Cozzens, Frederick Schiller – Craig, George H
Cozzens, Frederick Schiller
artist, author, was born Oct. 11, 1846, in New York city. He has published a series of lithographed drawings of American Yachts, accompanied with descriptions by Lieut.
James D. J. Kelley.
He has also produced series of a outline-drawings of vessels of all kinds, comprising steamers from 1819 to the present, American and English yachts, and all varieties of American craft propelled by sails, oars, or paddles.
Cozzens, Frederick Swartout
merchant, author, was born March 5, 1818, in New York city. He was a wine merchant of New York city, once noted as a humorist, but now neglected. He is the author of The Sparrowgrass Papers; Acadia, or a Sojourn among the Blue Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men; Stone House on the Susquehanna; Prismatics; and Fitz- Greene Halleck, a Memorial. He died Dec. 23, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Cozzens, Issachar
mineralogist, author, was born in 1781 in Newport, R. I.
He was a mineralogist who published History of New York Island.
Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth
lawyer, author, was born April 14, 1834, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a lawyer of Arizona, and the author of Nobody's Husband; The Marvellous Country, or Three Years in Arizona; The Young Trail Hunters; The Young Silver Seekers; and Crossing the Quicksands. He died Nov. 4, 1878, in Thomaston, Ga.
Cozzens, William Cole
merchant, governor, was born Aug. 26, 1811, in Newport, R. I. He became the head of the dry goods firm of William C. Cozzens and Co., and about 1857 president of the Rhode Island Union bank. In 1854 he was mayor of Newport, subsequently a representative in the general assembly, and in 1861 a senator. In 1862 the governor and lieutenant-governor having resigned, Mr. Cozzens, who had been chosen president of the senate, became acting governor of the state for about three months. He died in December, 1876, in Newport, R. I.
Crabb, George W
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1839 to 1841.
Crabb, Jeremiah
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1795 to 1796.
Crabbe, Thomas
naval officer, was born in 1788 in Maryland. He was retired as commodore in 1862, officiated as prize commissioner in 1864-65, and was made a rear-admiral on the retired list in 1866.
He died June 29, 1872, in Princeton, N. J.
Crabtree, John D
lawyer, soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 19, 1837, in England. He entered the civil war as a private and was promoted to second lieutenant, captain, and brevet-major. In 1887 he was elected state senator; in 1888 became judge of circuit court thirteenth judicial circuit of Illinois; and since 1896 has been judge of the appellate court second district of Illinois.
Crabtree, Lotta M
actress, was born Nov. 7, 1847, in New York city.
At the age of eleven she played the part of Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover, at Petaluma. Her chief successes have been as Topsy; Sam Willoughby; Firefly; Zip; Bob; The Little Detective; and Nitouche.
Cradlebaugh, John
jurist, congressman, was born in Ohio. He was elected a delegate from the territory of Nevada to the thirty-seventh congress; and was subsequently appointed United States judge for the territory of Utah.
Craft, William S
clergyman, was born July 13, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He acquired the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; and subsequently received a collegiate training. For the past fifteen years he has been a member of the upper Iowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal church; has attained distinction as an eloquent clergyman of that denomination; and now fills a pastorate in Davenport, Iowa.
Crafts, Clayton E
lawyer, state legislator, was born July 8, 1848, in Auburn, Ohio. In 1882 he was elected to the state legislature; has been five times reelected; and in 1891 was speaker of the house. He is regarded as one of the best lawyers and safest counselors in Chicago.
Crafts, Ebenezer
pioneer, was born in 1740 in Pomfret, Conn. In 1790 he emigrated with his family to the wilderness of Vermont and there founded the town that is called after him. He died in 1810 in Craftsbury, Vt.
Crafts, James Mason
chemist, educator, was born March 8, 1839, in Boston, Mass. In 1868-70 he was professor of chemistry at Cornell, and from 1870 till 1880 a member of the faculty in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, although from 1874 till 1880 non-resident professor. a
Crafts, Samuel C
statesman, was born Oct. 6, 1768, in Woodstock, Vt. In 1796, 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805 he was elected a member of the house of representatives of the state. In 1800 he was appointed a judge of Orleans county court, and remained such till 1816, during the last six years as chief judge. From 1825 to 1828 he was again chief judge. In 1816 he was elected a representative in congress, and was re-elected for the three succeeding terms. In 1828 he was elected governor of Vermont, and was re-elected in 1829 and 1830. In 1829 he was president of the constitutional convention; in 1842 was appointed by Governor Paine, and afterwards elected by the legislature, a senator in congress for the unexpired term of one year; thus filling every office in the gift of Vermont. He died Nov. 19, 1853, in Craftsbury, Vt.
Crafts, Sarah J. Timanus
author.
She has published Letters to Primary Teachers; treatises on kindergarten teaching; and religious books for the young.
Crafts, Walter
mining engineer, was born Jan. 21, 1839, in Newton, Mass.
In 1877 he was appointed treasurer and manager of the Crafts Iron company in the Hocking valley, Ohio, and in 1883 became an official in the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron company.
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk
was born Jan. 12, 1850, in Fryeburg, Maine. He is a congregational clergyman of New York city and elsewhere; and is now superintendent of the National Reform Bureau of Washington, D. C. He is the author of Through the Eye to the Heart; Childhood; The Ideal Sunday School; The Rescue of Child Soul; Must the Old Testament Go? The Sabbath for Man; Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus; Successful Men of To-Day; and Practical Christian Sociology.
Crafts, William Augustus
journalist, author, was born in 1819. He is the author of Life of General Grant; History of the United States; and Pioneers in the Settlement of America.
Cragin, Aaron H
lawyer, United States senator, was born Feb. 3, 1821, in Weston, Vt. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature from 1852 to 1855; was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fifth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. In 1859 he was again elected a member of the state legislature; and in 1864 was elected a senator in congress from New Hampshire for the term of six years from 1865; and re-elected for the term ending in 1877.
Cragin, Daniel
manufacturer, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1836, in Merrimack, N. H. During 1875-76 he served as a representative in the New Hampshire state legislature. He is a successful mechanic and manufacturer of wooden ware; and has taken a prominent part in the public affiairs of Wilton, N. H. While member of the New Hampshire state legislature he took an active part a in the passage of numerous bills that tended to the welfare and prosperity of his state; and as a successful manufacturer he has become one of the foremost and best known in the New England states.
Cragin, Francis Whittemore
naturalist, was born Sept. 4, 1858, in Greenfield, N. H. He has attained national prominence as a successful naturalist of Topeka, Kan.
Craider, Frederick
revolutionary veteran. He fought in the continental army, and was a veteran also of the war of 1812-15. He died in August, 1866, in Meadville, Miss.
Craig, Craig
soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 10, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He represented Philadelphia in the legislature in 1849-50. In 1875 he was appointed a judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia, and in the following autumn was elected to the same office.
Craig, Alexander Johnson
educator, was born Nov. 11, 1823, in Goshen, N. Y. He became principal of a Milwaukee school in 1854, and in 1858-59 edited the Wisconsin Journal of Education at Racine and Madison, Wis. In 1859-60 he was a member of the legislature. He was president of the state teachers' association, and was chosen assistant state superintendent of schools in 1860, and from 1868 till his death was superintendent-in-chief. He died July 5, 1870, in Madison, Wis.
Craig, Allen
lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 25, 1835, in Carbon county, Pa. In 1859 he was elected district attorney of Carbon county, and in 1878 was elected state senator for the district comprising Carbon, Monroe and Pike counties.
Craig, George H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in Cahaba, Ala. He was promoted to first lieutenant of infantry, and as such, in 1863, again entered the confederate service, serving until the end of the war. He was appointed, in 1874, judge of the first judicial circuit to fill an unexpired term; and was elected, in 1874, judge of the first judicial circuit for six years, served the term out, and retired to practice in Selma. He was elected to the forty-eighth congress.