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in 1865 was brevettel brigadier-general of volunteers. Cross, Osborne, soldier, was bora in 1803 in Maryland. He was made deputy quartermaster-general in 1863; in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army; and was promoted to colonel in 1866. He died July 15, 1876, in New York City. Cross, Richard James, banker, author, was born Nov. 3, 1845, in Liverpool, Englajid. In 1875-99 he was a member of the banking firm of Morton, Bliss and company of New York City; and has now retired from active business. He is the author of Selections

From Dante. Cross, Roselle Theodore, educator, clergy-

man, author, was born on Aug. 21, 1844, in Eichville, N.Y. He was principal of the academic department of Oberlin college in 1869-73;

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pastorates in several fills a pastorate in York, Neb. He is the author of Home Duties; Clear as Crystal; and History of Colorado Congregationalism. Cross, Truman, soldier, author, was born in Maryland. He was chief of the quartermaster's department of the army of occupation from 1845 until his death, which he met at the hands of Mexican banditti. He was the author of Military Laws of the United States. He died April 21, 1846. Cross, Whitman, geologist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1854, in Amherst, Mass. Since 1880 he has been geologist in the United States geological survey at Washington, D.C. He is the author of Quantitative Classification of Ingenious Rock. Cross, Wilbur Lucius, educator, author, was born April 10, 1862, in Mansfield, Conn. Since 1902 he has been professor of English in Yale university. He is the author of Development of the English Novel. Crossland, Edward, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 30, 1827, in Hickman county, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky state legislature in 1857; and was judge of the court of common pleas in the first district in 1867-71. In 1871-75 he was a representative from Kentucky to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a democrat. Crpsswell, Andrew, clergyman, author, was bom in 1709 in Charlestown, Mass. He was the author of The Apostle's Advice to the Jailor Improved; and Heaven shut against Arminians and Antinomians. He died April 12, 1785, in Boston, Mass. Crosswell, Charles M., lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 1825, in large cities;

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died Dec. 13, 1886, in Adrian,

Mich. Croswell, Edwin, journalist, author, was May 29, 1797, in Catskill, N.Y. For thirty years he was a well-known journalist of Albany, N.Y.; and changed the Albany Argus to a daily journal. For many years he was state printer of New York. He died June 13, 1871, in Princeton, N.J. Croswell, Harry, journalist, clergyman, author, was born June 16, 1778, in West Hartford, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman and rector of Trinity church of New Haven in 1816-58. He was the author of Young Churchman's Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy Sacrament. He died March 13, 1858, in New Haven, Conn. Croswell, Henry, clergyman, founder, author, was born Jan. 16, 1778, in Hartford, Conn. In 1809 he founded a federalist newspaper in Hudson, N.Y. In 1814 he was ordained in the protestant episcopal church; and filled the pastorate in Trinity church of New Haven for more than forty years. He was the author of Young Churchman's Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; and Guide to the Holy Sacrament. He died March 13, 1855, in New Haven, Conn. Croswell, William, clergyman, author, poet, was born Nov. 7, 1804, in Hudson, N.Y. He was an episcopal clergyman of Boston, the first rector of the Church of the Advent. Some of his hymns appear in various religious anthologies and hymnals. He is the author of Poems Sacred and Secular. He died Nov. 9, 1851, in Boston, Mass. Crothers, George Edward, lawyer, financier, was born May 27, 1870, in Wapello, Iowa. He was educated at the San Jose high school; and received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from Leland Stanford university. He has been president of the Monterey county

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is a noted lawyer; and secretary and assistant treasurer of the board of trustees of the Leland Stanford university of California. Jointly with his brother he wrote and caused to be passed by the legislature an amendment to the state constitu-' tlon enabling the correction and defects In the organization and grants of Stanford university, and the perfection of its title. Crothers, Rachel, playwright, author, was born in Bloomington, 111. In 1892 she graduated from the Illinois state normal school. She is a writer of plays; and a member of the society of dramatic authors. She is the author of The Three of Us, produced in the Madison street theater of New York City; The Coming of Mrs. Patrick; and several

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secretary of the state convention at Jackson, Mich., from which sprung the republican party. In 1862 he was appointed city attorney; and the same year was elected mayor of Adrian. He was a state senator in 1863-69;' and was speaker of the state house of' representatives in 1873. He was the sixteenth governor of Michigan in

Crotiiers, Samuel, clergyman, was born Oct. 22, 1783, near Chambersburg, Pa. He was a concise and vigorous writer and an eloquent preacher. Life and Writings of Samuel Crothers was published in 1857. He died July 20, 1856, in Oswego, 111.

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Samuel McChord, clergyman, auwas born June 7, 1857, in Oswego, HI.

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