Craig, Hector – Cranch, Richard
Craig, Hector
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1825; and again from 1829 to 1830.
Craig, Isaac B
lawyer, legislator, was born April 28, 1857, in Charleston, Ill. He was a member of the Illinois house of representatives of thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh general assemblies; state senator of thirty-eighth and thirtyninth general assemblies; and again a member of the house of representatives of the fortieth general assembly.
Craig, James
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 7, 1820, in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Missouri legislature in 1847; and was a captain of a volunteer company in the Mexican war. He was circuit attorney for the twelfth judicial circuit in Missouri from 1852 to 1856. He was a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from Missouri; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was appointed a brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1862, and employed in the west. He died Oct. 21, 1888, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Craig, John
philanthropist, was born in 1797 in Goffstown, N. H. Besides giving liberally during his lifetime, he bequeathed sums amounting to $105,000 to various universalist educational institutions. He died July 19, 1872, in Rochester, N. Y. common
Craig, John Enster
lawyer, legislator, was born March 14, 1853, in Claysville, Pa. He attended the schools, and in 1887 graduated from the Washington and Jefferson college. In 1878 he moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar the following year.
In 1886 he was elected a member of the Iowa legislature; received the re-election in 1888; and during his service took a prominent part among the lawmakers of the state. In 1889 and again in 1891 he was elected mayor of Keokuk; and under his administration great improvements were made in that city. His name was suggested as a candidate for governor at the convention held at Sioux City in 1889, but he declined to permit his name to be used in connection with the candidacy of that office. He is prominent in educational and business circles, and has always taken an active part in all matters pertaining to the welfare of his adopted city.
Craig, Joseph H
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 3, 1850, in Windsor, N. Y. He received his education at the Glen Roy academy, Lenox college, and in 1875 graduated from the Rush Medical college of Chicago. He has served as United States examining surgeon; medical examiner for ten old line insurance companies; and health physician for three townships in Clayton county, Iowa.
Craig, Robert
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1829 to 1833; and again from 1835 to 1841.
Craig, Robert H
actor, artist, author, was born March 24, 1842, in New York city. He had talent as a painter, and was the author of burlesques on Don Juan, Faust, Hamlet, and Camille. He died Dec. 8, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo.
Craig, Samuel Alfred
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1839, in Brookville, Pa. He was commissioned captain in the veteran reserve corps, United States army, and served continuously four years and three months. He was elected district attorney; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Craig, Samuel Thomas
soldier, merchant, was born March 22, 1835, in Corydon, Ind. In his youth he learned the trade of a carriage maker; and in 1860 crossed the Rocky mountains. He served gallantly through the civil war, enlisting as a private in company H, first regiment Iowa volunteer cavalry; was promoted through all grades and brevetted brigadier-general. He participated in nearly all of the scouting and battles with the enemy in southwestern Missouri, and in Arkansas and other states; crossed the Ozark mountains; and was mustered out in 1866. He remained one year in Texas, and then returned home to Iowa.
He was county auditor for four terms; and has principally been engaged in mercantile business at Albia, Iowa.
Craig, William
artist, was born in 1829 in Dublin, Ireland. Toward the end of his life he painted rapidly, and so his later works were Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga; On the Hudson (1870); Hudson River near West Point (1871); and Falls on the Boquet River. He died in 1875 in New York.
Craige, Burton
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 13, 1811, in Rowan county, N. C. He was a member of the state legislature in 1832 and 1834; and was elected to the thirty-third, thirty-fourth. thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died Dec. 30, 1875, in Concord, N. C.
Craik, James
physician, was born in 1731 in Ireland. During the revolutionary war Dr. Craik served in the medical department, and rose to the first rank. After the war he removed to the neighborhood of Mount Vernon at Washington's request, and attended him in his last illness. He died Feb. 6, 1814, in Fairfax county, Va.
Craik, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1796 to 1801.
Crain, William H
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1848, in Galveston, Tex. He settled at Cuero, Tex.; and in 1872 was elected district attorney for the twenty-third judicial district of Texas. In 1876 he was elected a state senator; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Cralle, Richard K
author, was born in South Carolina. He was previously an editor and Swedenborgian clergyman in Washington. He published Works of John C. Calhoun, with a memoir, in six volumes; and several polemical works on new church doctrines. He died June 10, 1864, in Virginia.
Cram, Ralph Adams
architect, author, poet, was born in 1863 in New Hampshire. He is an architect of Boston, and the author of The Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and White, a book of ghost stories; and In the Island of Avalon, a book of poems.
Cram, Thomas Jefferson
soldier, was born about 1807 in New Hampshire.
In 1866 he was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army for his services during the civil war. After this he served on boards of engineers for the improvement of harbors on the great lakes, and on Feb. 22, 1869, was retired.
He died Dec. 20, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Cramer, John
state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1779, in Waterford, N. Y. He was a presidential elector in 1805; served three years in the assembly, and three years in the senate of the state of New York. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1821; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1837. He died June 1, 1870, in Waterford, N. Y.
Cramer, Michael John
clergyman, diplomat, was born Feb. 6, 1835, in Switzerland. He was chaplain in the United States army from 1864 to 1867; and in the latter year he was appointed United States consul at Leipsic, Germany.
In 1870 he was appointed United States minister to Denmark; in 1881 was transferred in a like capacity to the republic of Switzerland.
Cramer, William E
journalist, was born Oct. 29, 1817, in Waterford, N. Y.
He was admitted to the bar, but adopted the career of journalism. In 1847 he became the editor and senior proprietor of the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, in which position he has continued for half a century. When he came to Wisconsin, the state had not adopted its constitution, and he was instrumental in incorporating into its organic law the homestead exemption clause, and the section providing for the right of married women to retain possession of their property.
Cramp, Charles Henry
was born May 9, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1879 he became president of the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., and is now the most conspicuous shipbuilder of the United States.
Cramp, William
shipbuilder, was born in 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the firm incorporated in 1872 under the name of William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building company. Until 1860 the Cramps were engaged in the building of wooden vessels and ships; and in 1862 they built the ironclad battleship New Ironsides. He died July 6, 1879, in Atlantic City, N. J.
Cramton, John Willey
merchant, state senator, was born Nov. 10, 1826, in Tinmouth, Vt. His firm of John W.
Cramton and Co. carry on a large trade in stoves and hardware, and the Bardwell house in Rutland has belonged to him for the last thirty years. He is now president of the Baxter National bank, the Steam Stone Cutter Co., the True Blue Marble Co. and the Rutland Street railroad. He was a state senator in 1886; state prison director in 1882-92; and president of Rutland village for several terms. a
Cranch, Caroline A
artist, daughter of Christopher Pearse Cranch.
She paints figure pieces with success, and has a large clientage in Cambridge, Mass.
Cranch, Christopher Pearse
clergyman, artist, poet, was born March 8, 1813, in Alexandria, Va. His best known poem, Thought, was written for The Dial. His work as a poet is uneven, but at its best is excellent. It never strongly appealed to popular tastes, but was always appreciated by thoughtful minds. He is the author of Poems, 1844; The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems; Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems; Satan: a Libretto; The AEneid in English Blank Verse. The Last of the Huggermuggers; and Kobboltzo, are juvenile prose tales. He died Jan. 20, 1892, in Cambridge, Mass.
Cranch, George
painter. He was a portrait painter of Washington, D. C.; and was an associate in the National academy. He died in 1891.
Cranch, Richard
lawyer, author, was born in 1726 in England. He was a lawyer of Braintree, Mass., and the author of Views of the Prophets concerning Anti- Christ. He died in 1811..