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=Cooper, William.= _Ms._, 1694-1743. A once famous Congregational
minister of Boston. Tract Defending Inoculation for the Small Pox,
1720; The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life.
=Cope, Edward Drinker.= _Pa._, 1840-1897. A noted Philadelphia
naturalist. Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North
America; Primary Groups of Batrachia Anura; Systematic Relations of the
Fishes; Vertebrate Palæontology of New Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of
the West; The Origin of the Fittest, include the more important of his
writings. _Ap._
=Cope, Gilbert.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A genealogist of Pennsylvania.
Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy of the
Dutton Family; Genealogy of the Sharpless Family; History of Chester
County, Pennsylvania.
=Coppée, Henry.= _Ga._, 1821-1895. A prominent educator, president of
Lehigh University, 1866-75, and professor there until his death. During
the Mexican War he served as an officer in the American army. His
most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab
Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached at the close
of Irving’s “Mahomet and his Successors.” His other works comprise
Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns;
Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; Manual of Court
Martial. _Lit._
=Copway, George=, or =Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh=. _Mch._, 1818-_c._ 1869. An
Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a journalist in New York City, and
was well known as a lecturer. Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway’s
“American Indian;” The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The
Ojibway Conquest, a poem; Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe,
include the most of his writings.
=Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Fairfield].= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A
Chicago writer of fiction and other works. Rebecca; His Marriage Vow;
Belle and the Boys; A Woman’s Philosophy of Love, a psychological
treatise. _Le._
=Corbin, John.= _Il._, 1870- ----. Son of Mrs. Corbin, _supra_. The
Elizabethan Hamlet. _Scr._
=Cornelius, Elias.= _N. Y._, 1794-1852. A missionary to the Cherokee
Indians who wrote The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative.
=Cornell, Alonzo Barton.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A governor of New York,
1880-83, and a son of the founder of Cornell University. His only
publication is True and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell: a Filial
Tribute. _Bar._
=Cornell, John Henry.= _N. Y._, 1828-1894. A musician and organist of
New York City. Primer of Modern Musical Tonality; Practice of Sight
Singing; Easy Method of Modulation; Theory and Practice of Musical
Form; A Manual of Roman Chant; Congregational Tune Book.
=Cornell, William Mason.= _Ms._, 1802-1895. A physician of Boston
and elsewhere. Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools; Life of
Horace Greeley; Grammar of the English Language; Consumption Prevented;
Treatise on Epilepsy; History of Pennsylvania, include the most of his
writings. _Fu. Lo._
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