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in recruiting the -3(1 regiment^ N.Y. volunteprs, of which hf was commissioned lieutenant-i < lo- nel. He fouglit in the battles of Groveton c'll Bull Run), Cliantillj, South Mountain, and Aniie- tam, was acting inspector-general on the stalF of Gen. John F. Reynolds and his aide in the battle of Fredericksburg. In 1863 he was assist- ant provost-niarshal-general on the staff of Gen- eral Hooker. He commanded the lOTth N.Y. volunteers at Leesburg in June, 1863, and was its colonel in the battle of Gettysburg. He was with Sherman at Chattanooga, in his march to the sea. and at Johnston's surrender, and was mustered out of the service in June, 1865. He was brevetted brigadier-general, March 13, 1865. He resumed liis banking busine.ssat Hornellsville, N.Y., and was instrumental in organizing the soldiers' home in Bath, N.Y., of which he was a trustee and treasurer. He married in 1852 Marie Louise, daughter of Mattliew McDowell of Waj'ne, N.Y. He died in Wayne. N.Y. Sept. 25, 1901.

CRANE, Oliver, clergyman, was born in West Bloomfield. N.J., July 12, 1822; son of Stephen F. and Matilila (Smitli) Crane, and a descendant of Jaspar Crane of Connecticut. His father was a prosperous farmer and his mother was a daugh- ter of Peter Smith, private secretary to General "Washington at Mor- r&town, N.J., dur- ing the winter of 1779-80. The house in which Oliver was born was used by Washington as his headquarters while tliat general was in Cranetown watch- ing from Eagle rock the movements of the British army ami navy about New- York. Oliver en- tered Yale college as a sophomore and was graduated in 1845 with honors. He then studied theology at the Union seminary, N.Y., artd was graduated in 1848. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in April, 1848, became a missionary under the care of the A.B.C.F.M., and was sent to Turkey, where he soon acquired a knowledge of the language. He lalx)red in that empire for nine years and e.stablished schools and churches. Upon his return to America in 1858 he became pastor of the church at Huron, N. Y., and subsequently of one at W^averly, N.Y. In 1864 he was elected professor of Biblical and oriental literature in Rutgers female college, New York city, which position he declined, to

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accept the pastorate of the Carlwndale, Pa. . Pres- byterian churc:i. After 1870 he devoted himself chiefly to literary work. He made his home in Morristown, N.J., in 1870 and was elected a member of several historical and literary socie- ties. By apiwintment of the governor he was for many years a member of the board of exam- iners of the Scientific college of New Jersey. He travelled extensively in America, Europe and the Orient and in 1856 was elected a corporate mem- ber of the American Oriental society. He was married in September, 1891, to Sibylla Bailey, and thereafter resided in Boston. Mass., the home and birthplage of his wife. In 1880 he was chosen secretary of the class of 1845 of Yale col- lege and prepared an exhaustive biographical class record which was the pioneer in this line of pub- lication. He received from Yale the degree of A.M. in 184 3, from the Eclectic medical college of New York city that of M.D. in 1866 in recog- nition of liis successful practice of medicine in the Orient; and from the University of Wooster, Ohio, that of D.D. in 1880. In 1888 he published a hexametrical lineal version of Virgil's '■^l^Ineid ■■ wV.ich won for him the degree of LL.D. from Westminster college, Fulton, Mo. In 1880 he published Mints and other Foems, which included fwn metrical versions of Dies Irce; and in 1865, under the direction of his presbytery, he prepared a manual for the use of the churches within its bounds. He also assisted Gen. H. B. Carrington in the preparation of Battles of the devolution (1876). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 20. 1806.

CRANE, Sibylla Bailey, musician, was born in Boston, Mass., July 30, 1851; daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Bellamy) Bailey. On the maternal side she descended from the Rev. Dr. Joseph Bellamy, and on the paternal side from one of the Mayjioirer Pilgrims. She acquired a thorough educa- tion and cultivated her talents in mu- .sic, the languages and literature, to an unusual degree under the best in- structors in her na- tive city. Her com- positions include music for some of the poems of Bryant, "WTiittier and Longfellow, and were first rendered by their author at functions of a social, educational or charitable