=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._