Cranston, Henry Young – Crawford, George Washing- Ton
Cranston, Henry Young
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1789, in Newport, R. I. In 1818 he was elected clerk of the court of common pleas, and held the office until 1833. He was for twenty-five years annually elected moderator for the town of Newport; and was a member of the lower branch of the legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1847, when he was returned to the legislature, and was several times speaker of that body until 1854. He died Feb. 12, 1864, in Newport, R. I.
Cranston, John
president of Rhode Island. He was attorney-general of the colony; was deputy governor in 1672, which he filled until elected governor in 1678, which office he held until his death, March 12, 1680.
Cranston, John Samuel
president of Rhode Island, was a son of John Cranston. In 1698 he became governor, and was thirty times successively chosen to that place, holding the office until his death in 1727. a
Cranston, Robert Bennie
banker, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1791, in Newport, R. I. He was a banker for several years, was postmaster, and member of the state legislature, serving for one term as speaker. Subsequently he was sent to congress as a law-and-order whig, and served in 1847-49. He bequeathed $75,000 to those poor of Newport who are too honest to steal and too proud to beg. He died Jan. 27, 1873, in Newport, R. I.
Crapo, Henry Howland
lumber manufacturer, state senator, governor, was born May 24, 1804, in Dartmouth, Mass. He moved to Michigan in 1857, was for a time mayor of Flint, and served in the state senate. He was twice elected governor of the state, in 1864 and 1866, performing important services during the progress of the rebellion. died July 23, 1869, in Flint, Mich.
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Crapo, Philip M
soldier, statesman, financier, was born June 30, 1844, in Freetown, Mass. He received his education at the public and high schools of New Bedford, Mass. He has become prominent in the business and public affairs of Burlington, Iowa, where he has filled various important offices, including that of president of the board of trustees of the free public library, president of the board of park commissioners, president of the board of trade, president of the board of commissioners, who had charge of the Iowa semi-centennial celebration at Burlington during October, 1896, and president of the Commercial club. He has been prominent in Grand Army of the Republic affairs; was chiefly instrumental in the establishment of the Iowa soldiers' home; and was also one of the chief promoters of the Iowa soldiers' monument. He has been a candidate for the state senate and for governor of Iowa. For four years he was chairman of the congressional committee, and is now the financial correspondent for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company. He has secured for Burlington one of the most beautiful public parks in the west, which bears his name. He has also built for the city the finest public library building in the state of Iowa, paying one-half the cost.
Crapo, William Wallace
lawyer, congressman, was born May 16, 1830, in Dartmouth, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1857; and in 1875 was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Crapo, William Wallace
railroad president, was born May 16, 1830, in Dartmouth, Mass. Since 1882 he has been president of the Flint, Pere and Marquette railway.
Crary, Horace H
tanner, was born Aug. 29, 1824, in Liberty, N. Y. In different firms he is interested in tanneries at Sheffield, and in the Penn and the Union Tanning companies, each of them virtually a syndicate of tanners. He was active in forming the United States Leather company, and his interests are now merged therein.
Crary, Isaac E
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Preston, Conn. He moved to the territory of Michigan, and was appointed a general of militia.
He was elected a delegate to congress from the territory in 1835 and 1836; and was a representative in congress from that state from the time of its admission into the union in 1836 to 1841. He died May 8, 1854, in Marshall, Mich.
Cravath, Erastus Milo
clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 1, 1833, in Homer, N. Y. He received his education at the Homer academy, Oberlin college, and the Theological seminary. He has been pastor of the congregational church of Berlin Heights, Ohio, and served as chaplain of the one hundred and first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry during the civil war. He has been the field agent, district secretary and general field secretary of the American Missionary association of New York. He has been eminently successful in all his labors, and is now the honored president of the Fisk university of Nashville, Tenn.
Craven, Braxton
college president, author, was born Aug. 26, 1822, in Deep River, N. C. He was first and third president of Trinity college; and the author of Bullion's English Grammar; An Historical Sketch of Trinity College, and one or two sermons and novelettes. He died Nov. 7, 1882, in Trinity college.
Craven, Charles Henderson
naval officer, was born Nov. 30, 1843, in Portland, Maine. In 1874 he became executive officer of the Kearsarge, of the Pacific squadron, and later of the Monocacy.
Craven, Elija Richardson
clergyman, author, was born March 28, 1824, in Washington, D. C. He has filled pastorates in the presbyterian churches of Somerville and Newark, N. J.; and is the author of many articles for reviews.
Craven, Henry Smith
civil engineer, inventor, was born Oct. 14, 1845, in Bound Brook, N. J. He took charge of the construction of the new Croton aqueduct in New York, up to 1886. He is the inventor of an automatic trip for mining buckets, and of a tunneling machine.
Cravens, James A
soldier, agriculturist, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1818, in Rockingham county, Va. In 1848- 49 he was elected to the legislature of Indiana; in 1850 elected to the state senate, serving three years; and in 1854 was commissioned a brigadier-general of militia. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. con-
Cravens, James H
soldier, gressman, was born in 1798 in Rockingham county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1841 to 1843; and was subsequently a candidate of the free-soil party for the office of governor. He served as colonel of an Indiana regiment during the war for the suppression of the rebellion.
Cravens, Jordan E
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1830, in Fredericktown, Mo. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1860; and served in the confederate army throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel. He was a state senator in 1866; was a presidential elector in 1872; and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
CRAWFORD, MRS. ALICE [ARNOLD], author, poet, was born in 1850, in Wisconsin. She was a Milwaukee writer who published A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends, a collection of poems. She died in 1874.
Crawford, Andrew J
railroad president, was born Nov. 7, 1837, in Montgomery county, Pa. Since 1891 he has been president of the Nashville and Knoxville railroad.
Crawford, Dugal
merchant, was born Feb. 2, 1830, in Scotland. He came to St. Louis, Mo., commenced the dry goods business, which is now one of the largest concerns in the country. He is one of the trustees of Drury college, and is the first and only president since the starting of the Congregational City Missionary society of St. Louis in 1887. .
Crawford, Francis Marion
author, was born Aug. 2, 1854, in Italy. He is the author of Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone's Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio's Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant' Ilario; A Cigarette-Maker's Romance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; and Taquisara.
Crawford, George Washing- Ton
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 22, 1798, in Columbia county, Ga. In 1827 he was elected attorney-general, and continued in that office until 1831. He was in the state legislature from 1837 to 1842; and in 1843 was elected to congress to fill a vacancy. He was elected governor of the state in 1843, and re-elected in 1845. He was a member of President Taylor's cabinet as secretary of war. He died July 22, 1872, in Richmond county, Ga.