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five 3'ears. He was presiding elder of the Puebla district and president of the Theological seminary of the Methodist Episcopal church, Puebla, Mexico, 1889-95, and in the latter year was appointed presiding elder of the Paraguay district of the Methodist Episcopal church, Par- aguay, S. A., having full charge of all the work in that country. He was married Sept. 22, 1875, to Laura, daughter of the Rev. Joseph and Harriet (Honsel) Gassner, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He receiAed the degree of D.D. from the Iowa Weslevan university in 188T.

CRAWFORD, Francis Marion, author, was born at Lucca, Italy, Aug. 2, 1854; son of Thomas Crawford, sculptor, and Louisa (Ward) Craw- ford, and a nephew of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. He was sent to the United States in 1856 and lived with some relatives on a farm at Borden- town, N.J., until the death of his father in 1857, when he was taken back to Italy. In 1862 his mother was mar- ried to Mr. L. Terry of Hartford, Conn. She died at Rome, Italy, Sept. 21, 1897. At the age of twelve he was sent back to America and placed in St. Paul's school at Concord, N.H. Later he studied at Trinity college,

Cambridge, Eng- land; was at Karls- ruhe and Heidel- berg, 1874-76, and at the University of Rome, 1876-78, "where he studied the Oriental languages. His family then met with financial reverses, and thrown upon his own resources he went to In- dia where he obtained the editorship of the Alla- habad Indian Herald. In 1880 he returned to Italy and in 1881 took passage for America, where he entered Harvard as a special student, taking Professor Lanman's course in Sanskrit, He sup- ported himself by writing magazine articles, book reviews and essays. In May, 1882, at the sug- gestion of his uncle, Samuel Ward of New York, he began to write down some of his experiences in India, and completed "Mr. Isaacs" in June at the home of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In May, 1883, he returned to Italy, and in 1884 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. Hiram Berdan, of the U.S. sharpshooters. He rebviilt a villa, which he had bought at Sorrento, Italy, where he made his home, visiting America yearly from 1892. His published books include: Mr. Isaacs (1882); Dr. Claudius (1883); To Leeward

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(1883) ; A Eoman Singer (1884) ; An American Pol' itician (1884) ; Zoroaster (1885) ; .4 Tale of a Lonely Parish (1886); Saracinesca (1887); Paul Pntoff (1887); Marzio's Crucifix (1887, new ed., 1894); With the Immortals (1888) ; Greifenstein (1889) ; Sant' nario (1889) ; Khaled (1891) ; The Witch of Prague (1891) ; The Three Fates (1892) ; Don Orsino (1892) ; The Children of the King (1893) ; Pietro Ghisleri (1893); 3Iarion Darche (1893); Katherine Lauderdale (1894) ; Love in Idleness (1894) ; The Upper Birth (1894); The Ralstons (1895); Casa Braccio (1895) ; Constantinople (1895) ; Adain John- stone's Son (1896) ; Taquisara (1896) ; .4 Pose of Yesterday (1897) ; Corleone (1897) ; Ave Roma Im- mortalis (1898); Via Crucis (1898). In 1897 he dramatized Doctor Claridius.

CRAWFORD, George Addison, pioneer, was born in Pine Creek, Lycoming (now Clinton) county. Pa., July 27, 1827; son of George and Elizabeth (Weitzel) Crawford. He was gradu- ated at Jefferson college in 1847, taught school in Kentucky and Mississippi, 1847-48, and studied law in Lock Haven, Pa., 1848-51. He was editor of the Clinton Democrat, 1851-52; was a clerk in the post-office department at Washington, D.C., 1853-56, and practised law in Kansas from 1857. He was the founder "of the town of Fort Scott; editor of the Kansas Farmer; a civil engineer; a commissioner to the centennial exhibition of 187G ; president of the Kansas historical society, and a regent of the Kansas agricultural college. In 1861 he was elected governor of Kansas but the election was found to be illegal. He estab- lished the Daily 3Ionitor, the first newspaper published in Fort Scott. In May, 1876, he re- moved to Colorado, and founded the town of Grand Junction in Mesa county. He died' in Grand Junction, Col., Jan. 26, 1891.

CRAWFORD, George Washington, governor of Georgia, was born in Columbia county, Ga., Dec. 22, 1798; son of Peter Crawford, who came from Virginia to Edgefield county, S.C, in 1779 and settled in Columbia county, Ga., in 1783. He was graduated from the College of New Jer- sey in 1820, studied law in the office of Richard Henry Wilde in Augusta, Ga., and in 1822 was admitted to the Richmond county bar. He was attorney-general of Georgia, 1827-31, and a rep- resentative in the state legislature from Rich- mond county, 1837-42, with the exception of an interim of one year. He was a representative from Georgia in the 27th congress, filling a va- cancy caused by the death of Richard W. Haber- sham and serving from Feb. 7 to March 4, 1843. He was governor of Georgia, 1843-46, and by pledging his personal credit restored financial credit to the state and placed it on a sound basis. On the accession of Zachary Taylor to the presi- dency in 1849, he was given the portfolio of war