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real estate business Philadelphia, Pa.
and
civil
engineering in
was a member
of the city council;
Corson, Mme. Caroline RoUin, translator, author, was born Dee. 29, 1828, in Paris, France, where she received her early education,
which
was
continued for six years in Germany. In 1854 she marHiram Dr. ried Corson, then conwith the nected
Smithsonian institute of Washington, D.C.; and is now professor em-
Faust;
on
reg-
He was the author of many lectures and poems; and wrote the poem for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Montgomery county in 1884. For two years he edited the Norristown Independent. Europe.
died in 1901 in Norristown, Pa. Corson, Hiram, educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1828; and received the degrees of LL.D. and Litt.D. In 1870-1903 he was pro-
He
fessor of English literature at Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y.; and since 1903 has
eritus of English literature in Cornell university. She was the author of on articles able
Goethe's
was
bankruptcy for Lehigh and Montgomery counties; and was a member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania of 1872 and 1873. He traveled extensively in ister in
Machiavelli;
been professor emerious publications, in the line of his professorship, are the follow-
Lamen-
nais; Victor Hugo, and others; and translated Paul Janet's Elements de Morale, and Pierre Janet's L'Etat Mental des Hysteriques; and other works. She had an extensive knowledge of modern languages and was a devoted Dante student. Dante goldmedal prize has been founded in her memory in Cornell university. She died May 21, 1901, in Ithaca, N.Y.
A
Corson, Dighton, lawyer, jurist, was born Somerset county, Maine. He was a member of the South Dakota constitutional convention. Since 1900 he has been presiding judge of the state supreme court of South in
Among his numer-
tus.
ing;
Handbook
glo-Saxon English;
of Anand Early
An
Introduc-
Study of The Robert Browning's Poetry; An Introduction to the Study of tion to the
Shakespeare;
English Verse, chiefly in
its
and organic character; The Aims of Literary Study; The Voice and Spiritual Education; and An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton. Corson, Juliet, instructor, author, was aesthetic
1842, in Boston, Mass. She of New York; and in 1876 founded the School of cooking. She was the author of Cooking Manual; Cooking
born Feb.
14,
was a cooking instructor
Dakota. Corson, Eugene Rollin, physician, author, was born July 20, 1855, in Washington, D. C. He received the degree of B.S. from Cor-
and received the degree of M.D. from the Southern medical college at
nell university;
Atlanta, Ga. He is a noted physician of Savannah, Ga. is on the staff of the Savannah hospital; and a member of the association of American anatomists. He is the author of Vital Equation and the Nego Race; and numerous anatomical and surgical Monographs. Corson, George Norman, soldier, lawyer,
lecturer, journalist, poet, was born on March 11, 1833, in Montgomery county, Pa. He received his education at
the ary
Freemont
semin-
Norristown, of and at the tJrsinus college of Collegeville, During the war he enlisted as a private soldier under the first issued by AbraLincoln in 1861 till term of enlistment expired. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar; and attained success in his profession at Norristown, Pa. He call
ham
School Text-Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six; Meals for the Million; Practical American Cookery; Family Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; and Diet for Invalids and Children. She died June 18, 1897, in New York City. Cortelyou, David H., soldier, business man, 30, 1841, in Richmond county, N.Y. He has been corporal, sergeant, sergent-major, lieutenant and captain in the sixth regiment New York cavalry; and in 1870 was retired as captain of the ninth United States cavalry. In 1873-75 he
was born Nov.
was county clerk of Richmond county, N. Y.
has been a justice and un1898 was clerk of
of the peace; til
the county and supreme court. He is now secretary of the Richmond insurance company, New York; and also vice-president of the Westerleigh building, loan and savings association of Richmond, N.Y.
