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=Caswall, Henry.= _E._, 1810-1870. An Episcopal clergyman of English
birth, but ordained in the United States, where the most of his life
was spent. He lived for a time in England, however, and was a prebend
of Salisbury. An Epitome of the History of the American Episcopal
Church (1836); Didascalus, or The Teacher; Mormonism and its Author;
The Jerusalem Chamber, or Convocation and its Possibilities; The
Californian Crusoe, a Tale of Mormonism; Scotland and the Scottish
Church; The Western World Revisited; The Martyr of the Pongas; The
American Church and the American Union, include the majority of his
writings.
=Caswell, Alexis.= _Ms._, 1799-1877. A Baptist clergyman and educator;
for 35 years a professor at Brown University, and its president,
1868-72. Lectures on Astronomy; Meteorological Observations.
=Cathcart, William.= _I._, 1826- ----. A Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia. The Baptists and the American Revolution; The Papal
System; The Baptism of the Ages and the Nations; The Baptist
Encyclopædia.
=Catherwood, Mrs. Mary [Hartwell].= _O._, 1847-1902. A writer of
Hoopeston, Illinois, whose historical romances dealing with the early
days of Canada and the Northwest are as notable for their careful
attention to historical details as for their graphic and picturesque
style. A Woman in Armour; The Lady of Fort St. John; The Romance of
Dollard; Story of Tonty; Old Kaskaskia; The Chase of St. Castin, and
Other Tales; The Spirit of an Illinois Town; The White Islander, a
story of Mackinac; Craque o’ Doom. Her books for young people include
Old Caravan Days; The Dogberry Bunch; Rocky Fork; The Secrets of
Roseladies. _Cent. Hou. Lip. Lo. Mg._
=Catlin, George.= _Pa._, 1796-1872. An artist who spent many years
among the Indians. Notes of Eight Years in Europe; Illustrations of the
Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Notes
for the Emigrant to America; Life among the Indians, a Book for Youth;
The Breath of Life, or Mal-Respiration and its Effects; O-Kee-Pa, a
Religious Ceremony, and other Customs of the Mandans; Last Rambles
Among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains; The Lifted and Subsided Rocks
of America. _See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists._
=Catlin, George Lynde.= _S. I._, 1840-1896. A journalist and diplomat,
consul at Limoges, Stuttgart, and Zurich. Bilbigheim, a story; The
Presidential Campaign of 1896, written in 1888; Titbits for Travellers;
The Postilion of Nagold and Other Poems. _Fu._
=Caton, John Dean.= _N. Y._, 1812-1895. A jurist of Chicago. A Summer
in Norway; The Last of the Illinois and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies;
The Antelope and the Deer of America; Miscellanies, Speeches, and
Essays.
=Caulkins, Frances Mainwaring.= _Ct._, 1796-1869. A local historian of
Connecticut. A History of Norwich; A History of New London.
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