature, and was regarded as the patriarch of the Senate.
In the session of 1860-61 he introduced the Crittenden compromise, which substantially proposed: 1.
To re-establish the line fixed in the Missouri compromise (q. v.) as the boundary-line between free and slave territory; that Congress should by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Croghan , George 1746 -1782 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curtin , Andrew Gregg 1817 -1894 (search)
Curtin, Andrew Gregg 1817-1894
War governor; born in Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1817; was an active lawyer and politician, and governor of his native State when the Civil War broke out. He had been secretary of state from 1855 to 1858, and superintendent of common schools in 1860.
Andrew Gregg Curtin. He was re-elected governor in 1863; was minister to Russia in 1869-72, and Democratic Congressman in 1880-86.
He died in Bellefonte, Oct. 7, 1894.