ida County and Mayor of Utica. In 1859 he took his seat as a member
of the Thirty-Sixth Congress from New York, and remained a
Representative in Congress by successive re-elections until the 4th of
March, 1867, when he entered the United States Senate as the successor
of Ira Harris.--328, 330, 348, 363, 481, 513, 514.

JOHN CONNESS was born in Ireland in 1822, and came to America when
thirteen years of age. He was an early emigrant to California, where
he engaged in mercantile and mining pursuits. In 1852 he was elected
to the State Legislature, and served in that capacity for a series of
years. In 1863 he was elected United States Senator from California
for the term ending in 1869.--540.

BURTON C. COOK was born in Monroe County, New York, May 11, 1819. He
received a collegiate education, and entered upon the profession of
law in Illinois. After serving as State Attorney for six years, he was
elected to the State Senate in 1852, and was a member of that body
until 1860. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Illinois to
the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress.--223, 350, 351.

_EDMUND COOPER_ was born in Maury County, Tennessee. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School, and entered upon the practice of law at
Columbia, and afterwards at Shelbyville, Tennessee. He has served in
the Tennessee Legislature, and was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1865. In August, 1865, he was elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, but was not admitted
until near the close of the first session. While waiting at Washington
to be admitted to Congress, he acted as Private Secretary to President
Johnson. In November, 1867, he was appointed by the President to act
as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

EDGAR COWAN was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, September
19, 1815. He graduated at Franklin College, Ohio, in 1839. Having been
at different times clerk, boat-builder, schoolmaster, and student of
medicine, he studied law and practiced the profession until 1861, when
he was elected United States Senator from Pennsylvania for the term
ending 1867. He was succeeded by Simon Cameron.--96, 100, 133, 135,
195, 216, 273, 429, 460, 487, 489, 496, 535, 564.

AARON H. CRAGIN was born in Weston, Vermont, February 3, 1821. He
studied law in Albany, New York, and in 1847 removed to Lebanon, New
Hampshire, where he practiced his profession. From 1852 to 1855 he w