Cowles
WILLIAM SHEFFIELD, an American rear-admiral, born in Farmington, Conn., in 1846. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1867, and rising through the various grades, became lieutenant-commander in 1892, commander in 1899, captain in 1902, and rear-admiral in 1908. Besides seeing service in all the principal stations, he acted as naval attaché at London, and as naval aide to the Secretary ary of the Navy. He was chief of the Bureau of Equip ment, and a member of the Board of Construction in 1906. In 1908 he retired from active service. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1916, and during the World War served as an officer of the Home Guard of Connecticut.
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Cowley
ABRAHAM, an English poet and essayist; born in London ondon in 1618. Well educated and high in royal favor, he was a fashionable and fortunate poet till the Civil War made havoc of royal favorites. His volumes, "The Mistress," "Poems," various Vergilian elegies and anacreontic love songs, and his essays, were set in the first rank by contemporaries. The first collection of his works, in one volume, appeared in 1668. He died in Chertsey, Surrey, July 28, 1667. COW PARSNIP (so called because the plant is good fodder for cows), Heracleum sphondylium, or any other species of the genus.
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Cowpea
a summer annual, in appearance resembling the field bean. The cowpea is a native of India and possibly of China. In the East it has been under cultivation for the last two thousand years. In the cotton belt of the United States , the cowpea takes the place of the red clover of more northern and cooler regions. The leaf of the cowpea is tri-foliate. The flowers vary from purple to white. The pods are from five to ten inches in length and are well filled with kidney-shaped or roundish peas. There are numerous varieties. Several, known as crowders, are so called because the beans are crowded together so closely as to have flattened ends. So far as frost is concerned, the cowpea is very tender. Along the Gulf seed is sown in April. In Delaware it is sown as late as July. Like clover and alfalfa, the roots of the cowpea bear tubercles that store up nitrogen. The raising of a crop of cowpeas fertilizes the soil. The crop is cured like a crop of clover or alfalfa. Stacks of cowpea hay have little power to turn rain. The crop, therefore, requires barns or other protection.
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Cowpens
a battlefield near the northern border of South Carolina , not far from King's Mountain. It was covered with timber and undergrowth. General Morgan, with 900 men, January 17, 1781, took position on two knolls, with his rear on the Broad River so that his militia could not run away. Tarleton, the famous cavalry commander of Cornwallis, attacked with 1,100 men. The American militia deployed in front, used their rifles with good effect, and drew away into shelter. Tarleton, thinking the day was his, sounded a charge straight for the river. He was met by a central force of American riflemen, good for a squirrel's head at a hundred paces. The militia under Andrew Pickens reformed in shelter of a hill and fell on one flank; the American cavalry under William Washington fell on the other. Altogether they made short work of the British. Two hundred and seventy were killed and wounded; 600 were taken prisoners; and over 1,000 muskets were captured. Only twelve Americans were killed. Tarleton fled with a handful of followers. The defeat, coming so soon after King's Mountain, was a severe blow to Cornwallis, and encouraged the American patriots greatly. See Cornwallis
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Cowper
WILLIAM, an English poet; born in Berkhampstead, Nov. 15, 1731; was the great-nephew of the Lord- Chancellor Cowper. After completing his education, his family procured him the place of clerk to the House of Lords, but his nervousness and constitutional timidity were such that he was obliged to resign it. He now fell into so terrible a state of nervous debility that he was for some time placed in the lunatic asylum of Dr. Cotton. The skill and humanity of that gentleman restored him, and he retired to Huntingdon. Here he became acquainted with the family of the Unwins; and after Mr. Unwin's death he removed with Mrs. Unwin to Olney, Buckinghamshire. His natural melancholy colored his religious views and feelings, and he fell ofter. into the most painful despondency, but continued to write. In addition to translating Homer, he wrote "The Task," the best of all of his poems; "Tirocinium"; a host of smaller works; and his correspondence exhibits him as one of the most elegant of English letter-writers. He died in Norfolk, April 25, 1800.
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Cox
JACOB DOLSON, an American soldier; born in Montreal, Oct. 27, 1828; was graduated at Oberlin in 1851, becoming a lawyer; but upon the outbreak of the Civil War was made Brigadier-General of Ohio Volunteers. In 1862 he became Major-General of United States Volunteers, and in 1864 commanded a division at Nashville. He was elected governor of Ohio in 1865, and in 1869 became Secretary of the Interior in President Grant's cabinet. He died in Magnolia, Mass., Aug. 4, 1900.
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Cox (III)
SAMUEL SULLIVAN, an American statesman and author; born in Zanesville, O., Sept. 30, 1824. He served some terms in Congress, and became minister to Turkey. His works are: "Eight Years in Congress," "Why Diplomat We Laugh,' gh," "Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey," "A Buckeye Abroad," "Arctic Sunbeams," "Orient Sunbeams," "Free Land and Free Trade," and others. He died in New York, Sept. 10, 1889.
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Cox (ISAAC JOSLIN an Americaning)
ISAAC JOSLIN, an Americaning educator, born in West Creck, Ocean co., N. J., in 1873. He graduated from Dartmouth College, engaged in research work in Mexico for several years and took post - graduate studies at the University of Texas and the University of Chicago. After serving on the faculties of several colleges and universities he be came professor of history of Northwestern University in 1919. He was a member of many historical societies and the author of "The Journeys of La Salle and His Companions" (1905); "The Early Exploration of Louisiana" (1906); "The West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813" (1918). He contributed historical articles to several encyclopædias, and in 1919 was a member of the Doheny Research Foundation in Mexico.
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