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Cooper (JAMES FENIMORE an American)

JAMES FENIMORE, an American novelist; born in Burlington, N. J., Sept. Sept. 15, 1789; studied at Yale College, and entered the American navy as a midshipman at the age of 16. In 1821 appeared the novel of "Precaution," but it was not till the production of the "Spy" and the "Pioneers" that he began to take a high place among contemporary novelists. The "Pilot," "Waterwitch," "Pathfinder," "Deerslayer," "Last of the Mohicans," and "Red Rover" are familiar names to the novel-reading public. After visiting Europe and serv- CALVIN COOLIDGE lican National Convention meeting in Chicago in June, 1920, and was elected on Nov. 4, 1920.

COOLIDGE, T(HOMAS), JEFFER- SON, an American diplomat, born in Boston in 1831. He graduated from Harvard University in 1850 and began business in the firm of Gardiner & Coolidge, East India merchants. He also took an active part in the development of railways in the West. He was president of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and other railroads. In 1892-1893 he was United States Minister to France, and in 1898-1899 he was a member of the Joint High Commission to adjust disputes between England and the United States. He gave the Jefferson Physical Research Laboratory to Harvard University.