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Cross, Anson Kent, educator, artist, inventor, author, was born Deo. 6, 1863, in Lawrence, Mass. Since 1883 he has been a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts state normal art school; and since 1891 has been an instructor in the school of drawing and painting of the museum of fine arts at Boston, Mass. He invented the steam

rotary

snow

plow

when

fifteen years of age; and since 1886 has issued fifteen patents. He has recently invented machines for delivering change and tickets which promises to revolutionize all present methods. In 1887 he received a bronze medal from the Massachusetts charitable mechanics association of Boston for an artist's easel; in 1889 received another for the same article from the Paris exposition; and in 1893 received a bronze medal from the Massachusetts charitable mechanics association for landscape painting. He is the author of six textbooks for art students and teachers; is also the author of national drawing books for public school use, including five textbooks and two teachers' manuals. Cross, David Wallace, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 17, 1814, in Pulaski, N.Y. He was u Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a sportsman. He was the author of Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun. He died April 9, 1891, in Cleveland, Ohio. Cross, Edward, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was bom in Tennessee. He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Arkansas. In 1839-43 he was a representative to the twenty-sixth and twentyseventh congresses. In 1845 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Arkansas. He died in Arkansas. Cross, Edward Ephraim, soldier, journalist, pioneer, was born April 22, 1832, in Lancaster, N.H. In 1854 he was editor of the Cincinnati Times. He took the first steam engine and printing press across the Rocky Mountains in 1858. He served in the Mexican army as a lieutenant-colonel; and served in 1860-63 as a colonel in the fifth regiment New Hampshire volunteers. He died July 2, 1863, near Gettysburg, Pa. Cross, George Dilwyn, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was bom Jan. 24, 1799, in Wes-

He

served six terms in the general assembly; and was state senator in 1826-35 and 1848-50. He was chief justice of the court of common pleas for Washington county in 1837-49; and in 1840 was one of the commissioners for fixing the boundary line between Connecticut and Rhode Island. He died Oct. 1, 1872, in Westerly, R.I. terly, R.I.

Cross,

was born

Gorham, clergyman,

abolitionist,

Oct. 4, 1808, in Goffstown,

N.H.

a teacher, surveyor, ana studied law In 1839 he became pastor of the Richville congregational church; and was its regular pastor for forty years. He was known as Father Cross, the father of congregationalism in Northern New York, He died May 10, 1895, in Richville, N.Y.

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Cross, James B., lawyer, jurist, was bom in 1817 in Geneva, N.Y. He served as mayor of Milwaukee in 1855-58. He was the first probate judge under the state la.w; and in 1857 came within five hundred votes of defeating Alexander W. Randall for governor. He died in 1876 in Milwaukee, Wis. Cross, Mrs. Jane Tandy, author, was bom She was the 1817 in Harrisburg, Ky. author of Wayside Flowerets; Heart BlosLittle Daughters; Bible Gleansoms for ings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a translation from the Spanish; and Duncan Adair, a novel. She died in October, 1870, in in

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Elizabethtown, Ky. Cross, Joseph, clergyman, author, was bom 4; 1S13, in England. In 1829-1856 he was a prominent methodist divine. He was the author of Headlands of Faith; Pisgah Year Views of the Promised Inheritance; in Europe; Coals from the Altar; Pauline Charity; Prelections on Charity; and Old Wine and New. He died in 1893.

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Cross, Judson Newell, soldier, educator, lawyer, was born Jan. 16, 1838. in Philadelphia, N.Y. He attended Oberlin college of Ohio and the Albany law school of New

York.

He was

first

lieutenant and captain of the seventh Ohio infantry in 1861adjutant-general 65; of the military district of Indiana in 1864, after being wounded in battle; and in 186465 was on the military governor's staff department at Washington, B.C. In 1866-75 he practiced law in Lyons, Iowa and was mayor of that city in 1871-73. In 1875-1905 he practiced law in Minneapolis, Minn.; and in 1883-87 served three terms as city attorney. In 1891 he was a member of the immigration committee sent by the United States to European countries. He died in 1905 in Minneapolis, Minn.

Cross, Michael Hurley, musician, composer,

was born April 13, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was organist of St. Patrick's in 1848; at the cathedral for eighteen years; and for seventeen years at Holy Trinity episcopal church. For thirty years his name was connected with musical progress in Philadelphia. He died Sept. 26, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pa. Cross,

Osbom,

soldier,

was bom

in

New

Hampshire. In 1861 he was lieutenant-colonel in the sixty-seventh regiment New