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Henry Cockton

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COCKTON, HENRY English humorous novel ist, was born in London Dec. 7 1807, and died at Bury St.

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cucaracha: in America it is com monly abbreviated to "roach." Edmund's June 26 1853. He is best known as the author of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist and Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist (1844).