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eled extensively through Europe and Asia. He is the author of thirty-uve books entitled Through the Eye to the Heart; Wagons for Eye Gate; 'irophies of Song; Childhood, the Textbook of the Age; The Ideal

Sunday School; The Two Chains; The Coming Man is the Present Child; Normal Outlines; Rescue of Child-Soul; Normal HalfHours; Plain Uses of the Blackboard; Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus; Teachers' Edition of the Revised Testament; Successful men of To -Day; Must the Old Testament Go? Talks and Stories of Heroes and Holidays; The Sabbath for Man; Rhetoric Made Race; The Temperance Century; Reading the Bible with Relish; The Gvil Sabbath; of Christ Down the Centuries; Studies; Internationalism; and

The March Patriotic

World Book

of Temperance.

Crafts, William, lawyer, journalist, legislator, poet, was born Jan. 24, 1787, in Charleston, S.C. He was a noted lawyer and journalist of ^narleston, S.C; and for several terms was a member of the South Carolina state leeislature, and the author of numerous orations, essays and poems. He died Sept. 23, 1826, in Lebanon Springs, N.Y. Crafts, William Augustus, journalist, author, was born in 1819. He is the author of Life of General Grant; History of the United States; and Pioneers in the Settlement ot

America. Cragin, Aaron H., lawyer, congressman. United States senator, was bom Feb. 3, 1821, in Weston, Vt. He removed to Lebanon, N. H. was a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1852-55; and in 1855-59 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. In 1859 he was again elected a member of the state legislature; and in 1865-77 he was United States senator from New Hampshire. He died in 1898 in New Hamp;

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manufacturer, legislator, Merrimack, N.H. In 1875-76 he served as a representative in Cragin,

Daniel,

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New Hampshire legislature.

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a successful mechanic and manufacis

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inent part in the public affairs of Wilton,

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mittees; and took an active part in the passage of numerous bills that tended to the welfare and prosperity of his state. Cragin, Edward Bradford, physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 23, 1859, in Colchester, Conn. He is the author of Essen-

tials of Gynecology; and is one of the authors of American Textbook on Gynecology. Cragin, Francis Whittemore, journalist, educator, naturalist, geologist, was born on Sept. 4, 1858, in Greenfield, N.H. In 1882-91 he was professor of natural history in Washburn college of Topeka, Kan.; and in 189293 was assistant geologist of Texas geological survey. He was editor and proprietor of the American Geologist; and for several years since 1891 has been professor of geology in Colorado college of Colorado Springs. Craider, Frederick, revolutionary veteran. He fought in the continental army; and was a veteran also of the war of 1813-15. He died in August, 1866, in Meadville, Miss. Craig, Alexander Johnson, journalist, educator, was born Nov. 11, 1823, in Goshen, N. Y. He became principal of a Milwaukee school in 1854; and in 1858-59 edited the Wisconsin Journal of Education at Racine and Madison, Wis. In 1859-60 he was a member of the legislature. He was president of the state teachers' association; and in 1868-70 was state superintendent of schools. He died July 5, 1870, in Madison, Wis. Craig, Alexander Kerr, soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1828, in Washington county. Pa. In 1865 he served in the civil war. In 1891-93 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-second congress. He died July 29, 1893, in Claysville, Pa. Craig, Alfred M., farmer, lawyer, jurist. In 1861-65 he was judge of Knox county, 111.; and was a delegate to the Illinois constitutional convention in 1870. Since 1873 he has been justice of the supreme court of Illinois for the fifth district. Craig, Craig, soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 10, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He represented Philadelphia in the legislature in 1849-50. In 1875 he became a judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, Pa. Craig, Gallatin, lawyer, jurist, in 1899 he was judge of the fourth circuit court of Missouri at Maryville. Craig, George H., soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in Cahaba, Ala. He served as first lieutenant of infantry in the confederate service. In 187480 he was judge of the first judicial circuit. He was elected to the forty-eighth congress. Craig, Hector, congressman, was born in Orange county, N.Y. In 1823-35 and 1829-30 he was a representative from New York to the eighteenth and twenty-first congresses. He died in New York. Craig, Henry Knox, soldier, was bom in

Pennsylvania. In 1813 he was first lieutenant in the second artillery in the United States army; served in the' Mexican war aa major; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral. He died Dec. 7, 1869. Craig, Isaac B., lawyer, statesman, was bom April 38, 1856, in Coles county, HI. He was educated in the public schools of Charles-