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Crawford, Francis Marion

author, was born Aug. 2, 1854, in Italy. He is the author of Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone's Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio's Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant' Ilario; A Cigarette-Maker's Romance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; and Taquisara.

CRAWFORD, GEORGE WASHING- TON, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 22, 1798, in Columbia county, Ga. In 1827 he was elected attorney-general, and continued in that office until 1831. He was in the state legislature from 1837 to 1842; and in 1843 was elected to congress to fill a vacancy. He was elected governor of the state in 1843, and re-elected in 1845. He was a member of President Taylor's cabinet as secretary of war. He died July 22, 1872, in Richmond county, Ga.