Crofts, George W – Cross, Edward
Crofts, George W
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 9, 1842, in Leroy, Ill. He was the poet of the national farmers' congress; and the author of Golden Rod, a volume of meritorious poems.
Croghan, George
soldier, was born Nov. 15, 1791, in Louisville, Ky.
He fought in the war of 1812 under Gen.
Proctor and gained the promotion of lieutenant-colonel brevet. In 1825 he was appointed inspector-general of the army, with the rank of colonel. He died Jan. 8, 1849, in New Orleans, La.
Croly, David Goodman
journalist, author, was born Nov. 3, 1829, in New York city; and was the husband of Jennie June. He was a journalist of New York city; and the author of Life of Horatio Seymour; History of Reconstruction; The Positivist Primer; and Glimpses of the Future. He died in 1889..
Croly, Mrs. Jane Cunningham
author, and known as Jennie June, was born Dec. 19, 1831, in England. She is the founder of Sorosis, and editor of Demorest's Magazine in 1860-87. She is the author of Talks on Women's Topics; For Better or Worse; Knitters and Crochet; Letters and Monograms; Cookery Book for Young Beginners; and Thrown upon her Own Resources.
Crompton, George
manufacturer, inventor, was born March 23, 1829, in England. In 1851 he engaged in the manufacture of fancy looms in Worcester, Mass., where the Crompton loom works have since been established.
Cronin, J. Francis
physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 1, 1865, in Augusta, Ga. He graduated from the university of Georgia, and has attained success as a physician in Florida. He has been quarantine officer at Tampa, Punta Gorda, and Appalachicola, Fla., and filled other positions of trust.
Cronkhite, Henry M
soldier, surgeon, poet, was born March 14, 1834, in Little Falls, N. Y. He became acting assistant surgeon in the army until 1866; and since 1867 has been a surgeon in the United States army. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Reymond.
Crook, Harrison
physician, was born April 13, 1850, in Maryland. In 1878 he received his medical degree from the Georgetown Medical college, in which institution he was demonstrator of anatomy in 1878-82; and still holds the chair of clinical surgery. For the past ten years he has been surgeon to the Providence hospital of Washington, D. C. He is one of the leading physicians of the nation's capital.
Crook, Isaac
clergyman, educator, college president. He has been president of the university of the Pacific; chancellor of the Nebraska Wesleyan university; and is now president of the Ohio university of Athens. He is a constant contributor to current literature.
Crooke, Philip S
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 2, 1810, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was elected a presidential elector in 1852, and a member of the state legislature in 1863. He served forty years in the national guard of the state of New York, from private to brigadier-general; and commanded the fifth brigade in Pennsylvania in 1863. He was elected to the forty-third congress.
Crooker, Jabez C
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 16, 1820, in Woodstock, Vt. He graduated from the military university of Vermont, and served as a captain in the fifty-fifth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, and has practiced in all state and federal courts.
Crooks, George Richard
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 3, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a methodist clergyman and religious journalist; and the author of Life of John McClintock, Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books in Latin and Greek (with J. McClintock); and Latin-English Lexicon.
Crooks, Samuel Stearns
manufacturer, was born April 30, 1851, in Hopkinton, Mass. In 1892 he started the business known as Sharood and Crooks, manufacturers of fine shoes and slippers, and in 1894 more than 2,000 persons were engaged in this factory in St. Paul, Minn.
Cropper, John
soldier, was born in 1756, in Virginia. He served in the revolutionary war; and attained the rank of colonel. He died Jan. 15, 1821.
Cropsey, Andrew George
soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 10, 1850, in New Utrecht, N. Y. In 1874-1880 he was justice of the peace and school commissioner of Kings county, N. Y. He served as a private in the civil war.
Cropsey, Jasper Francis
artist, was born Feb. 18, 1823, in Staten Island, N. Y. In 1837, at the age of thirteen, he received a diploma from Mechanics and American Institute fairs of New York city for architectural modeling. He received a medal and diploma for painting from the Philadelphia Centennial exposition, and a medal for services in the London exhibition of 1862. His principal works are Autumn on the Hudson; and A Showery Day.
Crosbie, Henry R
jurist. He was an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Crosby, Alpheus
educator, author, was born Oct. 13, 1810, in Sandwich, N. H.
He was an educator of Massachusetts who published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; Greek Tables; and First Lessons in Geometry; an edition of Xenophon's Anabasis. He died April 17, 1874, in Salem, Mass.
Crosby, Ebenezer
soldier, educator physician, was born Sept. 30, 1753, in Bintree, Mass. He served through the revolutionary war as surgeon of Gen.
Washington's guards, and was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati. He died July 16, 1788.
Crosby, Enoch
patriot, was born Jan. 4, 1750, in Harwich, Mass. The story of his secret-service life, which was thought to be incorporated in Cooper's Spy, was dramatized, and Mr. Crosby was on one occasion present at a representation of the play in New York city, and, as the hero, received the plaudits of the multitude. He died June 20, 1835, in Brewster, N. Y.
Crosby, Henry Clay
clergyman, educator, college president, was born in 1853 in Longtown, S. C. He received his primary education in private schools and in Sherley's institute, S. C.; and attended the Shaw university, and the Leonard Medical college of Raleigh, N. C. For four years he was a justice of the peace of Vance county, N. C.; during 1879-87 was principal of the Garfield Graded schools of Raleigh, N. C.; and for ten years was president of the Plymouth State Normal school, North Carolina. He was licensed to preach in 1887 and was ordained a clergyman at the baptist church in 1892. He died Nov. 29, 1897, in Raleigh, N. C.
Crosby, Howard
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 27, 1826, in New York. He was a presbyterian clergyman long prominent in New York city who was chancellor of the university of New York city in 1870-81. He was the author of The Christian Preacher; Notes on the New Testament; Life of Jesus Christ and Science; At the Lord's Table; Sermons; Lands of the Moslem; Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Notes; Bible Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View of the Jewish Church; The Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the Church; Thoughts on the Pentateuch; and Commentary on the New Testament, which include his principal works. He died March 29, 1891, in New York.
Crosby, John Crawford
lawyer, congressman, was born June 15, 1859, in Sheffield, Mass. In 1885 he was elected a member of the school committee of Pittsfield and served six consecutive years in that office. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1885 and re-elected in 1886. In 1887 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts senate. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Crosby, John Schuyler
soldier, governor, was born Sept. 19, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. He was appointed a first. lieutenant in the first United States artillery in 1861; and served with gallantry in many of the most important engagements of the civil war. He received a. life-saving medal of the first class, by act of congress, for heroic daring and saving life during the foundering of the yacht Mohawk in 1876. In 1876 he was appointed United States consul at Florence, Italy, and served until 1882, when he was appointed governor of Montana.
Crosby, Josiah
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 24, 1816, in Dover, N. H.
He has practiced law in Dexter since 1845.
In 1856, 1863 and 1865 he was a member of the house of representatives of Maine; and in 1867-68 was a member of the state senate, and in the latter year was president of that body.
Crosby, Nathan
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 12, 1798, in Sandwich, N. H. He was a prominent lawyer and jurist of Lowell, who published First Half Century of Dartmouth College. He died Feb. 9, 1885, in Lowell, Mass.
Crosby, William George
governor, was born in 1806, in Belfast, Maine.
He was governor of Maine from 1853 to 1855. He died in 1881, in Belfast, Maine.
Crosby, William Otis
educator, author, was born Jan. 14, 1850, in Decatur, Ohio. He is a professor of geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and has published Common Minerals and Rocks; and Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts.
Cross, Charles Robert
educator, author, was born March 29, 1848, in Troy, N. Y. He is a professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the author of Course in Elementary Physics; and Lecture Notes on Mechanics and Optics.
Cross, David W
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 17, 1814, in Pulaski, N. Y. He is a Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a. sportsman; and the author of Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun.
Cross, Edward
jurist, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Arkansas; and was elected a representative in congress from 1839 to 1845.