Cross, James B
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1817, in Geneva, N. Y. In 1841 he moved to Milwaukee, Wis.; and served as mayor of that city during 1855-58. He was the first probate judge under the state law; and in 1857 came within five hundred votes of defeating Alexander W. Randall for governor. He died in 1876, in Milwaukee, Wis.
CROSS, MRS. JANE TANDY [CHINN] [HARDING], author, was born in 1817, in Harrodsburg, Ky. She is the author of Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for My Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a translation from the Spanish; and Duncan Adair, a novel. She died in October, 1870, in Elizabethtown, Ky.