BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Biographical Memoirs
of
Wyandot County, Ohio
To Which is Appended
A Comprehensive Compendium of National Biography - Memoirs
of Eminent Men and Women in the United States,
Whose Deeds of Valor or Works of Merit
Have Made Their Names Imperishable.
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ILLUSTRATED
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Embellished with Portraits of Many National Characters and
Well Know Residents of Wyandot County, Ohio
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Published
Logansport, Ind.
B. F. Bowen, Publisher.
1902
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THOMAS
McINTYRE COOLEY, an eminent American jurist
and law writer, was born in Attica, New York, Jan. 6, 1824. He
was admitted to the bar in 1846, and four years later was appointed
reporter of the supreme court of Michigan, which office he continued
to hold for seven years. In the meantime, in 1859, he became
professor of the law department of the University of Michigan, and
soon afterward was made dean of the faculty of that department.
In 1864 he was elected justice of the supreme court of Michigan, in
1867 became chief justice of that court, and in 1869 was re-elected
for a term of eight years. In 1881 he again joined the faculty
of the University of Michigan, assuming the professorship of
constitutional and administrative law. His works on these
branches have become standard, and he is recognized as authority on
this and related subjects. Upon the passage of the inter-state
commerce law in 1887 he became chairman of the commission and served
in that capacity four years.
Source: Biographical Memoirs of
Wyandot Co., Ohio - Published 1902 - Page 140 |
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JOHN SINGLETON
COPLEY, one of the two great painters who laid
the foundation of true American art, was born in Boston in 1737, one
year earlier than his great contemporary, Benjamin West.
His education was limited to the common schools of that time, and
his training in art he obtained by his own observation and
experiments solely. When he was about seventeen years old he
had mapped out his future, however, by choosing painting as his
profession. If he ever studied under any teacher in his early
efforts, we have no authentic account of it, and tradition credits
the young artist’s wonderful success entirely to his own talent and
untiring effort. It is almost incredible that at the age of
twenty-three years his income from his works aggregated fifteen
hundred dollars per annum, a very great sum in those days. In
1774 he went to Europe in search of material for study, which was so
rare in his native land. After some time spent in Italy he
finally took up his permanent residence in England. In 1783 he
was made a member of the Royal Academy, and later his son had the
high honor of becoming lord chancellor of England and Lord
Lyndhurst.
Many specimens of Copley's work are to be found
in the Memorial Hall at Harvard and in the Boston Museum, as well as
a few of the works upon which he modeled his style. Copley
was essentially a portrait painter, though his historical paintings
attained great celebrity, his masterpiece being his "Death of
Major Pierson,” though that distinction has by some been
given to his “Death of Chatham.” It is said that he never saw
a good picture until he was thirty-five years old, yet his portraits
prior to that period are regarded as rare specimens. He died
in 1815.
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Wyandot Co., Ohio - Published
1902 - Page 191 |
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