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=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.
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