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Crebs, John M – Crewson, Evander A

Crebs, John M

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 7, 1832, in London county, Va. In 1862 he entered the volunteer army as lieutenant-colonel; participated in all the Mississippi movements until the capture of Vicksburg, and was also in the Arkansas campaign, commanding a brigade of cavalry in the department of the gulf. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the forty-second congress.

Creede, Nicholas C

gold miner, was born April 4, 1842, in Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1862 he went to Colorado in search of adventure, and found it in seven years of service as a United States scout, holding the rank of first lieutenant. He has since become famous as the founder of the Creede mining camp in Colorado, together with quite a number of other flourishing camps.

Creely, John V

soldier, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the army as an officer of light artillery throughout the late rebellion. He was a member of the councils of Philadelphia for four years; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a republican.

Creery, William Rufus

educator, college president, author, was born May 9, 1824, in Baltimore, Md. He was elected city superintendent of public instruction of Baltimore for a term of four years, and in 1872 was re-elected. In conjunction with Prof. M. A. Newell he prepared the Maryland series of school-books, which includes Primary-School Spelling-Book; Grammar-School Spelling-Book; a series of six Readers; and Catechism of United States History. He died May 1, 1875, in Baltimore, Md.

Creighton, William

congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1778, in Berkeley county, Va. He was the first secretary of state for Ohio; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1817, and again from 1827 to 1833. He died Oct. 8, 1851, in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Creighton, William

JR., lawyer, jurist. He was appointed United States judge for the district of Ohio. was

Crele, Joseph

centenarian, was born in 1725, in Detroit, Mich. He bore arms at Braddock's defeat, and before the revolution was employed in carrying letters between Prairie du Chien and Green Bay. He settled in Wisconsin during the revolutionary war. He died Jan. 27, 1866, in Caledonia, Wis.

Crenshaw, Walter Henry

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born July 7, 1817, in Abbeville district, S. C. He was from 1838 till 1867 a member of either the upper or lower house of the Alabama legislature, officiating as speaker of the house in 1861-65, and president of the senate in 1865-67. He died in 1878, in Alabama.

Crew, Henry

educator, author, was born June 4, 1859, in Richmond, Ohio.

He has filled the chair of physics in the Johns Hopkins university, and in the Haverford college of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1891-92 ימים he was astronomer at the Lick observatory, and since 1892 has been professor of physics in the Northwestern university. He is the author of various papers on spectroscopy.

Crewes, Richard

clergyman, received his education at the Northwestern university, the Garrett Biblical institute, and the Illinois Wesleyaň university.

For several years he was a member of the joint board of trustees and visitors of the Illinois Wesleyan university. He is a successful clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church in the central Illinois conference; and now fills a pastorate in Dwight, Ill. During 1892-96 he was the first president of the Eighth General Conference District Epworth League.

Crewson, Evander A

poet, was born Dec. 8, 1849, in Washington county, Ohio. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Old Times.