Part 12

=Clarke, MacDonald.= _Ct._, 1798-1842. An eccentric, unbalanced verse-writer of New York city, who was commonly styled “the Mad Poet.” Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; Review of the Eve of Eternity.

=Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard [Devereux].= _N. C._, 1822-1886. A writer of Raleigh, North Carolina, who has published Reminiscences of Cuba; Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.

=Clarke, Rebecca Sophia.= “Sophie May.” _Me._, 1833- ----. A popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend’s Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; The Doctor’s Daughter. _Le._

=Clarke, Richard Henry.= _D. C._, 1827- ----. A noted Roman Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States.

=Clay, Cassius Marcellus.= _Ky._, 1810-1903. A Kentucky congressman noted as a strong opponent of slavery, who was minister to Russia 1861-69. _See Life and Memoirs, compiled by Himself._

=Clay, Henry.= _Va._, 1777-1852. A Kentucky statesman and orator, who was in public life for half a century, and was several times an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency. He is known in literature by his Speeches, several collections of which were published in his lifetime. _See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by G. D. Prentice, 1831; Swaim, 1843; Mallory, 1844; Sargent and Greeley, 1852; Colton, 1857; Carl Schurz, 1887._

=Cleaveland, John.= _Ct._, 1722-1799. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts. The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ’s Sacrifice and Atonement against Aspersions cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter of Reproof; Treatise on Infant Baptism.

=Cleaveland, Nehemiah.= _Ms._, 1796-1877. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, _supra_. An educator of Massachusetts, who published a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates, 1806-79, edited and completed by A. S. Packard, _infra_.

=Cleaveland, Parker.= _Ms_., 1780-1858. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, _supra_. A professor in Bowdoin College, 1805-58, whose Mineralogy and Geology, 1816, gained for him the title of “the father of American mineralogy.”

=Cleland, Thomas.= _Va._, 1778-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kentucky, much inclined to controversy, who published Letters on Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; Unitarianism Unmasked.

=Clemens, Jeremiah.= _Al._, 1814-1865. An Alabama statesman who won some notice as a novelist. Bernard Lyle; Mustang Gray; The Rivals, a Tale of the Times of Burr and Hamilton; Tobias Wilson, a Tale of the Great Rebellion.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne.= “Mark Twain.” _Mo._, 1835- ----. A celebrated humourist, who, after an eventful experience as a journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humourous travels, which still remains his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are, A Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner, _infra_); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd’nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and the Pauper; Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being his most finished production. _See Haweis’s American Humourists; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Vedder’s American Writers._

=Clemens, Will Montgomery.= _O._, 1860- ----. A Ken of Kipling; Life of Roosevelt; Famous Funny Fellows; Sixty and Six; Mistakes of Authors.

=Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine.= _See Waters, Mrs._

=Clemmer, Mrs. Mary.= _See Hudson, Mrs._

=Cleveland, Aaron.= _Ct._, 1744-1815. A verse-writer who late in life became a Congregational minister. He was the great-grandfather of President Cleveland. The Philosopher and Boy; Slavery Considered, both productions in verse.

=Cleveland, Charles Dexter.= _Ms._, 1802-1869. Grandson of A. Cleveland, _supra_. An educator of Philadelphia, who published Compendiums of English, American, and Classical Literature; English Literature of the 19th Century; critical edition of Milton, with notes and life. _Bar._

=Cleveland, Cynthia Eloise.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Washington writer employed in the civil service. See Saw, or Civil Service in the Departments, a political novel; Is it Fate?

=Cleveland, Henry Russell.= _Ms._, 1808-1843. Son of R. J. Cleveland, _infra_. The Classical Education of Boys; Life of Henry Hudson.

=Cleveland, Horace William Shaler.= _Ms._, 1814-1900. Son of R. J. Cleveland, _infra_. A noted landscape gardener of Minneapolis. Hints to Riflemen; Landscape Architecture; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator. _Har._

=Cleveland, Richard Jeffry.= _Ms._, 1773-1860. Cousin of A. Cleveland, _supra_. Voyages and Commercial Enterprises; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past.

=Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. Great-granddaughter of A. Cleveland, _supra_, and the only sister of President Cleveland. During the first year of her brother’s first administration she was the mistress of the White House. George Eliot’s Poetry and Other Studies; The Long Run, a novel. _Fu._

=Clevenger, Shobal Vail.= _Iy._, 1843- ----. A physician of Chicago, and son of the noted sculptor of the same name. Treatise on Government Surveying; Comparative Physiology and Psychology; Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and Sciences Useful to the Artist.

=Clifford, Nathan.= _N. H._, 1803-1881. A noted jurist of Maine, who was attorney-general during Polk’s administration, and published United States Circuit Court Reports.

=Clingman, Thomas Lanier.= _N. C._, 1812-1897. A North Carolina congressman who served during the Civil War as brigadier-general in the Confederate army. The two Carolina mountains, Clingman’s Peak and Clingman’s Dome, were named in his honour, he having been the first to measure their height. Speeches; Follies of the Positivist Philosophers.

=Clinton, De Witt.= _N. Y._, 1769-1828. A famous statesman and politician of New York state. Memoir of Antiquities of Western New York; Natural History and Internal Revenues of New York; Speeches to the Legislature. _See Lives, by Hosack, 1829; Renwick, 1840; Campbell, 1849._

=Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria [Dietz].= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A New York writer, once an actress; for some time president of the woman’s club of New York, Sorosis. She has written three volumes of verse: The Triumph of Love; The Triumph of Time; The Triumph of Life.

=Clymer, Meredith.= _Pa._, 1817-1902. A distinguished physician and medical writer of New York city. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.

=Coan, Titus.= _Ct._, 1801-1882. A missionary of note in the Sandwich Islands who wrote Life in Hawaii; Adventures in Patagonia. _Do. Ran._

=Coan, Titus Munson.= _H. I._, 1836- ----. Son of T. Coan, _supra_. A New York littérateur. Ounces of Prevention; Topics of the Times (edited).

=Cobb, Cyrus.= _Ms._, 1834-1903. Son of S. Cobb, 1st, _infra_. An artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing much occasional verse, published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.

=Cobb, Howell.= _Ga._, 1795-18--. A Georgia lawyer. Penal Code of Georgia.

=Cobb, Jonathan Holmes.= _Ms._, 1799-1882. A manufacturer of Dedham, who founded the silk industry in the United States, and whose Manual of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk was once well known.

=Cobb, Joseph Beckham.= _Ga._, 1819-1858. A Southern author whose writings include The Creole, or the Siege of New Orleans, a novel; Mississippi Scenes; Leisure Labours.

=Cobb, Lyman.= _Ms._, _c._ 1800-1864. A once prominent educator who, besides many text-books on spelling and mathematics, published The Evil Tendency of Corporal Punishment; Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language. _Har._

=Cobb, Sylvanus.= _Me._, 1799-1866. A Universalist clergyman of Massachusetts, editor for many years of The Christian Freeman. The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes; Compend of Divinity; Discussions. _See Autobiography, and Memoir by his son, S. Cobb, 1867._

=Cobb, Sylvanus.= _Me._, 1823-1887. Son of S. Cobb, _supra_. A prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value. Among them are The King’s Talisman; The Patriot Cruiser; Ben Hamed.

=Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes.= _Ga._, 1823-1862. A Georgia lawyer who served as brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg. Digest of the Laws of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest Periods; Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States.

=Cobbett, Thomas.= _E._, 1608-1685. A nonconformist English clergyman who came to America in 1637, and was minister at Ipswich from 1656 till his death. Infant Baptism; Civil Magistrate’s Power in Matters of Religion; Practical Discourse of Prayer; The Honour due from Children to their Parents.

=Cocke= [cōke], =James Richard.= _Tn._, 1863-1900. A physician of Boston. Hypnotism; Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel. _Ar. Le._

=Cocke, Zitella.= _Al._, _c._ 1847- ----. A verse-writer whose contributions to periodicals have been collected in a volume of verse entitled A Doric Reed. _Cop._

=Cocker, William Johnson.= _E._, 1846- ----. An educator of Michigan. Handbook of Punctuation; The Government of the United States. _Har._

=Coddington, William.= _E._, 1601-1678. The first governor of Rhode Island. Demonstrations of True Love unto the Rulers of Massachusetts.

=Codman, John.= _Ms._, 1782-1847. A Congregational clergyman of Dorchester. Sermons; Visit to England. _See Memoir, by W. A. Allen, 1853._

=Codman, John.= _Ms._, 1814-1900. Son of J. Codman, _supra_. A noted captain in the merchant marine. Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns; Ten Months in Brazil; The Mormon Country; The Round Trip by Way of Panama; A Solution of the Mormon Problem; Winter Sketches from the Saddle.

=Coffin, Charles Carleton.= _N. H._, 1823-1896. A Boston journalist who became famous as the war correspondent of the Boston Journal during the Civil War, over the signature “Carleton.” His writings, mainly though not exclusively for young people, include My Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a narrative of personal experience; Following the Flag; Winning his Way; Building the Nation; Old Times in the Colonies; The Boys of ’76; The Story of Liberty; The Drumbeat of the Nation; Marching to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; Freedom Triumphant; Abraham Lincoln; Our New Way Round the World; Daughters of the Revolution. _See Life of, by Griffis._ _Est. Har. Hou._

=Coffin, Isaac Foster.= _Me._, 1787-1861. An educator of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Journal of a Residence in Chili during the revolutionary scenes of 1817-19.

=Coffin, James Henry.= _Ms._, 1806-1873. A meteorologist who was professor of astronomy at Lafayette College. Solar and Lunar Eclipses Illustrated and Explained; Winds of the Northern Hemisphere; Psychometrical Table; Orbit and Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball; Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Winds of the Globe. See Life, _by J. C. Clyde, 1882._

=Coffin, John Huntington Crane.= _Me._, 1815-1890. A mathematician of distinction. Observations with the Mural Circle at the United States Naval Observatory; The Compass; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.

=Coffin, Joshua.= _Ms._, 1792-1864. A Massachusetts antiquary prominent among the abolitionists, and one of the poet Whittier’s early instructors. He published a History of Ancient Newbury; The Toppans of Toppan’s Lane, a genealogy.

=Coffin, Robert Allen.= _Ms._, 1801-1878. Brother of J. H. Coffin, _supra_. An instructor in western Massachusetts. Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Town Organization; History of Conway, Massachusetts.

=Coffin, Robert Barry.= “Barry Gray.” _N. Y._, 1826-1886. A New York journalist and littérateur, whose books, popular at one time, are now nearly forgotten. Their humour is somewhat forced, and the style has no very marked merits. Matrimonial Infelicities; Who is the Heir?; Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; The Home of Cooper.

=Coffin, Robert Stevenson.= _Me._, 1797-1827. A verse-writer of Boston who published The Oriental Harp; Poems of the Boston Bard. _See Autobiography, 1825._

=Coffin, Roland Folger.= _N. Y._, 1826-1888. A marine reporter in New York city. An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s Cup; History of American Yachting. _Fu. Scr._

=Coffin, Selden Jennings.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. Son of J. H. Coffin, _supra_. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy at Lafayette College in 1873, and completed the latter’s Winds of the Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette.

=Coggeshall, George.= _Ct._, 1784-_c._ 1850. A sea captain of some prominence as a writer. Voyages to Various Parts of the World, 1799-1844; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque during our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; Religious and Miscellaneous Poetry.

=Coggeshall, William Turner.= _Pa._, 1824-1867. A journalist of Cincinnati, whose principal writings include Signs of the Times, a work on spirit rappings; Home Hits and Hints; Stories of Frontier Adventure.

=Cogswell, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1782-1864. A noted Congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey. The Necessity of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; Godliness a Great Mystery; The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit. _See E. O. Jameson’s Cogswells of America._

=Cogswell, William.= _N. H._, 1787-1850. A Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire, among whose works are, Manual of Theology and Devotion; Assistant to Family Religion; Christian Philanthropist; Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millennium; Letters to Young Men Preparing for the Ministry.

=Cohen, Jacob Da Silva Solis.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Philadelphia physician and medical lecturer of prominence. Treatise on Inhalations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup in its Relations to Tracheotomy; The Throat and the Voice.

=Coit, James Milnor.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. An instructor in chemistry at St. Paul’s School, Concord. Elements of Chemical Arithmetic; Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis.

=Coit, Thomas Winthrop.= _Ct._, 1803-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1872 to 1885. Necessity of Preaching Doctrine; Theological Commonplace Book; Puritanism in New England and the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England.

=Colburn, Warren.= _Ms._, 1793-1833. A noted mathematician of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was translated into many languages. _Hou._

=Colburn, Zerah.= _N. Y._, 1832-1870. A nephew of the famous calculator of the same name. He was a well-known mechanical engineer who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat and its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.; Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. _Bai. Vn._

=Colby, Frederick Myron.= _N. H._, 1848- ----. A journalist of New Hampshire. The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.

=Colden, Cadwallader.= _S._, 1688-1776. A colonial physician, lieutenant-governor of the province of New York, 1761-76, and a prominent loyalist of his day. The History of the Five Indian Nations is his chief work. Among his many lesser writings is Principles of Actions on Matter. =See Tyler’s American Literature.=

=Colden, Cadwallader David.= _L. I._, 1769-1834. Nephew of C. Colden, _supra._ A commercial lawyer of prominence in New York who published Life of Robert Fulton; Vindication of the Steamboat Right granted by the State of New York.

=Coleman, Leighton.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Delaware. The Church in America, a history of the American Episcopal Church.

=Coleman, Lyman.= _Ms._, 1796-1882. A Congregational clergyman who was a classical professor at Lafayette College, 1861-82. Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible; Text-Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; Genealogy of the Lyman Family.

=Coles, Abraham.= _N. J._, 1813-1891. A New Jersey physician who published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; The Psalms in Verse, with notes. _See Biographical Sketch, edited by J. A. Coles, 1892._ _Ap._

=Coles, George.= _E._, 1792-1858. A Methodist clergyman who published The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the Scriptures; Heroines of Methodism.

=Colesworthy, Daniel Clement.= _Me._, 1810-1893. A once noted bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for children, like “Don’t Kill the Birds” and “Little Words of Kindness,” have been extremely popular. Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children, and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; A Day in the Woods, in verse, comprise the most of his writings.

=Collens, Thomas Wharton.= _La._, 1812-1879. A well-known jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of the Labour Movement; The Eden of Labour.

=Collier, Mrs. Ada [Langworthy].= _Ia._, 1843- ----. A writer of Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of not a little merit.

=Collier, Joseph Avery.= _Ms._, 1828-1864. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Kingston, New York. The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied to the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; Dawn of Heaven.

=Collier, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1835-1896. A chemist of distinction for several years attached to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Sorghum, its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered; Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant. _Clke_.

=Collier, Robert Laird.= _Md._, 1837-1890. A Unitarian clergyman who in his later years was a London correspondent of the New York Herald. Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism; English Home Life. _A. U. A. Hou. Rob._

=Collier, Thomas Stephens.= _N. Y._, 1842-1893. A physician and poet whose home was at New London, Connecticut. Song Spray, a collection of poems, 1889.

=Collins, Charles.= _Me._, 1813-1875. A Methodist preacher and educator of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism Compared.

=Collyer, Robert.= _E._, 1823- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of New York, and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith. He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a Unitarian, and in 1860 founded Unity Church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor till he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within and without the Unitarian body, has been very great. The Life That Now Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire. _Dut. Le._

=Colman, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1673-1747. A famous Congregational minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far more polished and flexible. Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. _See Life by E. Turell, 1749; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Colman, Henry.= _Ms._, 1785-1849. An agricultural writer of Massachusetts, who was a Congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a Unitarian minister at Salem. Report on Silk Culture; European Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; European Life and Manners.

=Colton, Calvin.= _Ms._, 1789-1857. An Episcopal clergyman of some note in his day as a political writer. Manual for Emigrants to America; History of American Revivals; Protestant Jesuitism; Public Economy for the United States, a plea for protection; Life of Henry Clay; Junius Tracts.

=Colton, George Hooker.= _N. Y._, 1818-1847. A verse-writer whose Tecumseh is a poem as ambitious in conception as it is mediocre in execution.

=Colton, Walter.= _Vt._, 1797-1851. Brother of C. Colton, _supra_. A journalist and educator who established the first newspaper in California, and built the first schoolhouse there. As chaplain in the United States navy he visited many parts of the world. Visit to Athens and Constantinople; Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Ægean; Ship and Shore; Deck and Port; The Sea and the Sailor.

=Colwell, Stephen.= _Va._, 1800-1871. An iron merchant of Philadelphia, who wrote much on current topics, especially matters relating to political economy. Ways and Means of Commercial Payment; Money on Account; Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United States; Domestic Production and Internal Trade; Hints to Laymen; Charity and the Clergy; Politics for American Christians; New Themes for Protestant Clergy, include the more important of his writings.

=Coman, Katherine.= _O._, 1857- ----. A professor of history at Wellesley College. Outlines in Constitutional History of England; Outlines in Industrial History; The Growth of the English Nation.

=Comegys, Benjamin Bartis.= _Del._, 1819-1901. A banker of Philadelphia. Tour Round My Library, and Other Papers; Advice to Young Men and Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with Boys and Girls; How to Get On, a Book for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An Order of Worship; Old Stories with New Lessons. _Hou. Rev._

=Comfort, Mrs. Anna [Manning].= _N. J._, 1845- ----. Wife of G. F. Comfort, _infra_. A physician of Syracuse, who has written Woman’s Education and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. Clarke’s once famous Sex in Education.

=Comfort, George Fisk.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A professor at Syracuse University since 1872. He has published a series of German text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland. _Har._

=Comly, John.= _Pa._, 1774-1850. A Pennsylvania educator among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. _See Journal of John Comly of Ryberry, 1853._

=Comstock= [kŭm´stŏk], =Cyrus Ballou.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A colonel of the Engineer Corps in the United States army, and brevet major-general of U. S. Volunteers, who has made a number of important government surveys. Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of the Northwestern Lakes; Primary Triangulation of United States Lake Survey.