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Cravath, Erastus Milo

clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 1, 1833, in Homer, N. Y. He received his education at the Homer academy, Oberlin college, and the Theological seminary. He has been pastor of the congregational church of Berlin Heights, Ohio, and served as chaplain of the one hundred and first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry during the civil war. He has been the field agent, district secretary and general field secretary of the American Missionary association of New York. He has been eminently successful in all his labors, and is now the honored president of the Fisk university of Nashville, Tenn.

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