Croes, John J. R
civil engineer, was born Nov. 25, 1834, in Richmond, Va.
He is a noted civil engineer of New York city; and the suburban rapid transit road in the northeastern part of New York city was built after his plans and under his supervision.
CROFFUT, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, journalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 29, 1835, in Redding, Conn. He is a wellknown journalist attached to many journals, east and west, and connected with the United States geological survey since 1888. He is the author of The War History of Connecticut; A Helping Hand; Bourbon Ballads; Deseret, an opera; A Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of travels; The Vanderbilts; The Folks Next Door; and The Prophecy and Other Poems.