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of Abigail Adams, wife of Jolin Adams, ami liis fatlier came to ^la.ssa'^'uisetts from Devoiisliire. England, and was a judge of the eourt of common pleas and author of " Views of the Prophecies concerning Anti-Christ." The son was graduated at Harvard in 1787 and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1790. He practised for a time in Braintree and Haverhill, Mass., and re- moved to Washington, D.C, in 1704, where he was commissioner of public buildings in 1800. In 1801 President Adams appointed him to the bencli of the circuit court of the Di.strict of Co- lumbia. He was reporter of decisions of the su- preme court, 1801-15. He was apjxjinted chief justice of the circuit court of the District of Columbia by President Jefferson. Feb. 24, 1806, and continued at the head of the court till 1855. It is recorded that out of all his decisions only two were overruled by the U.S. supreme court. He was married to Anna, daughter of the Hon. William Greenleaf, sheriff of Suffolk county, Mass., 1775-80. He was a member of the Ameri- can academy of arts and sciences and of the American antiquarian society. Harvard gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1829. He published in six voliuiies the reports of the circuit court of the di.strict, 1801-41, and also nine volumes of the reports of the U.S. supreme coyrt. He prepared a code of laws for the District of Columbia and jiublished a memoir of John Adams in 1827. He died in Washington. D.C, Sept. 1, 18.')5.

CRANDALL, Charles Henry, autlior, was born in Greenwich, N.Y., June 19, 1858; son of Henry Sargent and Mary C. (Mills) Crandall; grandson of Eber and Prudence (Newberry) Crandall, and of Stephen and Sarah C. (Car- michael) Mills; and a descendant of the Rev. John Crandall, who came to America in 1685, a follower of Roger Williams, went to Rhode Island and founded the town of Westerly. He removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1875, was for five years engaged in commercial work and then became connected with the New York Trihune. In 1886 ill health compelled him to resign his position and he removed to Springdale, Conn. He pub- lished licpreseiitative Sonnets by American })oets, with an exhaustive essay on the sonnet (1890). He also collected his own poems and published them in 1893 under the title Wayside Music, and a second volume in 1898, entitled The ChonU of Life. He is the author of numerous stories and es.says on social topics and countr\- life.

CRANDALL, Charles Lee, engineer, was born at Bridgewater, Oneida county, N.Y., July 20, 1850; son of I'eter P. and Eunice C. (Priest) Crandall; and grandson of Peter Crandall. He lived on a farm with his parents, receivings a district school education and about two years' instruction at an academy. His family removed

to Itliaca, N.Y., in 18fis, where lie entered Cor- nell university, and was graduated C.E. in 1872. He served in an arciiitecfs office and as assistant engineer on the New York, Boston and Montreal railroad until January-, 1874, when he again entered Cornell university as a graduate student. He was appointed instructor in civil engineering in the university in April, 1874; assistant pro- fessor of civil engineering in Jul}-, 1875; associate professor in June, 1891, and professor of railway engineering in June, 1895. He acted as aid to the United States coast survey in the summer of 1878 and was city engineer of Ithaca, N.Y., 1879- 91. He is the author of Tables for the Computation nfBaihray and Other Earthioork (1886); Notes on De- scriptive Geometry (1888); Notes on Shades, Shadows and Perspective (1889); The Transition Curve (1893); and of contributions to Van Nostrand's Engineer- ing Magazine, and the Transactions oi the Ameri- can society of civil engineers, of which society he was elected a junior member in 1876, and full member in 1893.

CRANDALL, Prudence, see Philleo, Prudence Crandall.

CRANE, Charles Henry, army surgeon, was born in Newport, R.I., July 19, 1825; son of Col. Ichabod B. Crane, U.S.A. He was graduated at Yale in 1844 and from the Harvard medical school in 1847. He entered the U.S. army as act- ing assistant surgeon, and was ordered to Mexico, serving during the continuation of the war and receiving promotion to the rank of assistant surgeon. He was stationed at various posts throughout the United States and took part in expeditions again.st the Indians, his most promi- nent .service being in 1856 against the Rogue River tribe. He was promoted surgeon May 21, 1861; and in February, 1862, was made medical di- rector of the department of Key West, and on June 30, medical director of the department of the South. In September, 1863, lie was assigned to duty in the surgeon-generars office in Wash- ington and was promoted assistant surgeon -gen- eral with the rank of colonel, July 26, 1806. He succeeded Surgeon-CJeneral Barnes as surgeon- general of the U.S. army, July 3, 1882. His brevets included the rank of brigadier-general in the regular army at the close of the civil war. He died at Washington, D.C, Oct. 10, 1883.

CRANE, Edward Payson, educator, was born in Jefferson, N.Y., March 0, 1832; son of Daniel and Elsie Ann (Demarest) Crane; grand.son of Daniel Crane and of Henry Oothant Demare-st; and a descendant of Maj.-Cen. Humphrey Ather- ton of the colonial army; Capt. Lemuel Ilotch- kiss; the Rev. Richard Mather; of the Van Oothants, Dutch patroons. large Landed proprie- tors on the Hudson; and of the Demarests, of Puritan and Huguenot origin. He was grad-