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colonial governor of Rhode Island.

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Island.

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Crapsey, Algernon Sidney, soldier, clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1847, in Fairmount, Ohio. He received his education _

Cranston, Thomas, lawyer, jurist. In 176364 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Khode Island. Crapo, Henry Howland, lumber manufacturer, state senator, governor, was born 34, 1804, in Dartmouth, Mass. He moved to Michigan in 1857; was the mayor of Flint; and served in the state senate. He was the thirteenth governor of the state in 1865-68, performing important services during the progress of the civil war. He died July 23, 1869, in Flint, Mich. Crapo, Philip M., soldier, statesman, financier, vas born June 30, 1844, in Freetown, Mass. He was prominent in the business

in the public schools; and early in life was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1862 he was a member of comseventy-ninth pany B, regiment Oliio volunteer infantry in the

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civil

and public

affairs

of

Burlington CSty, Iowa, where he served as president of the board of trustees of the free public

presi-

library;

dent of the board of commissioners; park president of the board trade; and president of the Commerof

cial

club.

prominent

Army

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was Grand

of the Republic

was

chiefly instrumental in the establishment of the Iowa soldiers' home; and was also one of the chief promoters of the Iowa soldiers' monument. He was a candiaffairs;

date for the state senate and for governor of Iowa. He was financial correspondent for the Connecticut mutual life insurance company. He secured for Burlington one of the most beautiful public parks in the west, which bears his name. He also built for the city ,the finest public library building in the state of Iowa, paying one-half the cost. He died in 1903 in Burlington, Iowa. Crapo, William Wallace, lawyer, railroad president, congressman, was born May 16, 18.'!0, in Dartmouth, Mass. He was educated in the public schools at Phillips'

Andover Aca-

demy, at Yale college and at Harvard law school. He was city collector of Bedford, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1857; and in 1875-83 he was a rep-

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resentative to the forty-fourth, fortyfifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. Since 1882 he has been president of the Flint, Pere and Marquette railroad; and also president of the Mechanics' national bank of New Bedford; president of the New Bedford institution for savings; and presi.dent of the Wamsutter mills.

war.

In 1863-67

was

engaged in business; and in 1867he

,

St. 72 studied at Stephen's college and 1873-79 seminary. In he was connected with Trinity church of New York City; and in 1879-1906 was rector of St. Andrew's church of Rochester, N.Y. He is the author of Five Joyful Mysteries; Voice in the Wilderness; The Descension oi Christendom; Sarah Thorne; The Greater Love; Religion and Politics; and The ReBirth of Religion.

Crary, Horace H., tanner, was born Aug. 29, 1824, in Liberty, N.Y. In different firms he is interested in tanneries at Sheffield,

and in the Penn and the Union tanning compaies, each of them virtually a syndicate of tanners. He was active in forming the United States leather company; and his interests are now merged therein. Crary, Isaac E., soldier, lawyer, congressin Preston, Conn. He moved to the territory of Michigan and was appointed a general of militia. He was elected a delegate to congress from the territory in 1835 and 1836; and in 1835-41 he was a representative from Michigan to the twentyfourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth congresses. He died May 8, 1854, in Marshall, Mich.

man, was born

Crater, George Edwin, soldier, lawyer, financier, explorer, author, was in 1870 in Colorado; and is a, member of an old

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Virginia family. He was educated in the private schools; studied the sciences and medicine; and became a successful lawyer. He has organized and has been seven times president of a national or state bank; and has organized over six hundred corporations, including railway companies, water com panics, light, industrial and mining corpor ations. He organized the first steamship com pany to operate between Seattle and Skag way and Dyea, Alaska. He has been an ex tensive traveler in all parts of the world. He organized the corporation to construct a railway in Persia from Teheran to the Persian gulf, which organization completed the greatest railway system the world has ever known, linking the railroads of Europe with India, and shortening the belting of the globe by twenty-one days. He is an authority as well as a pioneer in the field of adventure is an expert shot ; a noted yacht;