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CODY, Wyo., village and county-seat of Park County, situated on the Shoshone River at the northwest terminus of the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy Railroad. It takes its name from its founder, Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and was incorporated in 1900. It is at the eastern entrance to Yellowstone Park, with which it is connected by a boulevard of 55 miles. Farming by irrigation and cattle and stock raising are the chief industries of the section. The town is well known to tourists. Pop. about 1,800.

COE, Edward Benton, American clergy man : b. Milford, Conn., 11 June 1842; d. New York, 19 March 1914. He was graduated at Yale 1862, studied at Union Theological Sem inary 1862-63 and in France and Germany 1864 67. From 1864 to 1879 he was Street professor of modern languages at Yale, and on 2 Oot. 1879 was ordained by the Cla.ssis of New York as one of the ininisters , of the Collegiate Re formed Dutch Church. He was pastor of the Fifth Avenue and West 48th Street Church till January 1899, when he becatne senior minister without charge of a specific congregation. He published a number of sermons and a volume, entitled 'Life Indeed' (1899).

COE, George Albert, American educator: b. Monroe County, N. Y., 26 March 1862. He was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1884; Studied theology at Boston University and in Berlin; was professor of philosophy in the University of Southern California 18M-. 93;

and Evans professor of philosophy in North. western University 1893-1909. Since 1909 he has been professor of practical theology in Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is a member of the Religious Education Society of America and was its president in 1909-10. He is the author of (The Spiritual Life : Studies in the Science of Religion) (1900) ; (The Re ligion of a Mature Mind' (1902) ; (Education in Religion and Morals) (1904), and contribu tions to various philosophical and theological magazines.

COE, Wesley Roswell, American biologist . b. Middlefield, Conn., 11 Nov. 1869. He was, educated at the Connecticut Agricultural Col lege and at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University and at the universities of Wiirzburg. and Naples. In 1892-95 he was assistant in biology at the Sheffield Scientific School, in 1896-1902 instructor, in 1902-08 as sistant professor of comparative anatomy, and in 1909 professor of biology at Yale University. He accompanied the Harnman expedition to Alaska in 1899. He has published 'The Nemer teans) (1901) ; 'The Nemerteans of Porto Rico' (1901); 'The Nemerteans of the Hawai ian Islands) (1906) ; 'Echinoderms of Con necticut) (1912).