=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.