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Craig, Robert H – Cramer, Michael John

Craig, Robert H

actor, artist, author, was born March 24, 1842, in New York city. He had talent as a painter, and was the author of burlesques on Don Juan, Faust, Hamlet, and Camille. He died Dec. 8, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo.

Craig, Samuel Alfred

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1839, in Brookville, Pa. He was commissioned captain in the veteran reserve corps, United States army, and served continuously four years and three months. He was elected district attorney; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

Craig, William

artist, was born in 1829 in Dublin, Ireland. Toward the end of his life he painted rapidly, and so his later works were Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga; On the Hudson (1870); Hudson River near West Point (1871); and Falls on the Boquet River. He died in 1875 in New York.

Craige, Burton

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 13, 1811, in Rowan county, N. C. He was a member of the state legislature in 1832 and 1834; and was elected to the thirty-third, thirty-fourth. thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died Dec. 30, 1875, in Concord, N. C.

Craik, James

physician, was born in 1731 in Ireland. During the revolutionary war Dr. Craik served in the medical department, and rose to the first rank. After the war he removed to the neighborhood of Mount Vernon at Washington's request, and attended him in his last illness. He died Feb. 6, 1814, in Fairfax county, Va.

Craik, William

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1796 to 1801.

Crain, William H

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1848, in Galveston, Tex. He settled at Cuero, Tex.; and in 1872 was elected district attorney for the twenty-third judicial district of Texas. In 1876 he was elected a state senator; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.

Cralle, Richard K

author, was born in South Carolina. He was previously an editor and Swedenborgian clergyman in Washington. He published Works of John C. Calhoun, with a memoir, in six volumes; and several polemical works on new church doctrines. He died June 10, 1864, in Virginia.

Cram, Ralph Adams

architect, author, poet, was born in 1863 in New Hampshire. He is an architect of Boston, and the author of The Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and White, a book of ghost stories; and In the Island of Avalon, a book of poems.

Cram, Thomas Jefferson

soldier, was born about 1807 in New Hampshire.

In 1866 he was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army for his services during the civil war. After this he served on boards of engineers for the improvement of harbors on the great lakes, and on Feb. 22, 1869, was retired.

He died Dec. 20, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Cramer, John

state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1779, in Waterford, N. Y. He was a presidential elector in 1805; served three years in the assembly, and three years in the senate of the state of New York. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1821; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1837. He died June 1, 1870, in Waterford, N. Y.

Cramer, Michael John

clergyman, diplomat, was born Feb. 6, 1835, in Switzerland. He was chaplain in the United States army from 1864 to 1867; and in the latter year he was appointed United States consul at Leipsic, Germany.

In 1870 he was appointed United States minister to Denmark; in 1881 was transferred in a like capacity to the republic of Switzerland.