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 HERRIKGSHAWS LIBRAUT OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Croolce, Philip S., soldier, lawyer, congressMarch 2, 1810, in Poughkeepeie, N.y. He was elected a presidential elector in 1852; and was a member of the state legislature in 1863. He served forty years in

man, was

bom

the national guard of the state of New York from private to brigadier-general; and commanded the fifth brigade in Pennsylvania in 1863. In 1873-75 he was a representative from New York to the forty-third congress. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y. Crocker, Joseph Henry, clergyman, author, was bom Dec. 8, 1850, in Foxcroft, Maine. He was educated at the Norway academy of Maine; attended the Union seminary of Ypsilanti, Mich.; and received the degree of S.T.D. from St. Lawrence university and the degree of D.D. from the university of Nashville. He has filled pastorates in the unitarian church for four years at La Porte, Ind.; for ten years at Madison, Wis.; for six years at Helena, Mont.; for seven years at Ann Arbor, Mich.; and since 1904 in Roslindale, Boston, Mass. He is the author of Problems in American Society; The Growth of Christianity; A Plea for Sincerity; The Supremacy of Kindness; Religious

Freedom

in

American Education



and

other works. Crooker, Josiah B., railroad president, was born Aug. 3, 1828, at Sumner Hill, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; and in the academy at Homer, N.Y. In 1892 he entered railway service as He president of the Blue Island railroad. was subsequently, until 1895, general auditor of the Everett and Monte Cristo railway; and since 1895 has been its vice-president and general manager, with headquarters in Everett, Wash. Crooker, Turner, soldier, was bom in Massachusetts. In 1812 he became a captain in the ninth regiment United States infantry; and was promoted to major in 1814. He was brevetted major for distinction in com-

mand

of the

advance guard near Chippewa.

He was fiuent in French, and was master of the Chippewa and other Indian languages. He died June 6, 1859, in New York City. Crooks, Samuel Steams, manufacturer, was bom April 30, 1851, in Hopkinton, Mass.

In 1892 he started the business known as Sharood and Crooks, manufacturers of fine shoes Eind slippers; and in 1894 more than two thousand persons were engaged in this factory in St. Paul, Minn. Cropper, John, soldier, was born in 1756 in Virginia. He served in the revolutionary war; and attained the rank of colonel. Hie died Jan. 15, 1821. Cropsey, Jasper Francis, landscape painter, artist, was bom Feb. 18, 1823, in Bossville, N.Y. In 1837, at the age of thirteen, he received a diploma from the Mechanics

and American

New York

institute fairs of

City for architectural modeling. He received a medal and diploma for painting from the Philadelphia centennial exposition in 1876; and a medal for services in the London exhibition of 1862. His principal works are AuShowery Day. tumn on the Hudson; and He died June 22, 1900, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Crosbie, Henry R., lawyer, jurist. He was an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah. Crosby, Alpheus, educator, author, was born Oct. 13, 1810, in Sandwich, N.H. He was the author of Greek Lessons Greek Fables; Greek Tables; and First Lessons in Geometry. He died April 17, 1874, in Salem. Crosby, Alpheus Benning, army surgeon, was born Feb. 22, 1832, in Gilmanton, N.H. He was in the first regiment New Hampshire volunteers as surgeon; and was after-

A



ward

promoted

died Aug.

Crosby,

9,

to brigadier-surgeon. 1877, in Hanover, N.H.

Dick

J.,

educator,

author,

He was

Oct. 2, 1866, in Eldridge, Mich. He was educated in the rural schools of Eldridge, Mich.; and in 1893 he

bom

graduated from the Michigan agricultural college with the degrees of B.S. and M.S. In 1893-99 he was inEnglish structor of

In 1815 he became captain in the sixth regiment United States infantry; and was honorablv discharged in 1821. He died May 31, 1833."

Crooks, George Richard, clergyman, auwas born Feb. 3, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1841 he entered the ministry of the methodist episcopal church; and became a missionary in Illinois. He was the author of Life of John McClintock, Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books in Latin and Greek; and Latin-English Lexicon. He died Feb. 32, 1897, in Madison, N.J. Crooks, Ramsey, fur-trader, was bom Jan. 28, 1786, in Scotland. In 1809 he entered the service of John Jacob Astor; and in the following year he set out on an overland journey to Astoria; and subsequently he became president of the American fur company. Black Hawk said Mr. Crooks was the best pale-faced friend the red men ever had; and few chiefs from the northwest failed to see him when on their way to Washington.

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thor,

and

college editor at the Michigan agricultural college; and in 1900 was post-graduate student in the

same college. In 1901 he was appointed assistant in the office of the experimental station of the United States department of agriculture. He is the author of several Monographs on agricultural education; and on department bulletins, reports and circulars.

Crosby, Dixi, surgeon, was bom Feb. 8, 1800, in Sandwich, N.H. In 1824 he devised a new and ingenious mode of reducing metacarpo-phalangeal dislocation. After practis-