Cross, Edward Ephraim – Crowell, John
Cross, Edward Ephraim
soldier, journalist, was born April 22, 1832, in Lancaster, N. H. In 1854 he was editor of the Cincinnati Times. He took the first steam engine and printing press across the Rocky Mountains in 1858. He served in the Mexican army as a lieutenant-colonel; and served during 1860-63 as a colonel in the fifth regiment New Hampshire volunteers. He died July 2, 1863, near Gettysburg, Pa.
Cross, George Dilwyn
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 24, 1799, in Westerly, R. I. He served six terms in the general assembly; was state senator in 1826-35 and 1848-50; chief justice of the court of common pleas for Washington county in 1837-49; and in 1840 was one of the commissioners for fixing the boundary line between Connecticut and Rhode Island. He died Oct. 1, 1872, in Westerly, R. I.
Cross, James B
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1817, in Geneva, N. Y. In 1841 he moved to Milwaukee, Wis.; and served as mayor of that city during 1855-58. He was the first probate judge under the state law; and in 1857 came within five hundred votes of defeating Alexander W. Randall for governor. He died in 1876, in Milwaukee, Wis.
CROSS, MRS. JANE TANDY [CHINN] [HARDING], author, was born in 1817, in Harrodsburg, Ky. She is the author of Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for My Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a translation from the Spanish; and Duncan Adair, a novel. She died in October, 1870, in Elizabethtown, Ky.
Cross, John S
civil engineer, state legislator, was born May 4, 1849, in Bangor, Mich. During 1870-84 he was engaged as a civil and mining engineer; and since the latter date has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Bangor. During 1887-88 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature.
Cross, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born July 4, 1813, in England. He was an episcopal clergyman who from 1829-1856 was a prominent methodist divine. The more important of his writings include Headlands of Faith; Pisgah Views of the Promised Inheritance; A Year in Europe; Coals from the Altar; Pauline Charity; Prelections on Charity; and Old Wine and New. He died in 1893.
Cross, Judson Newell
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 16, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the civil war; was made assistant provost marshal on the staff of the military governor of Washington in 1864; and soon after special mustering officer. He was three times elected city attorney of Minneapolis, and held the office during 1883-87.
Cross, Osborne
soldier, was born in 1803, in Maryland. He was made deputy quartermaster-general in 1863; in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army. He was promoted to colonel in 1866. He died July 15, 1876, in New York city.
Cross, Roselle Theodore
educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 21, 1844, in Richville, N. Y. For four years he was principal of the academic department of Oberlin college; has filled pastorates in various large cities; and is the author of Home Duties; Clear as Crystal; History of Colorado Congregationalism; and also numerous articles, poems and lectures.
Cross, Samuel Creed
author, educator, lecturer, was born Oct. 10, 1871, in Great Cacapon, W. Va. He graduated from the northern Indiana university, and was retained as a teacher in that college; and is now professor in the Grand Rapids Business college, Mich.
Cross, Trueman
soldier, author, was born in Maryland. He was chief of the quartermaster's department of the army of occupation from 1845 till his death, which he met at the hands of Mexican banditti. He published Military Laws of the United States. He died April 21, 1846.
Crossland, Edward
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 30, 1827, in Hickman county, Ky. He was a member of the state legislature in 1857; elected judge of the court of common pleas in the first district for six years in 1867; and was elected to the forty-second and fortythird congresses as a democrat.
Croswell, Andrew
clergyman, author, was born in 1709, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a Boston clergyman, very active as a controversialist; and the author of The Apostle's Advice to the Jailor Improved; and Heaven shut against Arminians and Antinomians. He died April 12, 1785, in Boston, Mass.
Croswell, Charles M
lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 1825, in Newburg, N. Y. He was elected register of deeds of Lewanee county, Mich., in 1850, and re-elected in 1852; in 1854 was a member and secretary of the state convention at Jackson, Mich., from which sprung the republican party. In 1862 he was appointed city attorney, and the same year was elected mayor of Adrian. He was a state senator in 1863, 1865, and 1867; and was speaker of the state house of representatives in 1873. He was elected governor of Michigan in 1876, and re-elected in 1878. He died Dec. 13, 1886, in Adrian, Mich.
Croswell, Harry
clergyman, author, was born June 16, 1778, in West Hartford, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman and rector of Trinity church of New Haven in 1816-58, but in earlier life was a political journalist noted for his scathing editorials. He was the author of Young Churchman's Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy Sacrament. He died March 13, 1858, in New Haven, Conn.
Crouch, Edward
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1815.
Crounse, Lorenzo
governor, soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 27, 1834, in Sharon, N. Y. For awhile he was employed with his father in the tanning business; then taught school; and was admitted to the bar in 1857.
During the war he was captain of battery K, first regiment New York light artillery; and he was severely wounded during the second Bull Run battle. In 1866 he served in the territorial legislature of Nebraska; in 1867 he was elected a justice of the supreme court; and for several years was supreme court reporter. He served in the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a republican; and in 1892 was elected governor of the state of Nebraska.
Crouse, George Washington
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1832, in Tallmadge, Ohio.
He has been prominently identified with the business and public affairs of Akron, Ohio; and during the war was a sergeant in company F, one hundred and sixty-fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. During 1885-87 he was a member of the Ohio state senate; when he resigned and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican. He is now president of the City National bank; the Akron Twine and Cordage company; the Akron Printing and Publishing company; the Akron Water Works company; and numerous other business enterprises. a
Crouter, a. L. Edgerton
educator, author, was born in Canada. He is superintendent of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; and is the author of Statistics of Articulation Teaching in America; and numerous other works.
Crow, Moses Rockwell
lawyer, capitalist, was born in 1855, in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He became a water expert, a water engineer, and a water capitalist, in connection with water works for the city of Mexico and several South American cities. He also controls the New York and Westchester Water company, the Pocantico Water Works company, and the New York City District Water Supply company.
Crowder, John S
clergyman, was born June 27, 1872, in Richmond, Va. He graduated from the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind.; and is attaining prominence as one of the foremost clergymen in the methodist episcopal church in Indiana.
Crowe, John Finley
clergyman, educator, was born June 16, 1787, in Tennessee. He founded Hanover college and the Indiana Theological seminary; and was vice-president of the college, besides filling the professorships of rhetoric, logic, and history from 1832-60. He died Jan. 17, 1860, in Hanover, Ind.
Crowe, Winfield Scott
clergyman, author, was born in 1850, in Indiana.
He is a universalist clergyman of Newark, N. J.; and editor of the Universalist Monthly. He is the author of The Man of Evolution; The God of Evolution; and The Lordship of Jesus.
Crowell, Eugene
author, was born in 1817, in New York. He was a writer of San Francisco, and later of New York city, and was a zealous defender of spiritualism. He was the author of The Identity of Primitive Christianity with Modern Spiritualism; The Spirit World; The Philosophy of Death; Spiritualism and Insanity; and The Religion of Spiritualism. He died in 1894.
Crowell, John
congressman, was born in Halifax county, Ala. He was chosen delegate to congress when the territory of Alabama was established in 1817, and served till 1819, when the state constitution was formed. He was elected the first representative to congress, serving until 1821. He died June 25, 1846, in Fort Mitchell, Ala.
Crowell, John
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1847 to