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20 Ohio for the American party. He was afterward employed as agent of the St. Louis and Arizona mining eompany, in which he subsequently became a large stdckliolder. In 1858 he made atrip across the plains, taking the first steam-engine and the first printing-press that ever crossed the Rocky moun- tains. In 1860 he held a lieutenant-colonel's com- mission in the Mexican army, and when the news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached him he was in command of a large garrison at El Fuerte. He at once resigned, and hastened to Concord, N. H., where he offered his services to the governor of the state, organized the 5th New Hampshire regiment, and was commissioned as its colonel. Under his command the regiment distinguished itself in many Important engagements, and won an enviable reputation for bravery, becoming known as the " Fighting Fifth." He was mortally wounded at the battle of Gettysburg while leading the 1st bri- gade of the 1st division, 2d army corps. He had been several times wounded before, and Gen. Han- cock had strongly recommended his promotion to brigadier-general, but, though he had commanded a brigade for several months with conspicuous gallantry, it was delayed, as has been claimed, through political influence. Col. Cross was the author of numerous poems and prose sketches, written under the pen-name of Richard Everett.

CROSS, George Dilwyn, jurist, b. in Westerly, R. I., 24 Jan., 1799 ; d. there, 1 Oct., 1872. He was educated at a private school in Lebanon, Conn., and entered public life in 1821. Pie served six terms in the general assembly, was state senator in 1826-'85 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 fix- ing the boundary-line between Connecticut and Rhode Island. In 1842, and again in 1853, he was elected a member of the conventions to amend the state constitution. He held many offices of honor and trust in his native town, interesting himself especially in the matter of free schools.

CROSS, Joseph, clergyman and author, b. in East Brent, Somersetshire, England, 4 Jvdy, 1813. He came to the United States in 1825, and in 1829 entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in Genesee, N. Y. He was for some time professor of English literature in Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky., and became prominent in the southern branch of the church. He was a member of the Nashville general conference of 1856 and its official reporter, and principal of a female seminary at Spartanburg, S. C. He entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1866, and, after holding pastorates at Houston, Tex., Buffalo, N. Y., St. Louis, and other places, became in 1885 rector of the church at Las Vegas, New Mexico. Among his publications are " Head- lands of Faith " ; " Life and Sermons of Christmas Evans," from the Welsh ; " The Hebrew Mission- ary " (Nashville, Tenn., 1855) ; "Pisgah Views of the Promised Inheritance," a series of dissertations on the unaccomplished prophecies (New York, 1856) ; " A Year in Europe " (1859) ; " Gospel Workers " (Baltimore, 1861) ; " Stories and Illustra- tions of the Ten Commandments" (New York, 1862) ; " Illustrations of the Shorter Catechism " (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1865) ; " Prelections on Charity"; " Edens of Italy" (New York, 1882); " Knight Banneret " (1882) ; " Coals from the Altar " (2 vols., 1883) ; "Pauline Charity " (1883) ; and "Old Wine and New" (1884). The last four are collections of sermons. Dr. Cross has also compiled a " Church Reader for Lent " (1885). —His wife, Jane Tandy Chinn, author, b. in Harrodsburg. Ky., in 1817; d. in Elizabelhtown, Ky., in October, 1870, married James P. Hardin, a lawyer, in 1835, but he died in 1842, leaving her with three ciiildren, and in 1848 she married Dr. Cross. Mrs. Cross devoted more than twenty years to the education of young ladies, in which she was eminently successful. During a trip through Europe with Dr. Cross, she wrote letters to the '• Christian Advocate," and also to the Charleston " Courier," and contributed largely to the Nashville " Home Monthly " and other periodicals. During the civil war she sympathized strongly with the south, and at one time she and her two daughters were arrest- ed, tried by a military tribunal, and sent to jail. Her works, all published in Nashville, Tenn., be- tween 1860 and 1870, include " Heart Blossoms for my Little Daughters " ; " Wayside Flowerets " ; " Bible Gleanings " ; " Drift- Wood " ; " Gonzalvo de Cordova," a translation from the Spanish of Flo- rian ; " Duncan Adair," a stniy of the civil war ; and " Azile," a story partly of southern experiences during the war (1868).

CROSS, Trueman, soldier, b. in Maryland ; d. near the present Fort Brown, Texas, 21 April. 1846. He entered the army as ensign in the 42d infantry, 27 April, 1814 ; became assistant deputy quarter- inaster-general, with the rank of captain, 16 June, 1818 ; major-quartermaster, 22 May, 1826 ; and assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel, 7 July, 1838. He was chief of the quartermaster's department of the army of occu- pation from 10 Oct., 1845, till his death, which he met at the hands of Mexican banditti. Col. Cross published " Military Laws of the United States " (Washington). — His brother, Osborne, soldier, b, in Maryland in 1803 ; d. in New York city, 15 July, 1876, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1825, assigned to the infantry, and served on garrison, frontier, and commissary duty. He was made first lieutenant on 31 Dec, 1831, assistant quartermaster, 1 Jan., 1836, and became captain in the first infantry, 7 July, 1838. He was chief quartermaster of Wool's division in 1846-'7, and of the Army of Mexico in 1848, promoted to major on 24 July, 1847, and served until the civil war, during which he was chief quartermaster of various posts and camps. He was made deputy quartermaster-general, 26 Feb., 1863, and on 13 March, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army. He was promoted to colonel, 29 July, 1866, and on the same day was retired.

CROSWELL, Andrew, clergyman, b. in Charles- town, ]\Iass., in 1709 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 12 April, 1785. He was graduated at Harvard in 1728, or- dained in Groton, Conn., 14 Oct., 1738, and on 6 Oct., 1738, was installed over a society in Bos- ton formed by persons from other churches. He was active as a controversialist. Among his numerous publications are " Reply to a Book en- titled ' A Display of God's Special Grace ' " (1742) ; " The Apostle's Advice to the Jailor Improved ; being a Solemn "Warning against the Awful Sin of Soul-Murder " (1744) ; " Heaven Shut against Ar- minians and Antinomians " (1747) ; " Remarks on Bishop Warburton's Sermon before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel " (1768) ; and " Re- marks on the Satirical Drollery at Cambridge, Last Commencement Day " (1771).

CROSWELL, Charles Miller, statesman, b. in Newburg, N. Y., 31 Oct., 1825 ; d. in Adrian, Mich., 13 Dec, 1886. He was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade in Adrian, but in his twentieth year began the study of law, and soon became deputy county clerk. In 1850 he was city registrar, and was re-elected in 1852. Mr. Croswell became