lished in the "Ladies' Repository," a few days before her own death. She had seemingly enjoyed robust health till her sister's death; but her constitution, weakened by intense sorrow, was shattered by exposure to malarial influences, and she did not rally from the intensity of the attack, though removed to Newport in the hope that a change of air and cheerful surroundings might prove beneficent. Of the volume of “Poems of Alice and Phœbe Cary” (Philadelphia, 1850), only about one third were written by Phœbe. Her independently published books are “Poems and Parodies” (Boston, 1854); “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love” (1868); and a large share of the “Hymns for all Christians,” edited by Charles F. Deems (1869). See “Memorial of Alice and Phœbe Cary,” by Mary Glemmer Ames (New York, 1873).
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CARY, Annie Louise, singer, b. in Wayne, Kennebec co., Me., 22 Oct., 1842. She is a daughter of Dr. Nelson Howard Cary and his wife, Maria Stockbridge. After an early education in the common schools, she attended the female seminary at Gorham, Me., and was graduated in 1862. In 1866, her natural gifts as a singer becoming evident, she went to Italy and studied in Milan with Giovanni Corsi until January, 1868. Thence she went to Copenhagen, and, under the direction of Achille Lorini, made her first appearance in Italian opera as a profundo contralto singer. During the succeeding winter and spring she continued to sing in Copenhagen and in Gothenburg and Christiania. The following summer was spent at Baden-Baden in study with Madame Viardot-Garcia, and in the autumn she began an engagement for Italian opera at Stockholm under the direction of Ferdinand Strakosch. After two months she engaged to sing at the Royal Swedish opera, and sang her part in Italian to the Swedish of the other artists. The following summer she spent in Paris, studying with Signor Bottesini, the famous contra-bassist. In the autumn she went to Brussels to sing in Italian opera, and there made a contract with Messrs. Maurice and Max Strakosch for three years in the United States. In the winter of 1869-70 she studied in Paris, and during the spring in London with Mr. Henry C. Deacon, and sang at Drury Lane theatre under the direction of Manager Wood. She returned to America in September, 1870, to make her début, in concert at Steinway hall, New York, with Nilsson, Vieuxtemps, and Brignoli. For twelve years from that time she was constantly engaged for opera or concerts, appearing with Carlotta Patti, Mario, Albani, and others in America, until the winter of 1875-'6, when she visited Moscow and St. Petersburg, and repeated the tour in the following winter. Returning to America for the seasons of 1877-'8 and 1878-'9, she sang in opera with Clara Louise Kellogg and Marie Rose, under the management of director Strakosch. The three seasons following were given to opera with the Mapleson company, and to concerts and festivals in great variety. During the most active part of her professional career she sang at all the festivals given in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Worcester. She also sang frequently in oratorio, and regularly participated in the concerts of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) philharmonic society. Miss Cary was always a favorite with the American public, and, though she harvested abundant honors wherever she went in foreign lands, she always seemed especially to value the plaudits of her own people. On 29 June, 1882, she married Charles Monson Raymond, of New York city. Since then she has sung only in private and for charity, though she occasionally assists the choir at the church where, with her husband, she is a regular attendant.
CARY, Archibald, patriot, b. in Virginia about
1730; d. at Ampthill, in September, 1786. He early
became a member of the house of burgesses. Prior
to 1760 he undertook to revive the iron-works on
Falling creek, Va., established by Col. William
Byrd, and operated them with pig-iron imported
from Maryland; but the enterprise was abandoned
as unprofitable. In 1764 he served on the
committee that reported the address to the king, lords,
and commons. In 1773 he was one of the committee
of correspondence, and he was a member of the
convention of 1776. As chairman of the committee
of the whole he reported the resolutions
instructing the Virginia delegates in congress to
propose independence. On the organization of the
state government he was returned to the senate,
where he presided until his death. He was
descended from Henry, Lord Hunsdon, and at the
time of his death was heir-apparent of the barony.
He was a man of singular courage and intrepidity,
short in stature, but of remarkably prepossessing
appearance. The title of “colonel” is commonly
prefixed to his name.
CARY, John, colored servant of Gen. Washington,
b. in Westmoreland co., Va., in August, 1729;
d. in Washington, D. C., 2 June, 1843. He was
with his master in the old French war at Braddock's
defeat, and accompanied him through the
revolutionary struggle.
CARY, Lott, negro slave, b. in Charles City
co., Va., in 1780; d. in Monrovia, Africa, 8 Nov.,
1828. In 1804 he was sent to Richmond, and hired
out as a common laborer. Gifted with a high
order of native intelligence, he soon taught himself,
with slight assistance, to read and write, and, having
a remarkable memory and sense of order, he
became one of the best shipping-clerks in the Richmond
tobacco warehouses. Until 1807 he was an
unbeliever, but during that year became converted
to Christianity, and was ever afterward a leader
among the Baptists of his own color. In 1813 he
purchased his own freedom and that of his two
children for $850. As a freeman he maintained
his habits of industry and economy, and when the
colonization scheme was organized had accumulated
a sum sufficiently large to enable him to pay
his own expenses as a member of the colony sent
out to the African coast in 1822. He was with
the colony during its early wars with the barbarous
natives, and rendered invaluable services as a
counsellor, physician, and pator. He was elected
vice-agent of the colonization society in 1826, and during
the absence of Mr. Ashmun, the agent, acted
in his place. On the evening of 8 Nov., 1828, he
was making cartridges in anticipation of an attack
from slave-traders, when an accidental explosion
fatally injured him and seven of his companions.
CARY, Samuel Fenton, congressman, b. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 Feb., 1814. He was graduated at Miami university in 1835, at the Cincinnati law-school in 1837, and began practice, but retired in 1845 and became a farmer. He was elected to
