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HBRRINi^SHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

620 Cilley,

bom

Bradbury, congressman, was

Feb. 1, 1760, in Nottingham, N.H. In 1813-17 he was a representative from New nampshire, to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses. He was aide to Governor Gillman. He died Dec. 17, 1831, in Nottingham, N.H. Cilley, Bradbury Longfellow, educator, linguist, was born Sept. 6, 1838, in Nottingham, N.H. In 1859 he was elected professor of ancient languages in Phillips Exeter academy, where he taught Greek and latin. He was trustee of the Exeter public library; the Kensington social library; and the Union five-cents savings bank. He died March 31, 1809, in Exeter. Cilley, Jonathan, lawyer, congressman, was born July 2, 1803, in Nottingham, N.H. He was at one time speaker of the house of representatives of Maine, of which he was a member in 1832-37. He was a presidential elector in 1832. In 1837-38 he was a representative from Maine to the twenty-flfth congress. He died Feb. 24, 1838, in Bladensburg, Md. Cilley, Jonathan Prince, soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 29, 1835, in Thomaston, Maine. He attended the military

academy of Pembroke, N.H. in 1854 he graduated from the acad-

,

emy

at

N.-H.;

New Hampton, in

1858

from and

BoAvdoin college has since attained

prommence

as an eminent lawyer of Rockland, Maine. During the civil war he served in the first regiment

Maine cavalry, became captain,

of the

and

major, colonel, and brevet brigadier-general. He served as a member of the Maine state legislature, and in 1876-78 was adjutant-general of Maine. He is the author of a genealogy of the Cilley family; The Gamble Family; and The Mount Desert Widow. Cilley, Joseph, soldier, was born in 1735, ill Nottingham, N.H. He was a colonel in the first New Hampshire regiment in the revolutionary war; and was major-general of militia in 1786. He died Aug. 25, 1799, in

Nottingham, N.H. Cilley, Joseph, soldier, United States senator, was born Jan. 4, 1791, in Nottingham,

N.H. In 1812 he was appointed an ensign in the eleventh United States infantry; and in 1816 received the brevet of captain. In 1846-47 he was United States senator from New Hampshire. He died Sept. 16, 1887, in Nottingham, N.H. Cist, Charles, journalist, author,

He began

was

bom

the publication of The American Herald in 1784; and of the Columbian Magazine in 1786. He aided the colonial government during the revolution by endorsing large amounts of continental currency, which later he was

Aug.

15, 1738, in Russia.

compelled to redeem. He was the first person to introduce anthracite coal into general use in the United States; and in 1792 was a member of the Lehigh coal company. He died Dec. 2, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. Cist, Charles, journalist, author, was born April 24, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the editor of Cist's Advertiser in 1844-53; of three volumes of Annals of Cincinnati in 1841-51 and in 1859; and of a work entitled Cincinnati Miscellany. He died Sept. 8, 1868, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Henry Martyn, soldier, lawyer, auwas born Feb. 20, 1839, in Cincinnati,

Cist,

thor,

Ohio. He served in the federal army during the civil war; and became brigadier-general. He was the author of The Army of the Cumberland. He died Dec. 16, 1902, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cist, Lewis Jacob, banker, poet, was bom Nov. 20, 1818, in Harmony, Pa. He was known as a banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati. IJe was the author of Trifles in Verse; He died March 30, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Clabough, Harry M., lawyer, jurist. Since 1904 he has been chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Claflin, David, lawyer, jurist. He was judge of the supreme court of Alabama. He died Feb.

5,

1892, in

Montgomery, Ala.

Ira Wallace, soldier, was born in Vermont. He served in the civil war as a captain. He died Nov. 18, 1867. Claflin,

manufacturer, philanthropist, 19, 1791, in Hopkinton, Mass. He early established a shoe factory in Boston; and by his enterprise and industry accumulated a large fortune. Among those endowed by him were Wesleyan university, the Wilbraham academy, and the Boston theological seminary. He died Feb. 23, 1871, in Boston, Mass. Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin, author, was born in Massachusetts. She was the author of Brampton Sketches; Personal Recollections; and Under the Elms. She died in Claflin, Lee,

was born on Nov.

1896. Claflin, William, business ator, contfressman, governor,

man, state senwas born March Milford, Mass. He was a repre-

1818, in sentative in the legislature in 1849-52; a state senator in 1860-61; and the last year president of the senate. He was lieutenant6,

governor in 1866-69; twenty-sixth governor in 1870-72; and in 1877-81 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-

and forty-sixth congresses. He died in 1905 in Boston, Mass. Claggett, Clifton, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 3, 1763, in Portsmouth, N.H. He was judge of probate of Hillsborough county in 1823-27; judge of the superior court one or two years; and in 180305 and 1817-2] he was a representative from New Hampshire to the eighth, fifteenth and sixteenth congresses. He died Jan. 29, 1829. filth