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of the university to study law, and he was licensed to practice in Kanawha county, Va., in November, 1828. He practised successfully until he was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Epis- copal church by Bishop Meade, Dec. 4, 1839. He was advanced to the priesthood. May 23, 1841. and was rector at Charlestown, Va., until 1844. In that year he was called to Christ church, Louisville, Ky., and continvied as its rector until his death, when he was succeeded by his young- est son, Charles Ewell Craik, formerly rector of the American Episcopal church in Geneva, Swit- zerland. In 1899 the son was dean of Christ church cathedral, the parish having been under charge of father and son for fifty-five years. Dr. Craik was president of the standing com- mittee and deputy to the diocesan convention of Kentucky, and in 1862 was elected president of the House of clerical and lay deputies of the General convention of the P.E. church, the highest office held by a priest in the American church, to which position he was four times re- elected. During the civil war he was an outspoken Union man and did much toward pre- venting the .secession of Kentucky, and after the war in reuniting the church, north and south. Under his influence the Orphanage of the Good Shepherd and the Church home and infirmary were established. He was married in 1829 to Juliet, daughter of Samuel Shrewsbury of Kan- awha county, Va., and they had eleven children: James, Mary, Nannie, Samuel, Maria, William, Joel, Juliet, Hewitt, Fannie and Charles Ewell. He received the degree of S.T.D. from St. Paul's college, in 1856, and from Hobart in 1857, and that of LL.D. from William and Mary. Several of his writings were adopted as textbooks in church schools. His works include Old and Xeic (1850); Search of Truth (1855); and the Divine Life and Xew Birth (1865; 3d ed.\ 1876); besides nu- merous pamphlets and sermons. He died in Louisville, Ky., June 9, 1882.

CRAIK, William, representative, was born near Port Tobacco, Md., Oct. 31, 1761; son of Dr. James and Mariamne (Ewell) Craik. He was admitted to the bar, and was appointed chief ju.stice of the 5th district of Maryland on Jan. 13, 1793, holding the oflice till his resignation in 1796. He was a representative from Marj-land in the 4th, 5th and 6th congresses, 1796-1801, and was again chief justice of the U.S. district court of the 5th judicial district of Maryland from Oct. 20, 1801, to Jan. 28, 1802. He was married to Ann Fitzhugh, daughter of Gen. W^illiam and Ann (Randolph) Fitzhugh of Ravensworth, Va., and a sister of Mrs. G. W. P. Custis. The date of his death could not be ascertained.

GRAIN, William Henry, representative, was born in Galveston, Texas, Nov. 25, 1848, son of

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William Davis and Emily Matilda (Blake) Grain; grandson of Phebe Grain, a Texas pioneer; and a descendant of Jasper Crayne, one of the founders of New Haven, Conn., 1639, and Newark, N.J., 1666. William was left fatherless when six years old and was thereupon sent to New \ ork city, where he wtis placed in the school of the Chris- tian brothers. AVhen fourteen years oi age he entered the College of St. Francis Xavi«>r and was graduated valedictorian of his class in 1867. He re- turned to Texas, worked two years as a cowboy on a ranch and then taught school at Indianola, studied law in the office of Stockdale & Proctor and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He was mar- ried in July, 1873, to Angelina G., daughter of Capt. I. N. Mitchell of Mitchell's Point, Calhoun county. _ He was district attorney of the 16th judicial district, 1872-76, and state senator from the 28th senatorial district in 1877, when he resigned, having changed his residence to Hallettsville, where he was a law partner of Col, S. C. Patton for four years. He was an elector for the state at large on the Democratic electoral ticket in 1880 and canvassed the state for Hancock and English. In 1881 he removed to Cuero, Dewitt county, which was included in the 7th congressional district, under tlie, api^or- tionment of 1881. Here he became the law part- ner of the Hon. Rudolph Kleberg, and represented the 7th district in the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52d congi-esses. In 1890, by the redistricting of the state, he came -within the 11th district and rep- resented it in the 53d and 54th congresses. He was the first native son of Texas to represent the state in the national congress. In the House he was a ready debater, an eloquent orator, and a careful and painstaking legislator. He died suddenly from pneumonia in Washington, D.C., and was buried at his home in Cuero, Texas. His funeral was attended by the governor, state officials and a large delegation from congi-ess. Bishop Forest officiated at the funeral services, and Father Smith ®f San Antonio in speaking of the dead, designated him the " Catholic Ameri- can." The date of his death is Feb. 10. 1896.

CRAM, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, was born in New Hampshire about 1807. He was gradua- ted at the U.S. military academy in 1826 and was assistant professor of mathematics in the acad-