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Cranch, William
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 17, 1769, in Weymouth, Mass. He was a noted jurist who was chief justice of the District of Columbia in 1805-55.
He was the author of Reports of Cases in the United States district court of the District of Columbia, 1801-41; and Supreme Court Reports, 1800-1815. His decisions have shown great legal learning and a clear judicial mind. He died Sept. 1, 1855, in Washington, D. C.
Crandall, Charles Henry
author, poet, was born in 1858 in New York.
He is the author of Wayside Music, a volume of poems.
Crandall, Charles L
educator, author, was born July 20, 1850, in Bridgewater, N. Y. He was appointed instructor in civil engineering, assistant professor of engineering, and associate professor of Cornell university. He is the author of Tables for the Computation of Railway and Other Earthworks; and Notes on Descriptive Geometry.
Crandall, Lucian Stephen
inventor, was born May 4, 1844, in New York. He invented the Crandall typewriter; and in 1886 he organized the Parish Manufacturing company of Parish, N. Y., and began the manufacture of the American Standard and Victoria. They were all eventually superseded by the International, which is his most original and best work.
Crandall, Orestes Augustus
lawyer, financier, author, was born Feb. 25, 1833, near Syracuse, N. Y. He moved to Illinois in infancy with his father; learned the wagonmaker's trade; and subsequently became a prominent member of the Missouri bar.
In 1868 and in 1872 he was a member of the Missouri democratic state executive committee; and in 1868 was a candidate for state senator. In 1880 he organized the Missouri Trust company, at Sedalia, Mo., and is still its president. In 1897 he was appointed by the governor of Missouri a member of the board of managers of the state geological bureau. His chief literary works are a book on Money, and several monographs on scientific subjects.
Crandall, Prudence
philanthropist, was born Sept. 3, 1803, in Hopkinton, R. I. She opened a school in Canterbury, Conn., for young ladies; and was soon after imprisoned for accepting colored girls. She died Jan. 28, 1889, in Elk Falls, Kan.
Crandall, Reuben
physician, was born about 1805, in Westchester, N. Y.
He went to Washington, D. C., to teach botany in 1835, and was arrested and sent to prison on the charge of circulating incendiary pamphlets. He died Feb. 1, 1838, in Jamaica, W. I.
Crane, Anne Moncure
author, was born Jan. 7, 1838, in Baltimore, Md.
In 1858 she began her first story, entitled Emily Chester, which was published several years later. She was also the author of Opportunity and Reginald Archer. She died Dec. 10, 1873.
Crane, Cephas Bennett
clergyman, author, was born in 1833. He is a baptist clergyman of Boston, and the author of The Spiritual Court of the Christian Church.
Crane, Elvin Williamson
lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1888 he was appointed prosecutor of Sussex county, N. Y., and in 1886 was elected to the state legislature.
Crane, Frank Irving
lumber merchant, was born Sept. 26, 1848, in Sharon, Ohio. He received his education at the public schools and the academy of his native city. He is a successful lumber merchant of Austin, Minn.; and has for more than a quarter of a century been identified with the business interests and prosperity of that city. He has served with distinction as mayor; and unanimously received the nomination and election to a second term by all the party conventions of that city.
Crane, Henry C
clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1845, in Norton, Mass.
He was ordained in 1873 as a congregational minister, and has filled pastorates at Franklin, Mass., Allegheny City, Pa., and Springfield, Mo. His poems have appeared from time to time in the religious and secular press.
Crane, Jonathan Townley
clergyman, author, was born June 18, 1819, in Elizabeth, N. J. He was a methodist clergyman of New Jersey, and the author of Methodism and its Methods: The Right Way; Essay on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; and Holiness the Birthright of all God's Children. He died Feb. 16, 1880, in Port Jervis, N. Y.
Crane, Joseph H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Elizabethtown, N. J. For many years he was president judge of the court of common pleas; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1829 to 1837. He died Nov. 12, 1852, in Dayton, Ohio.
Crane, Oliver
clergyman, oriental and classical scholar, was born July 12, 1822, in Montclair, N. J. He prepared for college in his native city; graduated from Yale university in 1845; and from the Union Theological seminary in 1848.
He then spent several years in the orient, and subsequently filled pastorates in Huron and Waverly, N. Y., and in Carbondale, Pa.
G He is the author of a critical translation of Virgil's Æneid; a volume of verse entitled Minto and Other Poems; and has prepared an elaborate Encyclopedia Class Record, as Class Secretary; besides many articles on various subjects. He died in 1896, in Boston, Mass.
Crane, Richard T
manufacturer, was born in 1832, in Paterson, N. J. He incorporated the business with $1,000,000 capital as the Northwestern Manufacturing Co., reorganized it as the Crane Bro.'s Manufacturing Co. and later changed it to the Crane Co.
Crane, Sibylla Bailey
educator, composer, author, was born July 30, 1851, in Boston, Mass. She is a director and treasurer of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women; director of the Women's Educational and Industrial union; and the New England Woman's club. She is the author of a volume entitled Glimpses of the Old World.
Crane, Stephen
congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776.
Crane, Stephen
author, was born in 1870 in New Jersey. He is a popular novelist of New York city, and the author of George's Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines, a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, a striking historical romance of the Civil War in America; and Maggie, a story of slum life.
Crane, Thomas Frederick
educator, author, was born in 1844 in New York. He is a professor of Romance languages at Cornell university, and the author of Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française; La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; and Chansons Populaires de la France.
Crane, William Carey
clergyman, author, was born March 17, 1816, in Richmond, Va. He was a baptist clergyman of Texas, president of Baylor university in 1863-85, which was renamed Crane college in his honor in 1885. He was the author of Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston, and lesser works. He died Feb. 27, 1885, in Independence, Tex.
Crane, William H
actor, was born April 30, 1845, in Leicester, Mass. He made his first appearance in 1876 in New York city; and has attained success in The Senator, a play written for him by David D. Lloyd, which has been played in all the large cities of the United States.
Crane, William Montgomery
naval officer, was born Feb. 1, 1776, in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was appointed navy commissioner in 1841, and in 1842 chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography. He died by his own hand March 18, 1846, in Washington.
Crane, Zenas
manufacturer, was born Dec. 6, 1814, in Dalton, Mass. He is a partner in Z. and W. M. Crane, Crane and Co. and the Berkshire Mills Co., and also has an interest in the Dalton Shoe Co.
Cranfill, James Britton
clergyman, prohibitionist, was born Sept. 12, 1858, in Parker county, Tex. He is the editor of the Texas Baptist Standard, and has filled many prominent positions in the baptist denomination. In 1892 he was a candidate for vice-president of the United States on the prohibition ticket.
Cranford, John Walter
lawyer, congressman, was born near Grove Hill, Ala.
He was elected to the state senate in 1888 for a term of four years, and reelected in 1892. He served in the senate as chairman of judiciary committee No. 1, and was elected president pro tempore of the twenty-second senate. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat after one of the hottest joint canvasses ever known in the state.
Crank, William J. L
lawyer, was born June 2, 1867, in Stewartsville, Mo.
He attended the Kansas Normal college, and graduated in law from the state university of Kansas in 1889. He practiced his profession a while in Hill City; then in Laramie City, Wyo.; and in 1892 moved to Denver, Colo., where he has attained eminent success, and stands at the head of the bar as a trial lawyer and advocate. He has taken an active interest in local and national politics, and has contributed to the success of the republican party in numerous state campaigns.