WILLIAM BOURKE COCKRAN, one of the most eloquent men in public life during the latter years of the Nineteenth Century, was born in Ireland. He is a natural politician, and New York City sent him to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. In 1892 he made a stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention in opposition to the nomination of Mr. Cleveland for the Presidency, and this gave him national fame. Gifted with a striking presence, and a superb voice, Mr. Cockran has, in addition, a flow of language excelled by few. while his command of words and expressions calculated to enthuse audiences is remarkable. He is (1901) in his forty-seventh year. (36)

ROBERT COLLYER is one of the most influential preachers and pulpit orators in the United States. He wielded the hammer for some time at the forge of a blacksmith's shop before he entered the ministry, but felt he was out of place there. Mr. Collyer is one of the handsomest of men, a giant in stature, well proportioned and possessing a pleasant face. He was born in England in 1822. Even at his age (1901) he can wield a sledge in a manner which plainly shows his hand has not lost its cunning. Honest, outspoken and generous to his opponents, his pleasing personality makes him a welcome guest anywhere and everywhere. (37)

PETER COOPER, philanthropist, humanitarian and business man, was born in New York in 1791, and lived there all his life. He died there in 1883. His earliest great and successful business enterprise was the making of glue, and in 1828 he purchased three thousand acres of land within the corporate limits of Baltimore whereon he erected the Canton Iron Works. This was the first of his mammoth enterprises tending toward the development and growth of the iron and steel industries of the United States. He constructed the first locomotive ever run in this country and built most of the Baltimore and Ohio track; set up iron and steel mills in various cities, was largely instrumental in laying the first Atlantic cable, founded Cooper Union, gave liberally for the promotion of knowledge among the people. (38)

SHELBY M. CULLOM, who has been four times chosen by the Legislature of Illinois to represent the State in the United States Senate, has been in public life nearly fifty years. His startling resemblance to President Abraham Lincoln makes him an object of curious attention. He has been a member of the House of Representatives in three Congresses, served twice as Governor of the State of Illincis, was a member of the Illinois Legislature several times, has been a delegate to many Republican National Conventions and had the honor of placing General Grant in nomination for the Presidency in 1872 at the Philadelphia Convention of that year. Senator Cullom is the father of the Inter-State Commerce Law, and is one of the ablest and most practical men in the United States Senate. He was born in Kentucky in 1829. (39)

CHARLES ANDERSON DANA, journalist, author, Assistant Secretary of War with Stanton during the Civil War, and, all told, one of the most brilliant men the United States ever knew, was associated with Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune from 1848 to 1862. Later he removed to Chicago and published the Republican, but, having lost everything in the great fire of 1871, returned to New York and became editor of the Sun. He was born in New Hampshire in 1819, and died in New York City in 1897. General Grant objected to the presence of Assistant Secretary of War Dana at Army Headquarters in the field, and it was said this was the reason for Dana's bitter feeling toward the "Old Commander." (40)