COBB, HENRY IVES

(1859), b. at Brook line, Ma . Was. educatd at private and public schools and at the Ma achusetts Institute of Tech.; S.B. Harvard, 1880. He entered an architect’s office in Boston and in 1881 went to Chicago where he established a practice. Was architect for the Chicago Opera House, New berry Library, the University of Chicago, the Church of the Atonement and many other prominent buildings in Chicago and other cities. Was one of the National Board of Architects of the Chicago Exposition in 1893 and from then until 1903 was a special architect for the U.S. Government and designed many of the government buildings at Chicago, League Island and Anna polis. Was also the architect of the American University at Washington. American politician, 6. in Jefferson County, Ga. Graduating from Franklin College, in 1834, he practiced law, was elected to Congre in 1855 and was Secretary of the Treasury in President Buchanon’s Cabinet., Shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned, joined the Confederacy and was President of the congre which drafted the constitution of the Confederate States. Antagonism between him and Jefferson Davis compelled his retirement, after which he was for a while commander of a Confederate army corps, without, however, seeing any active service. He wrote A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery, 1859. (1876), an American author, b. in Paducah, Ky. He received his education in the public schools of his native city and then went into journalism, at first as a shorthand reporter. At the age of nineteen he was editor of The Paducah Daily News. His humorous items and articles won him quick recognition, and in 1904 he was in New York writing for several of the foremost daily papers. In 1911 he became connected with the Saturday Evening Post, through which he has gained his widest audience. This publication he represented in Europe during the greater part of the World War. Among the many books he has had published are Back Home, 1912; Europe Revised, 1914; The Abandoned Farmers, 1920; One Third Off, 1921, and Sundry Accounts, 1922. He has also written a number of plays, most of them in collaboration with prominent playwrights. Eng. politician; served in army, 1784-91; in 1792 went to Philadelphia, where he attacked Amer, institutions, for which he was fined; returned to England,, 1800; imprisoned, 1809-11, for protesting against flogging of militia; was elected M.P. for Oldham in 1830, and again 1834; broke down in health and d. next year; wrote works on history and politics, and contributed extensively to periodicals; a good stylist and vigorous controversialist.