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80 African, his mother a free woman. He received his education in Canaan and Oneida, N. Y., and was the second ordained colored minister of his country, having pursued his theological studies under i)r. A. H. Vinton, of Providence, and being ordained by Bishop Lee, of Delaware. His posi- tion here was so unpleasant that he went to Eng- land, entered Cambridge university after preach- ing there and elsewhere, and was graduated in 1853. Going to Africa, he became a rector and professor of Liberia college, where he remained until 1873. Prom that year until 1894 Dr. Crum- niell was rector of St. Luke's church, Washing- ton, where ho erected a fine stone building supple- mented by a parish hall. On his retirement as rector emeritus of St. Luke's he was elected presi- dent of the Colored ministry union, and in 1885 he was appointed a member of the commission for church-work among the colored people.

CUESTAS, Juan Lisboa, Uruguayan presi- dent, b. in Paysandu, 6 .Jan., 1837. He studied in Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, and returned to Pay.sandii as secretary of Col. Ambrosio Sandes. In 1865 he was appointed a member of the board of public instruction, and later filled an important position in the Banco Italiano of Montevideo, act- ing afterward as manager of the branch office in Paysandu. In 1870 was appointed receiver of the custom-house of Salto, and also auditor. In 1877 the administration of Col. Latorre intrusted 1o him the organization of taxes anil real estate, besides that of the public debt. In 1879 he was appointed collector of custom-houses, and in 1880 secretary of the treasury. In 1886 President Francisco Vidal selected him as secretary of state, which he afterward resigned and went to Buenos Ayres as minister of LTniguay. In 1887 Mr. Cues- tas returned to Montevideo, acting as substitute for Senator-General Santos, who was in Europe, and in 1891 as representative, being re-elected in 1894 for Montevideo. In 1891 Paysandu elected him senator, and in 1897 he was appointed presi- dent of the senate. When in August, 1898, Presi- dent Idiarte Borda was shot by a political fanatic, Mr. Cuestas was given charge of the public ad- ministration, and after a turbulent period he WHS almost unanimously elected president of the republic, in March, 1899, by a vote of seventy-five members of the assembly.

CURTIS, James Langdon, presidential candi- date, b. in Stratford, Conn., 19 Feb., 1816. He was educated in his native town, and engaged in business in New York city, where, as colonel of the 9th regiment, he did good service in putting down the hour riots in 1835. He was nommated by the Labor party for governor of Connecticut in 1884, and in 1888 became the candidate of the national American partv for president

CURTIS, William Eleroy, journalist, b. in Akron, Ohio, 5 Nov., 1850. He was graduated from the Western Reserve college, selecting jour- nalism as his profession,and being for fourteen years on the staff of the Chicago " Inter-Ocean." Since 1887 he has been the Washington correspondent of the Chicago " Record." He had charge of the Columbus manuscripts at the expo.sition of 1893. Mr. Curtis is the author of "The Land of the Ni- hilist " (New York, 1888) : " The Capitols of .Span- ish America" (1888); "Christopher Columbus Portraits" (Chicago, 1893); "Venezuela" (1896); " The Yankees of the East : Japan " (Chicago, 1896); "The United States and Foreign Powers" (1897): and "To-day in France and Germany."

CUSHING, William, author, b. in Lunenburg, Mass., 15 May, 1811 : d. in Cambridge, Mass.. 27 Aug., 1895. His brother, Edmund Lambert (1807- '83),waschief justice of New Hampshire in 1874-'6; another brotherwas Luther Stearns. William was graduated at Harvard in 1832, and at the divinity- school there in 1839, and pi-eached till 1857, when he removed to a farm in Clinton, Mass. He went to Cambridge in 1868, became library assistant in the Harvard library, and after 1878, when he was dis- charged, engaged in literary pursuits. He spent several years in collecting material for a volume entitled"" The Century of Authors, 1778-1880," the manuscript of which was acquired by the publish- ers of the " Cyclopa'dia,'' and has been used in its preparation. His published books are " Index to the North American Review" (Boston, 1878); " Index to the Christian Examiner " (1879) ; and "Initials and Pseudonyms" (1885-'8).