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graduated at Williams college in 1836: studied at Princeton theological seminary, 1836-37, and was tutor at Williams, 1837-38. He was graduated at the Union theological seminary, New York city, in 1840 and was ordained to the Congrega- tional miHistry, August 20. He was pastor at North Adams, Mass., 1840-55; at Crookville, Pa., 1855-58, and at Deerfield, Mass., 1858-82. He retired from active work in 1882 and was made pastor emeritus. He served in the state senate in 1863, and was one of the incorporators of the Pocumtuck valley memorial association. He was married, Sept. 30, 1840. to Ellen M., daugh- ter of the Rev. Dr. Edward Dorr Griffin, presi- dent of Williams college, 1821-36. He was survived by two sons : the Rev. Lyndon Smith Crawford, Williams, 1876, a missionary to Tur- key; and James Douglas Crawford, Williams, 1870, professor of history and ancient languages, and librarian at the University of Illinois. Dr. Crawford died at Deerfield, Mass., Oct. 28, 1896.

CRAWFORD, Samuel J., governor of Kansas, was born in Lawrence count}', Ind., April 15, 1835. He studied law in Bedford, Ind., was ad- mitted to the bar in 1856, was graduated from the Cincinnati law school in 1858, and removed to Garnett City, Kan., in 1859. He was elected to the Kansas legislature in 1861 ; was captain of the 2d Kansas cavalry in the civil war from May, 1861, to Nov. 1, 1863, when he became colonel of the 83d U.S. colored troops; resigned from the service Nov. 7, 1864, and was brevetted brigadier- general of A'olunteers, March 13, 1865. He was governor of Kansas, 1865-69. He died in Colo- rado, Jan. 29, 1891.

CRAWFORD, Samuel Wylie, soldier, was born in Franklin county. Pa.. Nov. 8, 1827; son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Wylie and Jane (Agnew) Crawford. He u-as graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and from the medical department in 1850. He entered the, U.S. army as assistant surgeon, serving in Texas and Mex- ico, 1851-57, and Kansas, 1857-60. In 1860 he was stationed in Charleston harbor and made one of the brave garrison that defended Fort Sumter, being in command of a battery during the bom- bardment. He was transferred to Fort Colum- bus, New York harbor, on reaching that city in April, 1861. In August, 1861, he was commis- sioned major, 13th U.S. infantry, and in 1862 was made brigadier-general in the volunteer army. He was conspicuous at Winchester, and at Cedar Mountain he lost one half of his brigade. At Antietam he succeeded to the command of General Mansfield's division and was severely wounded in the action of that day. He com- manded the 3d division of the 5th army corps, made up of the Pennsylvania reserves, at Wash- ington, D.C., early in 1863, and led them in the

battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. He was with the army of the Potomac in all the opera- tions under General Grant till the surrender, and won promotions at the Wilderness, Spottsyl- vania, Petersburg and Five Forks for conspicuous bravery, his brevets reaching that of major-gen- eral, U.S. volunteers, and brigadier-general in the regular army in 1865. He was mustered out of the volunteer army in 1866 and served with his regiment. He was promoted colonel of the 16th L".S. infantry in February, 1869, and was afterward transferred to the 2d infantry. In February, 1873, he was retired with the rank of brigadier-general, by reason of disability conse- quent to his wounds. He was made a member of the Geographical society of Mexico in 1858; a fellow of the Royal geographical society of Great Britain in 1879.; a member of the Historical socie- ties of Pennsylvania and New York, and a mem- ber of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He received from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania the degree of LL.D. in 1867. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 3, 1892. CRAWFORD, Thomas, sculptor, was born in New York city, March 22, 1813; son of Aaron and Mary (Gibson) Craw- ford. His parents were natives of Ireland and in moderate circum stances. The boy early developed artistic talent. He took up the chisel and mallet in the studios of Frazer and Launitz in New York in 1833, and in 1834 went to Rome where he became a pupil of Bertel Thorwaldsen. '• < "'''

His " Orpheus and Cerberus," executed in 1839, was purchased by the Boston Athenaeum, as were his " Adam and Eve," and bust of Josiah Quincy. His " Hebe and Ganymede," in the Museum of fine arts, Boston, was secured for that institution through the munilicence of Mr. C. C. Perkins, who afterward presented Craw- ford's bronze statue of Bee- thoven to Boston music hall. His " Babes in the Wood " is in the Lenox library. New York, while his statue of James Otis beautifies the chapel at Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass. His group of celebrated Virginians, surrounding an eques- trian statue of Washington, adorns the capitol grounds in Richmond, Va., the figures having