Cogswell is a surname, derived from the town of
Coggeshall
Coggeshall ( or ) is a small town in Essex, England, between Colchester and Braintree on the Roman road Stane Street and the River Blackwater. It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by Henry III.
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in Essex.
Notable people with the surname include:
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A. E. Cogswell
Arthur Edward Cogswell (1858, Peterborough – 1934, Portsmouth) was an English architect, particularly active in the Portsmouth area. He was an architect who, although not well known nationally, left a strong mark on the appearance of Portsmo ...
, British architect
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Alice Cogswell
Alice Cogswell (August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
Cogswell and Gallaudet
At the age of two, Cogswell became il ...
, deaf American
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Bryce Cogswell
Windows Sysinternals is a website that offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment. Originally, the Sysinternals website (formerly known as ntinternals) was created in 19 ...
, computer expert
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Fred Cogswell
Fred Cogswell CM (November 8, 1917 – June 20, 2004) was a Canadian poet.
Life and career
Born in East Centreville, New Brunswick he served overseas in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. A teacher at the age of sixteen, Cogswell gai ...
, Canadian poet
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Henry D. Cogswell
Henry Daniel Cogswell (March 3, 1820 – July 8, 1900) was an American dentist and a crusader in the temperance movement. Cogswell and his wife Caroline also founded Cogswell College in San Jose, California. Henry Cogswell College, Another campus ...
, dentist
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Henry Hezekiah Cogswell
Henry Hezekiah Cogswell (April 12, 1776 – November 9, 1854) was a lawyer, political figure and philanthropist in Nova Scotia. He represented the town of Halifax in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1818 to 1820. He was president of t ...
, (1776-1854) Nova Scotia lawyer
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John Cogswell
John Cogswell (1592–1669) was a leading figure and large landowner in the early history of Ipswich, Massachusetts and a deputy for the General Court of Massachusetts. He is the immigrant ancestor to a large number of notable Americans.
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, early American colonist
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Joseph Cogswell
Joseph Green Cogswell (September 27, 1786 – November 26, 1871) was an American librarian, bibliographer and an innovative educator.
Education
Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Cogswell received a grammar school education in Ipswich, and attend ...
, 19th-century bibliographer and educator
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Mason Fitch Cogswell
Mason Fitch Cogswell (28 September 1761 – 17 December 1830) was a United States physician.
Biography
Cogswell was born on 28 September 1761 in Canterbury, Connecticut, the third son of the Reverend James Cogswell and Alice Fitch. His mother di ...
, American physician
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Sue Cogswell
Sue Cogswell (born 7 September 1951 in Birmingham) is a retired squash player from England. She was runner-up at the 1979 Women's World Open Squash Championship, where she lost in the final to the Australian player Heather McKay 6–9, 9–3, 9 ...
, English squash player
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Theodore Cogswell
Theodore Rose Cogswell (March 10, 1918 – February 3, 1987) was an American science fiction author. Profile
During the Spanish Civil War, Cogswell served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
His ear ...
, American science fiction author
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William F. Cogswell (1819–1903), American portrait painter
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English toponymic surnames