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accompanied Bishop Loras to America in 1838, where he labored for twelve years in the diocese of Dubuque. During this period he was made vicar-general of the diocese and was for some time pastor of the cathedral church of St. Raphael. In 1843 he was appointed by the U.S.

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government as missionary to the Winnebagoes, and was located at Pi-airie du Chien, where he built a church and would have established a school, but for the interference of the Indian agent. In 1848 he was dismissed by the govern- ment and returned to Dubuque, the Winnebagoes having been sent to Long Prairie. He resumed his former duties at Dubuque until 1850 when he was appointed bishop of the new diocese of St. Paul, Minn. He visited France, where he was consecrated at Bellay, Jan. 26, 1851, by Mgr. Devie, and with a number of priests returned to St. Paul. He restored religious privileges to the Winnebagoes by sending Father (Je Vivaldi as missionary to Long Prairie; established missions for the Ojibways at Crow Wing, Mill Lake, Sandy Lake, Sacra Rapids and Fond-du-Lac; in- troduced the Brothers of the Holy Family into his diocese to take charge of the schools for boys, and founded a novitiate. He stationed Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Paul, and Sisters of the Prop- agation of the Faith at Pembina. He founded a convent of St. Benedict at St. Cloud with Father Wittman as prior, and a convent of Benedictine nuns. Select and free schools were established over the diocese ; churches wei*e built, charitable and devotional societies organized and immigra- tion to the territory stimulated under the epis- copacy of Bishop Cretin. He built the Cathedral of St. Paul at a cost of §70,000, and the one log church and three priests of 1850 grew into a Catholic population of over 50,000 before his death. He died at St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 22, 1857. CRISFIELD, John Woodland, representa- tive, was born in Kent county, Md., Nov. 6, 1808. He attended Washington college, Chester-

town, Md., and was admitted to the bar in 1830^ practising in Somerset county. He was in the Maryland legislature in 1836; represented his district as a Whig in the 30th congress, 1847-49 ; was a delegate to the state constitutional con- vention in 1850 ; to the peace congress in 1861 ;. was a Union representative in the 37th congress, 1861-63 ; was defeated in 1862 as the Democratic candidate for representative in the 38th congress ; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia union convention in 1866. He died in Princess Anne, Md., Jan. 12, 1897.

CRISP, Charles Frederick, representativer was born in Sheffield, England, Jan. 29. 1845; son of William H. and Eliza Crisp. His parents were both actors. His father, a naturalized American citizen, settled in Nashville, Tenn., in 1846 and in 1857 removed to Georgia. The son attended the public schools of Macon and Savan- nah, Ga., entered Jackson college, Lexington, in 1860. and in May, 1861, although only sixteen years old, he joined the Confed- erate army and be- came a lieutenant in a Virginia regiment. In 1864 he was-taken prisoner and at the close of the war was released, returning to the home of his par- ents at Ellaville, Ga., where he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1866. He was mar- ried to Clara, daugh- ter of Robert and Martha Burton of Geor- gia. In 1872 he was appointed solicitor-general of the southwestern judicial circuit of Georgia. In 1873 he located permanently in Americus, Ga., and in 1877 became judge of the supreme court. In 1882 he resigned from the bench to accept the Democratic nomination for representa- tive in congress and was elected. He represented his district in the 48th congress and was regu- larly returned by his constituents during his life- time, serving 1883-96. He was speaker of the house in the 52d and 53d congresses. In the 54th congress he led the minority opposition, and his encounters with Speaker Reed are historic. He was an advocate of bimetallism and in the spring of 1886, when speaker ivo tempore, he left the chair to advocate the imlimited coinage of gold and silver. In his speech he declared him- self in favor of a complete restoration of silver to the place it had occupied before 1873. He was the candidate of the Democratic party of Georgia for U.S senator in 1896 but died a week before the

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