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Crandall, Lucian Stephen

inventor, was born May 4, 1844, in New York. He invented the Crandall typewriter; and in 1886 he organized the Parish Manufacturing company of Parish, N. Y., and began the manufacture of the American Standard and Victoria. They were all eventually superseded by the International, which is his most original and best work.

CRANDALL, ORESTES AUGUSTUS, lawyer, financier, author, was born Feb. 25, 1833, near Syracuse, N. Y. He moved to Illinois in infancy with his father; learned the wagonmaker's trade; and subsequently became a prominent member of the Missouri bar.

In 1868 and in 1872 he was a member of the Missouri democratic state executive committee; and in 1868 was a candidate for state senator. In 1880 he organized the Missouri Trust company, at Sedalia, Mo., and is still its president. In 1897 he was appointed by the governor of Missouri a member of the board of managers of the state geological bureau. His chief literary works are a book on Money, and several monographs on scientific subjects.