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Scotia. In 1892 he received the degree Ph.D. from Cornell university; and studied in the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. Since 1895 he has been professor of

Nova of

logic

He

and metaphysics at Cornell university. is

part

author

of

a

translation

of

Wundt's Human and Animal psychology; and a translation of Paulson's Kant. Creighton, James Hiram, educator, clergyman, was born March 30, 1843, in Clarke county, Ala. .--.'

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He was educated

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at the

West

Bend academy; and at the theological institute of East Lake, Ala. He has been a successful educator in public schools; and has filled pastorates in the Bap-

church at .Jackson, Suggsville, at Salitpa, and now fills a pastorate at Whatley, Ala. He has also been clerk and treasurer of the South Bethel associa-

tist

tion.

He

has contributed valuable articles

to current literature on educational ligious subjects.

and

re-

Creighton, John Andrew, banker, capitalist, Oct. 15, 1831, in Licking county, Ohio. In 1861 he built a telegraph line from Salt Lake to Helena, Mont. He is president of the State saving bank of Butte City; and of the Union stock yards Kational bank of

was born

Omaha, Nob. Creighton, John Orde, naval officer, was born about 1785, in New York City. In 1813 he became master-commandant; and in 1816 was made captain. In 1829-30 he commanded the squadron on the coast of Brazil. He died Oct. 13, 1838, in Sing Sing, N.Y. Creighton, Johnston Blakeley, naval officer, was born Nov. 12, 1822, in Rhode Island. He became a commodore in 1874; was commandant of the Norfolk navy-yard in 1879; and was retired with the rank of rear-admiral in 1883. He died Nov. 12, 1883, in Morristown, N.J. Creighton, William, congressman, was bom Oct. 29, 1778, in Berkeley county, Va. He

was the first secretary of state for Ohio; and in 1813-17 and 1827-33 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirteenth, fourteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twentysecond congresses. Chillicothe, Ohio.

He

died Oct.

8,

1851, in

Creighton, William, clergyman, was born New York City. In 1816-36 he was rector of St. Mark's in New York City; and in 1836-65 was rector of Christ church of Tarrytown, N.Y. He died April 23, 1865, in 1793, in

in

Tarrytown, N.Y.

Creighton, William, lawyer, jurist. He was appointed United States judge for the district of Odio. He died in Ohio. Crele, Joseph, centenarian, was born in 1725 in Detroit, Mich. He bore arms at Braddock's defeat; and before the revolution was

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employed in carrying letters between Prairie du Chien and Green Bay. He settled in Wisconsin during the revolutionary war. Jan. 27, 1866, in Caledonia, Wis.

He

died

Crenshaw, Anderson, lawyer, jurist, was born May 22, 1783, in S. Carolina. He removed to Alabama about 1819, and held the offices of judge of the circuit court in 183138, being also until 1832 judge of the supreme court and chancellor of the southern division of the state from the organization of a separate court of chancery in 1838-47. He died in 1847 in Alabama.

Crenshaw, B. Miles, lawyer, jurist. In 1857 he was chief justice of the supreme court of

Kentucky. Crenshaw, Walter Henry, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born July 7, 1817, in Abbeville district, S. C. In 1838-67 he was a member of either the upper of lower house ot the Alabama legislature; also officiated as speaker of the house in 1861-65; and was president of the state senate in 1865-67. He died in 1878 in Alabama. Crerar, John, capitalist, philanthropist, was born March 8, 1827, in New York City. He was of Scottish parentage, and was educated in New York City. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, until his removal to Chicago in 1863. There he became head of Crerar,

Adams and company. He was

also

an

incorporator and director of the Pullman palace oar company; a director of the Chicago and Alton railroad company; and a member of many important civic organizations. In 1888 he was a presidential elector for the first district of Illinois on the Republican ticket. He left a fortune of nearly four million dollars, of which one million dollars was bequeathed to various charitable and religious associations in Chicago. He contributed one hundred thousand dollars for a colossal statue of Abraham Lincoln; and two million five hundred thousand dollars as an endowment fund for a public library, organized in 1894 and now in successful operation in Chicago, under the name of the John Crerar library. He died Oct. 19, 1889, in Chicago, 111. Cressey, George Croswell, educator, clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1856, in Buxton, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin college and Andover theological seminary; and took a post graduate course in Yale and Leipzig universities; and has received the degrees of Ph.D. and D.D. He filled the chair of modern languages in Washburn college.

He

is a. successful clergyman of the unitarian church and fills the pastorate in Northampton, Mass. He is the author of The Essential Man; Mental Evolution; Philosophy of Religion; The Doctrine of Immortality in Liberal Thought; and numerous published sermons and addresses. Cresson, Elliott, philanthropist, was bom March 2, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the society of friends; became a successful merchant in Philadelphia; and