Crowell, John Franklin – Crumpacker, Edgar D
Crowell, John Franklin
educator, college president, was born Nov. 1, 1857, in York, Pa. He was appointed president of Trinity college, North Carolina, and still occupies the presidency, with the chair of political and social science.
Crowell, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1806, in Middlefield, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman who published The Church Member's Manual of Ecclesiastical Principles; Church Member's Handbook; and History of Baptist Literature for Fifty Years. He died Aug. 19, 1871, in Flanders, N. J.
Crowl, Margaret A
poet, was born Sept. 14, 1849, in Canada. Her poems have appeared in several magazines and the local press generally.
Crowl, Theodore
soldier, clergyman, was born July 22, 1844, in Darlington, Pa. He served as a union soldier during the civil war in the one hundred and seventy-eighth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was promoted to second lieutenant; and was judge advocate of general court martial United States army at Tullahoma and Murfreesboro, Tenn., during the winter of 1864-65. In 1868 he graduated from the Washington and Jefferson college; and in 1871 from the Western Theological seminary of Pittsburg, Pa. In 1873 he organized the First Presbyterian church of Tacoma, Wash.
He has filled pastorates in Seattle, Wash.; Zanesville, Ohio; and is now pastor of the First Congregational church of Sterling, Ill. He has contributed extensively to religious literature.
Crowley, Denis O
philanthropist, poet. He was elevated to the priesthood in 1883. In 1887 he was transferred to San Francisco, where the city waifs were confided to his care. Since then he has built a large and beautiful home for the destitute and homeless boys of the city and state. He is the author of A Chaplet of Verse.
Crowley, Miles
lawyer, state state senator, congressman, was born in 1859, in Boston, Mass. He was elected chief engineer of the Galveston fire department for two terms; was a member of the house of representatives of the twentysecond legislature of the state of Texas; and a state senator of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth legislatures. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Crowley, Richard
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1836, in Lockport, N. Y. He was city attorney in 1865; was a state senator from 1866 to 1870; was United States district attorney from 1871 to 1879, when he resigned; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Crowley, Winfield S
journalist, was born Feb. 15, 1861, in Saco, Maine.
He is the editor and manager of the Globe-Star of Westbrook, Maine. He has been chairman of the board of registration, and is prominently identified with the democratic party of his county and state.
Crowninshield, Benjamin Wil- Liams
secretary of the navy, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1772, in Boston, Mass. In 1820 he was a presidential elector; and in 1826 was elected a representative in congress from the Salem district of Massachusetts, and continued in that position until 1831. He died Feb. 3, 1851, in Boston, Mass.
Crowninshield, Jacob
state legislator, congressman, was born March 31, 1770, in Salem, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1801; was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1805; and was appointed secretary of the navy in 1805. He died April 14, 1808, in Washington, D. C.
Crowther, George C
soldier, business man, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1849. In 1862 he entered the federal army, and was mustered out of service in 1865.
In 1869 he was elected secretary, of the Kansas state senate, and was re-elected in 1871 and 1873. From 1875 to 1886 he was engaged on newspapers and in the printing business; in 1887 was appointed deputy sheriff of Buchanan county, Mo.; in 1888 was elected city treasurer of St.
Joseph, and re-elected in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Croxton, John Thomas
soldier, journalist, lawyer, was born Nov. 20, 1837, in Bourbon county, Ky. He participated in the battles of Sherman's army, and at the close of the war was put in command of the military district of southwest Georgia, with headquarters at Macon. He established the Louisville Commercial as a republican journal. He died April 16, 1874, in Bolivia.
Croxton, Thomas
lawyer, congressman, was born March 15, 1822, in Tappahannock, Va. He was commonwealth attorney for his native county from 1852 to 1865; was a presidential elector in 1880; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Crozier, John H
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1849.
Crozier, Mrs. M. P. A
poet, was born Feb. 23, 1834, in Richmond Centre, N. Y. In 1887 a small volume of her poems was published by her son.
Crudup, Josiah
congressman, was born in Wake county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1821 to 1823.
Cruft, Charles
soldier, was born in Indiana. He was commissioned an officer of volunteers from Indiana in 1862, and became a major-general of volunteers in 1865. He died March 23, 1883, in Terre Haute, Ind.
Cruger, Daniel
congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly a number of years; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1819.
Cruger, John
colonist, was born July 18, 1710, in New York city. He was an alderman for twenty-two years, and in 1739-44 was mayor of the city of New York. He was the author of the famous Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonist of America; and in 1768 was elected the first president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He died Dec. 27, 1792, in New York city.
Cruger, Mrs. Julia Grinnell
author. She is a popular novelist of New York city; and the author of A Diplomat's Diary; Poppaea; A Successful Man; A Wedding and Other Stories; Mademoiselle Réséda; and A Puritan Pagan.
Cruger, Mary
author, was born in 1834, in New York. She is a writer of Montrose, N. Y.; and the author of Hyperæsthesia; A Den of Thieves, or the Lay Reader of St. Mark's; The Vanderheyde Manor House; How She Did It; and Brotherhood.
Cruger, Stephen Van Rens- Selaer
soldier, public official, was born May 9, 1844, in New York city. He served in the civil war, and was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel. He is trustee and treasurer of St. Stephen's college of New York city, and of the New York Protestant Episcopal Public school. He was appointed park commissioner in 1895, and later president of the board.
Crum, John Darius
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 1, 1866, in Charleston, S. C. He received the rudiments of his education in the primary schools; graduated from the Avery institute in 1884; and in 1887 graduated in the medical department from the Howard university of Washington, D. C. He was at one time druggist-in-chief of the Freedmen's hospital of Washington, D. C.; and has attained prominence as a successful physician and surgeon of Jacksonville, Fla., where he has a lucrative practice. He is a member of the American Pharmaceutical association; a member of the Florida Medical association; and other prominent medical bodies.
CRUMMELL, ALEXANDER, clergyman, author, was born in 1819, in New York. He is a colored episcopal clergyman of Washington; and the author of The Future of Africa; Greatness of Christ, and Other Sermons; and Africa and America.
Crump, George William
physician, congressman, was born in Powhatan county, Va. He was a member of the legislature; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1826 to 1827 to fill a vacancy. He died in 1850.
Crump, Josephine B
poet, was born Sept. 13, 1841, in Blount county, Tenn. Her poems have appeared quite extensively in the local press.
Crump, Rousseau O
manufacturer, congressman, was born May 20, 1843, in Pittsford, N. Y. In 1884 the corporation of the Crump Manufacturing company was formed by him.
He is a member of the Wenona Lodge, Blanchard Chapter, Bay City Commandery, the Michigan Sovereign Consistory of Detroit, and Moslem Temple; and also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, and Knights of Pythias.
He cast his first vote for Lincoln; has served West Bay City as alderman for four years, and in the spring of 1892 was nominated and elected mayor of West Bay City and was re-elected in 1894. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican.
Crumpacker, Edgar D
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 27, 1851, in Laporte county, Ind. He was prosecuting attorney for the thirty-first judicial district of Indiana from 1884 to 1888; served as appellate judge in the state of Indiana from 1891-93; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.