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FREDERIC HULL COGSWELL.
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Frederic Hull"' Cogswell, {Egbcrt'\ Charles", Rcnel'\ E(hvaul'\
Saimur", Edzvard"^, William''^, IVillicmr, jl'okn^), son of Egbert^ [1740]
and Mary Eliza (Hull) Cogswell, was born March ii, 1859, •" Washington,
Conn. He married, Sept. 12, 1882, Clara K. Wood, daughter
of John and Maria (Allen) Wood. She was born June 22, 1857, in
Bloonifield, Conn. They resided in New Haven, Conn.
Olive Mary, [2476] b. June 2^1, 1S.S3.
THEIR ONLY CHILD WAS :
]9togtapf)ftal.
Frederic Hull Cogswell was reared on a farm. He attended the village
Acadeni)-, and at fourteen he entered a store in Waterbury, Conn. He attended
State Normal School in 1877, taught school one year, entered in 1879 the
Connecticut Literary Institute in Suffield, from which he graduated in iSSo.
He then entered the Yale Law School, but completed his legal studies in Xww
Arbor, Mich. In 1882 he accepted a position in the editorial department of
the New Haven Register. Later he devoted himself to phonographic reporting,
and in 1883 founded Cogswell's School of Phg.vugraphy and Call
GRAPH Institute, No. 289 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. He published
a monthly, called The Elm City Phonographer. This was changed, Oct., 1S83.
to Cogswell's Phonographic Quarterly. There was issued from the pub-
lishing house of S. C. Andrews, Ann .Arbor, Midi., a book of Select Quoia-
tions, edited by Mr. Cogswell. Later in life he devoted himself exclusively
to the practice of his profession.
Mrs. Mary Eliza {Hull) Cogsiuell, Mr. Cogswell's mother, was a descendant
of Gen. William Hull of the Revolution, who was a college classmate at Yale,
and an intimate friend of Nathan Hale, the martyr spy. Gen. Hull was a
lawyer by profession, but entered the army as Captain, and rose rapidly to a
Brigadier-General. He was made Governor of Michigan by President Jefter-
soii. Vid. Life of Gen. William Hull, by Rri\ James Freeman Clarke,
D. D., Boston, Mass.
CHARLES HERBERT COGSWELL.
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Charles Herbert'" Cogswell, {Charles'^, Philander^, Ifocl',
Edivard'^', Samuel'-, Edward'^, Williani^, William", yohii^), son of