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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

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She has played the leading parts The Wild Rose; Forty-five Minutes from Broadway; and other plays. Cams, Paul, journalist, author, was born July 18, 1852, in Germany. He is editor of the Open Court and the Monist of CJhicago. He is the author of The Ethical Problem; Fundamental Problems; The Soul of Man; Everall.

J.

in

Primer of Philosophy; Science, a Religious Revelation; The Gospel of Buddha; Karma; Homilies of Science; The Idea of God; and Buddhism and Its Christian Critics. Caruth, Asher Graham, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1844, in Scottsville, Ky. In 1873-80 he was attorney of the board of trustees of the public schools of Louisville; in 1880 was elected commonwealth's attorney for the ninth judicial district

of Kentucky,

and was

re-elected

in

In 1887-95 he was a representative from Kentucky to the fiftieth, fifty-first, 1886.

fifty-second and fifty-third congresses.

Caruth, George William, lawyer, diplomat,

was born March 7, 1843, in Scottsville, Ky. He was appointed attorney-general of the United States by Abraham Lincoln. In 1863 he began the practice of law and continued until 1877. Since 1893 he has been envoy to

Portugal. Caruthers, Eli Washington, clergyman, historian, was born on Oct. 33, 1793, in Rowan county, N.C. He became pastor of Buffalo and Allemance churches in 1820. He was the author of Life of David Caldwell; and two volumes of Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Characters, Chiefly in the Old North State. He died on Nov. 14, 1865, in

ernor of Plymouth Colony in 1620-31. He re-elected in 1631 at the beginning of a civil year, but died suddenly a month afterward. He died April 5, 1621, in Plymouth, Mass. Carver, Jonathan, traveler, author, was born in 1733 in Stillwater, N.Y. He was of an adventurous disposition, and traveled through the interior parts of North America. He was the author of a work entitled Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America. He died Jan. 31, 1780, in London, Carver, Thomas Nixon, educator, author, was born March 25, 1865, in Kirkville, Iowa. In 1894-1900 he was a professor of economics in Oberlin college; and since 1900 has been professor of the political economy in Harvard university. He is the author of The Distribution of Wealth; and Sociology and Social Progress. Cary, Albigence Waldo, inventor, was born May 23, 1801, in Coventry, R.I. He was the inventor of Gary's rotary force-pump, which was used on the first steam fire-engine in the United States, in reconstructing the southern railway after the civil war and in the mines of California. He died Aug. 30, 1863, in Brockport, N.Y. Cary, Alice, author, poet, was born April

was new

26, 1830, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was an Ohio writer who come with her sister Phoebe to New York City in 1852; and as a poet

and novelist became prominent in literary circles in

weekly

North Carolina.

the sisters were attended by artists and

Caruthers, Robert i^ooney, soldier, lawyer,

congressman, was born July 31, 1800, in Smith county, Tenn. In 1834 he was elected a brigadier-general of militia; was a member of the Tennessee state legislature in 1835; and was a presidential elector in 1845, declining to run for governor. In 1841-43 he was a representative from Tennessee to the twenty-seventh congress, declining a re-election; and in 1853 was called to a seat on the supreme bench of Tennessee. He was a delegate to the peace convention of 1861. He died Oct. 4, 1882, in Lebanon, Tenn. Caruthers, Samuel, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1820, in Madison county, Mo. in 1853-59 he was a representative from Missouri to the thirty-third, thirtyfourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died July 30, 1860, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Carvalho, David Nunes, handwriting expert, inventor, was born Sept. 29, 1848, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1876 he has been a handwriting expert; and in 1881-1907 was official grand jury expert of New York City. He is the author of Forty Centuries in Ink. Carver, Henry Ladd, soldier, was bom in New York. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the civil war. He died Aug. 9, 1893. Carver, John, colonial governor, was bom aibout 1590 in England. He was the first gov-

that city. The receptions of

jurist,

by writers for many years. Her poetical works include Lyra, and Other Poems; A Lover's Diary; and also Ballads, Lyrics, and

Hvmns

Early and Late Poems, with Phoebe

Her other works are Clovernook, a book of the type of Miss Mitford's Our VilCary.

lage; Pictures of Country Life; the novels are Hagar; The Bishop's Son; Married, not Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile From Year

A

Remembrance. She died Feb. 12, 1871, in New York City. Cary, Annie Louise, musician, singer, was born Oct. 23, 1842, in Wayne, Maine. During the most active part of her professional cato

and

Year;

Token

of

reer she sang at all the festivals given in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago and

Worcester. In 1883 she was married to Charles Monson Raymond of New York City; and has since sung only in private and for charity.

Edward,

journalist, author, was 1840, in Albany, N.Y. He is on the editorial staff of the Times of New York City. He is the author of Life of

Cary,

born June

5,

George William Curtis.