Coldstream
a town of Berwickshire, Scotland, 15 miles S. W. of Berwick, on the Twe Tweed, over which there is a fine bridge by Smeaton (1766). At Coldstream was the famous ford by which Edward I. entered Scotland in 1296, and near which he met the Scottish nobles, to settle the dispute about the crown of Scotland. By this ford also the Scots invaded England in 1640. Being convenient as a border town, Coldstream, like Gretna Green and Lamberton tollbar near Berwick, was formerly celebrated for its clandestine marriages.
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Coldwater
a city and county-seat Coldwater river, Coldw of Branch co., Mich., Mich on and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, 156 miles E. of Chicago. The Coldwater river supplies power for an the various manufacturing establishments. It is the seat of the State School for Dependent Children, and has a park, two libraries, a high school, several newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 5,945; (1920) 6,114.
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Cole (THOMAS an American landscape)
THOMAS, an American landscape painter; born in Lancashire, England, Feb. 1, 1801. His father, a woolen manufacturer, came to the United States when Thomas was 18 years old, and settled in Steubenville, O. Thomas worked in his father's shop for two years, but the coming of a portrait-painter to the village made him wish to be an artist. After a few lessons he set to work to paint pictures, and traveled for a while painting portraits and landscapes. In New York, by hard work, he succeeded in becoming one of the best American landscape painters. He was enabled to go to Europe and study the old masters. Among his best pictures are the five called "The Course of Empire" and the four "The Voyage of Life." He died in Catskill, N. Y., February, 1848.
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Cole (TIMOTHY an English)
TIMOTHY, an English woodengraver; born in London, April 6, 1852. He early came to the United States, and established himself as an engraver, first in Chicago, and afterward in New York, where he pursued his calling with much success. In 1883 he went to Europe, and began a series of engravings from the old masters. A series of the old Italian masters was completed in 1892; of the Dutch-Flemish in 1896; of English, 1900; of old Spanish masters, 1902-1907; of French, 1910. From 1914 he was engaged on engravings of paintings in American galleries. He received first- 1893. He was author of "Notes on the Old Italian Masters" (1892); "Monograph on Lives of Dutch Masters" (1896); "Notes on English Masters" (1901).
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Cole-Wort
the common cultivated cabbage (Brassica oleracea); called also collet.
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Colenso
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) JOHN WILLIAM, an English clergyman; born in Cornwall, Jan. 24, 1814. In 1846 he was appointed rec- 24, tor of Forncett St. Mary, in the county of Norfolk, and 1854 first Bishop of Natal, South Africa. In the next year appeared his "Ten Weeks in Natal"; in 1861 his "Translation of the Epistle to the Romans Commented on from a Missionary Point of View"; and "A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Question of the Proper Treatment of Cases of Polygamy, as Found Already Existing in Converts from Heathenism." The outcry raised by his professional brethren against the "Letter" was sufficiently loud, but it was nothing to the tempest of disapprobation that burst forth in the following year (1862), when he published "The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined." The Bishop of Cape Town, the metropolitan Bishop, declared Colenso deposed from his see; but on an appeal to the Privy Council, in 1865, the deposition was pronounced null and void. Colenso wrote treatises on mathematics used as text-books. He died in Durban, Natal, June 20, 1883.
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Coleoptera
an order of insects which has been recognized since the days of Aristotle. The number of species enumerated by naturalists, and of which examples are gathered in museums, amounts to 100,000. The Coleoptera are sometimes collectively called beetles, and many of them are known as weevils, lady-bugs, etc. The glow-worm and the blistering-fly belong to this order.
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Coleridge (HARTLEY an English poet)
HARTLEY, an English poet and critic, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; born in Bristol, in 1796. From Oxford he went to London, and there published some exquisite sonnets in the "London Magazine." He inherited defects of character and will, and never realized the promise of his great talents. His writings in prose are "Biographia Borealis" (1833); "The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire" (1836); and a volume of "Essays and Marginalia." His brother Derwent published a biography and his poems. He died in 1849.
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Coleridge-Taylor
SAMUEL, an Anglo-African composer; born in London, Aug. 15, 1875. His father was a native of Sierra Leone and his mother He composed many an English woman. successful songs and waltzes and an operetta entitled "The Dream Lovers." He conducted orchestral concerts in several English cities, and made tours in the United States in 1904, 1906, and 1910. He died in 1912. COLESEED a name for a variety of cabbage (Brassica Napus), and its seed, which is made into oil-cake for feeding cattle.
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Colfax
SCHUYLER, an American statesman; born in New York, March 23, 23, 1823; removed in 1836 to Indiana. He was a delegate to the Whig 1852; was conventions of 1848 and elected to Congress in 1854 by the newly formed Republican party, and re-elected until 1869, being thrice chosen Speaker; and of the in 1868 United he was States elected, in vice Grant's - president first term. Implicated, unjustly, as he and his friends claimed, in the Credit Mobi- , he spent the relier charges of 1873 mainder of his life in political retirement. Died in Mankato, Minn., Jan. 13, 1885.
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Colgate University
an educational institution in Hamilton, N. Y.; organized in 1819, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 44; students, stu 599; volumes in the library, 85,000; income, $193,353; president, Elmer Burritt Bryan.
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