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in the new cabinet. On tlie death of the Presi- dent. July 9, Is.lO, he resigned from the ( ib- inet and his resignation was accepted Aug. 15. 1850. He then made a tour of Europe, spending several years abroad and on his return retired from public life. In 1858 he joine 1. with several oliier former governors of Georgia in a southern commercial convention held at Montgomery, Ala., and in 1861 he presided over the state convention that carried Georgia for secession. He died at his home near Augusta, Ga.. July •:•:. 1S7-2.

CRAWFORD, Joel, representative, was born in Columbia county, (ra., June 15, 1783. He was educated in the school of Dr. David Bush; studied law under Nicholas Ware of Augusta, and at the Litchfield (Conn.) law school; was admitted to the bar in 1808, and practised in Milledgeville, Ga. He was an aid to General Floyd in the Creek war. 1813-U, with the rank of major. He was a representative in the Georgia legislature, 1814-17, and a Democratic represen- tative in the 15th and 16th congresses, 1817-21. He removed in 1828 to Sparta, Hancock county, and served in the state senate three con.secutive years. He was a member of the commission to fix the boundary between Alabama and Georgia in 1826; an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Georgia in 1828 and again in 1831, and a com- missioner to represent the state on the board of directors of the Western and Atlantic railroad, 1837. He was elected a member of the Georgia historical society in 1842. He died in Early county. Ga.. April 5. 185!^.

CRaWFORD, John Sydney, engineer, was born iuEdinljurgli, Scotland. Nov. 19, 1839; son of Stephen Rowan and Jane Tucker (Wilson) Craw- ford. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1861 entered the 17th Penn- sylvania regiment, U.S. volunteers, as a pri- vate and .served throughout the civil war. He was promoted 1st lieutenant and captain in the 114th Pennsylvania regiment, U.S. volunteers, and was connected with General Kearny's di- vision, 3d army corps, Armj-of the Potomac. For seventeen years he pursued his profession as mining engineer in the districts of Lake Superior, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, and in Mexico on surveys between the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California. He was twice married, his first wife being Eleanor Martin, daughter of Jolin Henderson of Philadelphia, Pa., and his .second, Lucia N., daughter of Charles P. Relf, also of Philadelphia. He w;is maile a fel- low of the Geological society, London, ?2ngland. 1889, and was elected vice-president of the Geo- logical society of Grant county. New Mexico, 1892. He published Mininrj as Known to the An- cients (1875) ; Geology of New Mexico (1887) ; Sierra

County Belts (1><88); Prartiral Mining Text Note» (1880).

CRAWFORD, Martin Jenkins, representa- tive, was l),)r.i ia Ja-;p;^r cou.it v. (ra., Mircli 17, 1820. H^ WIS educ.itad at .Mercsr university but was not graJuateJ. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1839, and became a lawyer in Columbus, Ga., but relinciuisheJ his practice on the death of liis fatlier and engaged in planting. He was a member of the state legislature. 1845- 47, a member of the southern convention held in Nashville, Tenn., in 1850, and in 1853 was made juilge of the superior courts of t\\2 Cliatta- hoochee circuit. He resigned his judicial office and represented his district in the 34th, 35th and 36th congresses, withdrawing from congress, Jan. 23, 1831, upon the secession of liis state. He was a delegate to the Confederate provisional congress, 18 51-62, and was one of the three com- missioners sent to Washington to treat for a peace- ful separation of the states. He raised the 3d Georgia c.ivalry and served as its colonel for one year w!i3n he was appointed on the staff of Gen. Howell Cobb. At the close of the war he re- sumed the practice of law. In 1875 he was again appointed judge of the superior courts of the Chattahoociee circuit and in 1877 was reap- pointed for eight years. In 1880 he was elevated to the supreme court of the state as associate justice to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Justice Bleckley, and was appointed his own successor on the expiration of Justice Bleckley's term. He died in C.)lumbus, (Ja.. July 22, 1883.

CRAWFORD, Nathaniel Macon, educator, was born in OgIetlior[)e county, Ga., March 22,

1811; son of the Hon. William Harris and

(Gardine) Crawford. He was graduated at the University of Georgia with highest honors in 1829, and became first a Presbyterian and subse- quently a Baptist minister. In 1836 he was a professor in Oglethorpe college, Ga.. and in 1846 he accepted the cliair of theology in Mercer uni- versity, becoming president of that institution irk 1854 to succeed President Dagg. In 1856 he re- signed that position to accept the chair of meta- ph)'sics and ethics in the University of Mississippi. He was professor of theology in Georgetown col- lege, K}-., 1857-58 and in 1858 returned to Mercer as its president continuing as such until the institution closed in 1865, wlien he accepted the presidency of Georgetown college, Ky., where he served. 1865-71. He received tlie degreeof D. D. from the University of Georgia in 1854. He died in Walker county, Ga., Oct. 22, 1871.

CRAWFORD, Robert, clergyman, was born in I'ai.sley, Scotland, Nov. 24, 1804. He was brougiit to Canada by his father in 1821 and after a few years of frontier life became an operative in a cotton mill at Hoosick Falls. .^.Y. Ue was