Crumrine, Boyd – Cumback, Will
Crumrine, Boyd
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 9, 1838, in Washington county, Pa. In 1861-62 he served in the civil war, in the eighty-fifth Pennsylvania volunteers. From 1865-68 he was district attorney of Washington county, Pa. He is the author of a work entitled Omnium Gatherum; and in 1882 he composed a large part and edited the whole of The History of Washington County.
Crunden, Frederick Morgan
librarian, author, was born Sept. 1, 1847, in England. In 1877 he was appointed librarian of the public library of St. Louis, which position he still holds. He has contributed extensively to the Library Journal and other periodicals.
Cruse, Christian Frederick
clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1794, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city whose translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius is a standard English version. He died Oct. 5, 1864, in New York city.
Cruse, Mary Anne
educator, author, was born in 18- in Alabama. Besides a novel of the Civil War, Cameron Hall, she has written several popular Sunday-school books, such as The Little Episcopalian, and Bessie Melville.
Crutchfield, William
farmer, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1826, in Greeneville, Tenn. He was elected to the forty-third congress from Tennessee.
Cruttenden, Daniel Henry
educator, author, was born Feb. 27, 1816, in Galway, N. Y. He was an educator of New York city, among whose textbooks are Systematic Arithmetic Series; The Philosophy of Language; and Rhetorical Grammar. He died June 21, 1874, in Castleton, N. Y.
Cubbison, James K
lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1861 in Harrisville, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of Kansas City, Mo.; was elected to the Kansas state legislature in 1892, and reelected in 1894 and in 1896.
Cuckson, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1846 in England. He is a unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Arlington Street church from 1892; and the author of Faith and Fellowship.
Cudahy, Michael
packer, was born Dec. 7, 1841, in Ireland. He is the oldest of four brothers. William died when thirty-seven years of age. John and Patrick succeeded John Plankinton and Company, of Milwaukee, in their packing business, under the firm name of Cudahy Brothers.
Cudmore, P
soldier, lawyer, historian, poet, was born June, 1831, in Ireland. After leaving the monastery of Dungarvan, he studied mathematics at the best academy in Munster. He emigrated to America in 1846; studied law; took a course of lectures on anatomy at Bellevue hospital; and a course of lectures at the Cooper institute. He ther traveled in Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America. In 1853 he moved to Dane county, Wis., and in 1855 was elect ed a justice of the peace, and became a popular lawyer and public speaker. In 1856 he moved to Minnesota, and the following year settled in Faribault. In 1860 he commenced delivering lectures on Ireland, Mexico and Peru; and in 1862 mustered in as a soldier and served three years, first in company H, tenth regiment, Minnesota infantry volunteers, which he was instrumental in raising; and subsequently joined the sixteenth army corps. He is the author of Cudmore's Constitutional History; Cudmore's Irish Republic; Cudmore's Poems and Songs; Cudmore's Battle of Clontarf and Other Poems; Buchanan's Conspiracy, the Nicaragua Canal and Reciprocity; Cudmore's Cleveland's Mal-Administration; and other works.
Culberson, David B
was born Sept. 29, 1830, in Troupe county, Ga. He was elected to the Texas legislature in 1859. He entered the confederate army in 1862 as a private, and rose to be an adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel. In 1864 he was elected to the legislature of Texas, and subsequently to the state senate. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Culbertson, Kennedy Russell
soldier, iron manufacturer, was born May 12, 1840, in Knightstown, Ind. He is one of the owners of the Cherokee iron works in Alabama; is one of the most skillful and successful iron men in the country; and has been largely concerned, with his brother and others, in bringing about many valuable changes in iron manufacture.
Culbertson, Matthew Simpson
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Chambersburg, Pa. He was a presbyterian missionary to China; and is the author of Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions in North China. He died in August, 1862, in China.
Culbertson, William C
farmer, lumberman, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1825, in Erie county, Pa. He is a successful farmer and lumberman of Girard, Pa. He was elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a republican. was
Culbertson, William Wirt
soldier, state senator, congressman, born Sept. 23, 1835, in Mifflin county, Pa.
He removed to Ohio; entered the union army as a captain in 1861, and served three years. He was elected state senwas ator, and served four years, and elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-eighth congress. gress. He built and started the ferry at Ashland, Ky., and has been prominently identified with the business development of Kentucky.
Culbreth, Thomas
congressman, was born in Kent county, Del. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1817 to 1821.
Cullen, Elisha D
congressman, was born in Delaware. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fourth congress.
Cullen, William
farmer, journalist, congressman, was born March 4, 1826, in Ireland. In 1846 he moved to Illinois, and was sheriff of La Salle county, and held other local offices. He became part owner and senior editor of the Ottawa Republican newspaper. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.
Cullom, Alvan
lawyer, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He served frequently in the legislature of Tennessee; was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1845 to 1847; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.
Cullom, Shelby Moore
lawyer, legislator, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 22, 1829, in Wayne county, Ky. He was elected city attorney of Springfield; was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1856; was: again elected to the legislature in 1860, and was chosen speaker. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected both to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. He was again elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1872, and again chosen speaker; was re-elected in 1874; and in 1876 was elected governor of Illinois for the term of four years, and was re-elected in 1880. In 1883 he was elected a senator of the United States for the term of six years from March 4, 1883, and resigned the office of governor. His term expires in 1901.
Cullom, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1851 to 1855.
Cullum, George Washington
soldier, author, was born Feb. 25, 1809, in New York city. He is a brevet majorgeneral in the United States army; and the author of Military Bridges with India- Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military academy at West.
Point, 1802-90; and System of Military Bridges. He died Feb. 28, 1892, in New York city.
Culpepper, John
clergyman, congressman, was born in Anson county, N. C. He represented that state in congress from 1807 to 1808, when his seat was. vacated by resolution of the house. He was re-elected, and served from 1813 to 1817, from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1825. He was a baptist preacher; and was elected to the general assembly, but. his seat was vacated on constitutional grounds.
Culver, Charles Vernon
business man, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1830, in Logan, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress.
Culver, Erastus D
congressman, was born in New York. He served in the assembly of New York in 1838 and 1841; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.
Culwer, Daniel
pioneer, was born in 1793 in Maryland. He was the first American that went to upper California, and the first that built a house in San Francisco (on the same ground now occupied by the Palace hotel). He was also the founder of the town of Santa Barbara. He died in 1857 in California.
Culyer, John Yapp
civil engineer, was born May 18, 1839, in New York city.
He has acted in the capacity of associate engineer to the Albany parks, to the parks and the riverside improvement in Chicago, and to the state capitol grounds in Nashville.
Cumback, Will
educator, lawyer, congressman, poet, was born March 24, 1829, in Franklin county, Ind. He taught school for one or two years; attended the law school at Cincinnati, and adopted the legal profession; and was elected a representative from Indiana in the thirty-fourth congress. He was a presidential elector in 1861; and during that year was appointed an additional paymaster in the army. In 1868 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Indiana. He is also a successful lecturer and the author of a number of meritorious poems.