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Cresson, John Chapman

farmer, educator, civil engineer, was born in 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He given the chair of mechanics and natural philosophy in Franklin institute in 1837, and in 1855 was made its president. He was president of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad company in 1847-76, and one of the original Fairmount park commissioners, afterward becoming chief engineer of that park. He died in 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa.

CRESWELL, JOHN A. J., lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 18, 1828, in Port Deposit, Md. He was a member of the Maryland house of delegates in 1861 and 1862; and was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-eighth congress; and in 1865 was chosen a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, the border states convention, held in Baltimore in 1867, and the Chicago convention of 1868. In 1869 he entered the cabinet of President Grant as postmaster-general.

He died Dec. 23, 1891, in Elkton, Ind.

CRESWELL, MRS. JULIA PLEAS- ANTS, author, poet, was born Aug. 21, 1827, in Huntsville, Ala. She was a southern writer who published Aphelia and Other Poems by Two Cousins; and Callamura, an allegorical novel. She died June 9, 1886, in Shreveport, La.