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Rh major to brigadier-general. Resuming the practice of the law at the close of the war, he became judge of the superior court of North Carolina, and later was elected to congress. Gen. Cox is now (1899) secretary of the U. S. senate. He is a son-in-law of the late Dr. Lyman, bishop of his native state.

COXE, Daniel, author, b. in London, England, in 1674; d. in Trenton, N. J.. 25 April, 1739. He was the son of Dr. Daniel Coxe, of London, who was proprietor of extensive lands in West Jersey. Daniel came to this country in 1703, and at various times was a member of the royal council, speaker of the assembly, and associate justice of the su- preme court of New Jersey, which post he held from 1734 until his death. Ue was an able law- yer and a zealous churchman. Several of his let- ters are published in the " History of the Church in Burlington," by the Rev. George Morgan Hills, D. D. (Trenton. 1876). While visiting London he published "A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards called Florida, and by the French Ija I»uisiane" (Ijondon, 1722). In his " curious preface " he sketches what is believed to be the original plan for an American union, which was subsequently a<lopted, to bind together the thirteen states. Richard Stockton Field, in his " Provincial (Jourts of New Jersey " (New York, 1849), says: "It was, in fact, the very plan which was recommended by Dr. Franklin to the conven- tion at Albany in 1754 for the purpose of forming a league with the six nations and concerting meas- ures for united o|)erations against the encroai^b- ments of the F^rench. This plan of Dr. Franklin's, which has been described as the Albany plan of union, figures largely in our histories, and is thought to have been one of those original con- ceptions for which he was so famous. And yet it was little more than a transcript of the design sketched by Coxe many years before, and which would seem to have originated with him." A slab in front of the chancel of St. Mary's church in Burlington, N. J., marks his burial-place.

CRADDOCK, Charles Egbert. See Mibfbee, Mary Noailles.

CRAGIE, Pearl Mary, author, b. in Ik)ston, 3 Nov., 1867. Her name was Richards, and after completing her education at University college, Ix>ndon, she married there Reginald Walpole Craigie, from whom she obtaine<l a separation and the custody of their child in 1895. Mrs. Craigie resides in England, and is the author of the follow- ing novels and plays, all published under her pen- name of John Oliver Hohbes: ".Some Emotion, and a Moral" (New York, 1891); "The Sinner's CoraetIy"(1892);"AStudvinTein|.UIions"(189;t); "A Bundle of Life" (1895); "The Gods. Some Mortals," and " Lord Wickenham " (1895); "The Herb Moon" (1896); ".S<;hool for Saints" (1897); "The Ambassador,aComedv"(1898); " The Tales of Oliver John Hol)l>es" (lWt9): nnd " Tlic Life of Jami's Anthony Kroude" (Kilinlnirgh, 181)9).

CRAMP, Charles Henry, shiphuilder. b. in Philadelphia, 9 Mav, 1828. He was educated at the Central high scfiool ami then learned the ship- building trade, later becoming a (wrtner in the Arm of William Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia. He is now president of the Cramp shipbuilding company, the largest in the country, employing about 6,000 workmen. During the past quarter of a century the (!rainps have built many of the finest naval and merchant vc-sxels now afloat. In their yards the powerful biittle-ship "Maine "is at pres- ent in course 'of construction, also the fa-st battle- ship " Alabama." — Henry W., a brother of Charles, is vice-president of the company.

CRAMP, Thomas, Canadian shipbuilder, b. in London, Englimd, in 1827; d. in Montreal, Canada. 18 Feb., 1885. He came to Canada in 184.5, settled in Montreal as a merchant, and forming a partner- ship with David Torrence and son. under the firm name of D. Torrence & Co., he began the enter- prise of establishing the Mississippi (now Do- minion) line of ocean steamships. As president of the Montreal btsird of trade and chairman of the harbor commission, he did much for the im- provement of the harbor and the deepening of the ship channel. A month before his death he be- came president of the Corn exchange of Montreal.

CRANE, Stephen, author, b. in Newark, N. J., 1 Nov., 1871. He was educated in his native city and at Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., but left dur- ing his college course, at the age of sixteen, to enter journalism, and was for several years occupied as a reporter and in writing newspaper sketches. His first pul)lished bcx)k, " The Red Badge of Courage " (1896), a story of the civil war. gained instant suc- cess on both sides of the Atlantic. The writer was commonly supiiosed for some time ir England to be a veteran soldier who was relating the story of his actual experiences. Mr. Crane now retired from general journalism, and has since devoted himself chiefly to writing stories. In 1897, when on the way to Culm, he was shipwrecked, and spent some time in an o[)en boat before he was rescued. Besides the book mentioned above, Mr. Crane has published " Maggie : A Girl of the Streets." written in 1891, and at that time put into type by the author, but not published till 1896; "George's Mother" (1896); "The Little Regiment" (1897); "The Third Violet" (1897); and "Poems" (1899).

'''CRANE. William Henry''', actor, b. in Leices- ter, Mass., 12 March. 1845. He made his first ap- pearance on the stage at Ctica. IxH-ame a leading comedian in Chicago, and in 1877 appeared with Stuart I{ol)Son at the Park theatre. New York. He continued with Mr. liolison for twelve years, and has since appeare<l in star roles in " The Senator," "For Money," "The American Minister," "A Vir- ginia Courtship." " Peter Stuyvcsant, Governor of New York." and many other plays.

CRANFILL, Janies Britton, editor, b. in Parker county, Tex., 12. Sept., 1858. He received a common-school education in Gonzales county, of the state, studie<l for the Baptist ministry, and later Iwcame editor of "The Baptist Stan'dani." In June. 1892. he was nominated candidate for vice-president, with John Bidwell, of California, for president, by the national Prohibition party at its convention in the oilv of Cincinnati.

CRAVEN, John Joseph, surgeon, b. in New York city, 1823; d. there, Feb. 14, 1893. Ue was surgeon of the Ist New Jersey volunteers, the first regiment from that State to take the field in the civil war. He was the fifth candidate to qual- ify as brigade surgeon, and wits placed in charge of the medical department of the expedition to South Carolina under Gen. Horatio (J. Wright, afterward Incoming medical director of the de- pariment of the Sfiuth. He was brevetted lieuten- ant-colonel, and directed the medical equipment of the expedition apainst Fort Wagner and Fort Sumter. Afterwarcihe acted as medical director of the lOtli army-corps in Virginia with Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore. and still later as medical di- rector of the department of Virginia and North Camlina. While filling the latter position Dr. Craven was given full charge of Jefferson Davis <liiring his incarceration as prisoner of war. He retired from the service soon after the war. and wrote a work on the prison life of Jefferson Davis,