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 ISO CROCKER. CRONIN. In 1S80 he was elected a member of the state Senate, re-elected in 1881, '82 and '83, and while in that body served as chairman of the committee on railroads, of the judici- ary committee, and of the committee on rules and orders. He was also a member of the committee on taxation, on the State-house, on bills in the third reading, and of the joint special committee on the revision of the statutes. He prepared the rules which the latter committee adopted to govern its sessions. He also prepared a " Digest of the Rulings of the Presiding Officers of the Senate and House," covering a period of fifty years, which digest has since formed a part of the annual "Manual for the General Court." In 1883, his fourth year of service in the Senate, he was elected its president. The session of the Legislature for that year was rendered famous by the Tewks- bury and other extended investigations, and was the longest session on record, lasting two hundred and six days. He declined to be a candidate for re-election. On the death of Hon. Thomas Russell, chairman of the Massachusetts board of railroad commissioners, in February, 1887, he was appointed by the governor, Oliver Ames, as a member of that board, and by its members was chosen its chairman. He still holds that position, having been re- appointed in July, 1888, for a term of three years. In May of the present year, he was elected a director of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, but de- clined to serve, on the ground that the holding of that position would be incon- sistent with the most efficient performance of his duties as railroad commissioner. In June of the current year, Mayor Hart, of the city of Boston, appointed Mr. Crocker as one of three commissioners to examine into the operation of the existing system of taxation, and to report a more equitable system, if any could be devised. Early in the present year, 1889, G. P. Put- nam's Sons, New York and London, pub- lished a parliamentary manual, entitled " Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies," by George G. Crocker. He has been and is an officer of various business corporations. He is also treas- urer of the Massachusetts Charitable Society, a trustee of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, and of the Massachusetts Char- itable Fire Society, a life member of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, a member of the Boston Civil Service Re- form Association, of the Citizens' Associa- tion of Boston, of the Society for Politi- cal Education, the Young Men's Benevolent Society, the Bar Association of the city of Boston, the Harvard Law School Associa- tion, the Boston Athletic Association, the Beacon Society, the Papyrus, Union, St. Botolph, Algonquin, Country and Union Boat clubs, and resides in the city of Boston. On the 19th of June, 1875, he was mar- ried by Rev. Phillips Brooks, at Emmanuel Church, in Boston, to Annie Bliss, daughter of Nathan Cooley Keep, M. D., of Boston, and Susan Prentiss (Haskell) Keep, and has five children : George Glover, Jr., born April 16, 1877 ; Margaret, born April 9, 1878 ; Courtenay, born February 4, 1881 ; Muriel, born March 30, 1885; and Lyneham, born February 18, 1889. CRONIN, Cornelius F., son of John and Margaret (McCarthy) Cronin, was born in Cork, Ireland, July 25, 1851. Shortly after his birth his parents came to Boston, where he received his early edu- CORNELIUS F. CRONIN. cation at the public schools, winning the Franklin medal on his graduation from the Dwight school. He studied afterward in the Boston evening Latin school, and entered the Boston University law school, where, after a course of three years. In- received in 187S the degree of LL. B.