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ehusetts. In 1853-55

lie

was a representative

from Massachusetts to the thirty-third congress. He died Feb. 10, 1883, in Boston, Mass. Crocker, Uriel, publisher, was born Sept.

Crockett, J. B., lawyer, jurist. In 1867-80 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of California. He died Jan. 15, 1884, in Fruitvale, Cal.

1796, in Marblehead, Mass. The first large work he published was Scott's Family Bible in six volumes. He died July, 19, 1887, in Caliasset, Mass. Crocker, Uriel Haskell, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 24, 1833, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston; and the author of The Cause of Hard Times; Excessive Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress; Notes

Crockett, John W., lawyer, congressman, in Trenton, Tenn.; and was the son of the celebrated David Crockett. In 1837-41 he was a representative from Tennessee to the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth congresses; and was elected by the legislature attorney general of the ninth district of Tennessee in 1841. He died Nov. 34, 1852,

Common Forms; and Notes on Statutes of Massachusetts. He died

Crockett, Montgomery Adams, physician, surgeon, author, was bora March 24, 1860, in Boston, Mass. Since 1885 he has practiced his profession in Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of Gynecology. Croes, John, bishop, was born June 1, 1762, in Elizabethtown, N.J. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of the diocese of New Jersey. He died July 30, 1832, in New Brunswick, N.J. Croes, John James Robertson, civil engineer, was born Nov. 25, 1834, in Richmond, Va. In 1853 he graduated from the college of

13,

on

in Boston,

General in 1902

Mass.

Crocker, William Henry, banker, financier, was born Jan. 13, 1861, in Sacramento, Cal. He has been engaged in banking since 1883; and is president of the Crocker national bank of San Francisco, Cal. Crockett, David, soldier, congressman, pioneer, author, poet, was born Aug. 17, 1786, in Limestone, Tenn.

He

is

a noted hunter

and pioneer who enlisted in the Texan

army

in

the

revolt

and was slain in the massacre at the Alamo, in San Antonio. He servagainst

Mexico ;

ed as a member of the Tennessee state legislature; and in 1837-31 and 1833-35 he was a representative from Texas to the twentieth, twenty-first

and

twenty-third congresses. He was the author of Tour to the North and Down East; Lifeof David Crockett, by Himself; Colonel Crockett's Exploits in Texas; Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir Apparent; and Leisure

Hour Musings in Rhyme. He was massacred March 6, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas. Crockett, Ingram, journalist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1856, in Henderson, Ky.; and is a son of John W. Ingram. He was educated in

the public schools

Henderson, Ky. now an eminent writer of that city. He is very prominently identified with the of

and

is

business and public affairs of his community; and has filled var-

ious positions of trust

honor. He is a of several fraternal and patriotic societies; and has contributed extensively to current literature. He is the author of Beneath Blue Skies

and

member

and Gray; A Year Book of Kentucky Woods and Fields; The Magic of the Woods; and numerous contributions to American literature.

was born

in

Memphis, Tenn.

St. James, Md.; and from 1855 his profession of civil engineer.

he followed In 1865-70 he was resident engineer of the first high masonry dam in the United States at Boyd's Corners, N.Y. and 1873-78 was topographical engineer for the New York park department. In 1885-91 he was chief engineer of the Suburban rapid transit railroad of New York City; and for the last twentyyears has been consulting engineer on design and construction of water supply and sewerage in all parts of the United States. In 1901 he was president of the American society of civil engineers. He was the author of the hydraulic articles in Appleton's Cyc;

lopedia;

and of numerous Monographs and

articles in engineering and lications. He died in 1906 in

Croffut, thor, was

Conn.

scientific pubYonkers, N.Y.

William Augustus, journalist, auhorn Jan. 29, 1836, in Redding, in the public schools; and received the degree of Ph.D. from the Union college. He is a

He was educated

well-known journalist attached journals,

to east

many

and west and connected with the United States geological survey since 1888. He is the author of The War History of Connecticut; and A Helping Hand; Bourbon Ballads; Desseret,

an opera; A Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of travels; The Vanderbilts; The Folks Next Door; The Prophecy and Other Poems; The Lord's Day or Man's; and Labor's Riddle Guessed At. Croft, Edmund, agriculturalist, statesman was born May 31, 1848, in Sydney, New