Frederic Hull Cogswell (1859)

Born 11 Mar 1859 in Washington, Conn

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FREDERIC HULL COGSWELL.

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Frederic Hull'^ Cogswell, {Egbert'^, Charles^, RcneP, Edzvard^\ Savmel^, Edward, Williarn^, William-, yoJin^), son of Egbert^ [1740] and Mary Eliza (Hull) Cogswell, was born March 11, 1859, in Wash- ington, Conn. He married, Sept. 12, 1882, Clara K. Wood, daughter of John and Maria (Allen) Wood. She was born June 22, 1857, in Bloomfield, Conn. They resided in New Haven, Conn.

THEIR ONLY CHILD WAS:

Olive Mary, [2476] b. June 26, 1883.

Frederic Hull Cogswell was reared on a farm. He attended thevillasre Academy, 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 1880. He then entered the Yale Law School, but completed his legal studies in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1882 he accepted a position in the editorial department of the New Haven Register. Later he devoted himself to phonographic report- ing, and in 1883 founded Cogswell's School of Phonography and Cali- GRAPH Institute, No. 289 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. He published a monthly, called The Elm City Phonographer. This was changed, Oct., 1883, to Cogswell's Phonographic Quarterly. There was issued from the pub- lishing house of S. C. Andrews, Ann Arbor, Mich,, a book of Select Quota- tions, edited by Mr. Cogswell. Later in life he devoted himself excliisively to the practice of his profession.

Mrs. Mary Eliza {Hull) Cogs7vell, 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 Jeffer- son, Vid. Life of Gen, William Hull, by Rev. jfames Freeman Clarke,

D. D., Boston, Mass.

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