HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Cahill, Edward J., lawyer, statesman, was born Dec. 16, 1870, in Covington, Ky. He received the rudiments of his education in the
public schools of Carson City, Nevada; and then under private tuition. He began his career as a brakeman on a local railroad; and attained the position of railroad agent. He then read law; and since 1899 has been engaged in the practice of that profession. He is one of the prominent speakers in his state; and a possible candidate for congress in 1908. He is now district attorney for
Storey county, Nevada. Cahill, John H., lawyer, director, was born July 23, 1859, in Delanco, N.J. He is a noted lawyer of New York City; a member of the state and city bar associations; and a director of the Empire city subway company and a score of telephone and industrial companies. Cahill,
was
Juan
F., journalist, diplomat,' poet,
His writing are best known throughout Spanish-America. He is editor and proprietor of El Commercio del Valle, born.
published in St. Louis, Mo. Cahill, Le Roy, manufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Portage, Mich. He converted a common plow into a riding plow. He is the owner of a large manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo; and is president of the electric light company of that city. Cahill, Marie, actress, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the wife of D. V. Arthur of New York City. Her first appearance was in
Kathleen Mavoureen played in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1902 she starred in Molly Moonshine; and in 1906 created title role of Mary Mont-
gomery
in
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Cain, James William, educator, college president, was born Sept. 1, 1860, in New Haven, Conn. He began teaching in 1880; and in 1884-86 was principal in the academy of Lewiston, Pa. In 1886-1903 he was professor and in 1892-1903 vice-president of St. John's college of Annapolis, Md. Since 1903 he has been president of Washington college of Chestertown, Md. Cain, Richard H., clergyman, bishop, congressman, was born April 12, 1825, in Greenbrier county, Va. At an early age he was sent as a missionary to the freedmen in South Carolina. He was chosen a member of the constitutional convention of South Carolina; was elected a member of the state senate and served two years; and edited a newspaper from 1869. In 1873-75 and 187779 he was a representative from South Carolina to the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses as a republican. In 1880 he was chosen bishop by the general conference of the African methodist episcopal church. He died Jan. 18, 1887 in Washington, D.C.
Cain, William, mathematician, author, was May 14, 1847, in Hillsboro, N.C. He was a civil engineer for about eight years; professor of mathematics and engineering Care lina military institute; and now professor of mathematics in the university of North Carolina. He is the author of The Theory of Voussoir Arches; Solid
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and
Marrying Mary.
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Thaddeus, lawyer, inventor, was born in 1867 in Iowa. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar but never practiced. He has
Framed Bridges; Sym-
invented the electric typewriter, and the tel-
taining Walls; iheory of Steel-Concrete Arches and of Vaulted Structures; and A Brief Course in the Calculus. Caine, John T., educator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Isle of Man. He settled
Cahill,
harmony. Cahoon, William, lawyer, jurist lieutenantgovernor, congressman, was born in Vermont.
He was a presidential elector in 1809; in 1815-20 was a state councilor; was county judge for nine years; and lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1820-21. For seven years he was a member of the state legislature; and in 1829-33 he was a representative from Vermont to the twenty-first and twentysecond congresses. He died May 30, 1833, in Lyndon, Vt. Cahoone, J. Benjamin, naval officer, was born in 1800 in Rhode Island. He became pay-director; and finally retired with the relative rank of commodore in 1868 after serving for thirty-eight years with exemplary diligence and faithfulness. He died July 27, 1873 in New York City. Caille, Augustus, physician, author, was born April 1, 1854, in Madison, Ind. Since 1878 he has practiced medicine in New York City. He was a delegate to the international medical congress at Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease.
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in Utah in 1852; was secretary of the state legislative council in 1856-60; was a delegate to the constitutional conventions of 1872 and 1882; and served in the territorial coun-
and 1882. He was a the Deseret university in 1876-84; and was recorder of Salt Lake City in 187684. In 1881-93 he was a representative from Utah to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses. In 1896 he was a state senator. Caines, George, reporter, author, was born in 1771. He was a reporter of the New York supreme court. He was the author of LexMereatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors Forms of New York Supreme Court Summary of Practice in New York Supreme Court; Cases in the Court for Trial of Imcil
in 1874, 1876, 1880
regent
-of
peachments; and Reports.
N.Y.
He
New York Supreme
Court
died July 10, 1825, in Catskill,
