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election. His son. Cliarles R. Crisp, was elected on Dec. 16, INilG, to till tlie vacancy caused by his deatli, receiving all the votes cast at the special election. He was sworn in by unanimous consent before the returns from the election pre- cincts were tiled and was escorted to the seat formerly t>ccupied by his father. Ex-Si)eaker Crisp died at Atlanta, (ra., Oct. 2:?, 189G.

CRISP, Charles Robert, representative, was lH)rii in EUaviile. Cra.. (Vt. !!•, 1S70; son of Cliarles F. and Clara (Burton) Crisp; and grand- son of William H. and Eliza Crisp, and of Robert and Martha Burton. Ho was educated at the pul)lic .sciiools of Americus, Ga. ; was clerk in the land office, interior department, Washington, D.C., 1888-91; and clerk at the speaker's table, U.S. house of representatives, 1891-95. He was admitted to the bar in 1895; and was a repre- sentative in the 54th congress, 1890-97, to fill the vacancy caused bj' the death of his father, former speaker of the liouse.

CRISPELL, Cornelius Eltinge, clergyman, was born in Marbletoun, N.Y., March 14, 1820; son of Dr. Peter and Catherine (Eltinge) Cris- pell: grandson of John and Jane (Hasbrouck) Crispell. and of Cornelius and Blandina (Elraen- dorf) Eltinge. and a descendant of Antoine Cris- pell. a French Huguenot, who, arrived in New Amsterdam in the ship Gilded Otter and settled at Esopus-on-the-Hudson. He was prepared for college at Kingston academy, 1833-36, and was graduated from Rutgers in 1839, rnd from the Theological seminary of the Reformed church. New Brun.swick, N. J., in 1842. He was ordained to the ministry in 1842 ; was pastor at Piermont, N.Y., 1842-47; of the Linlithgow church at Liv- ingston, N.Y., 1847-57; and at Schoharie, N.Y., 1857-63. In 1863 he became rector of the gram- mar school of Rutgers college, and served three years, holding the chair of history in the college in 1865 and 1866. In 1866 he accepted the chair of mathematics, natural philosophy and astron- omy in Hope college, Mich., in which he served until 1878. He was profe.ssor of didactic and polemic theology of the Reformed church of America at the .same institution, 1867-78. Dur- ing the greater part of this time he also gave in.struction in pastoral theology. In June, 1879, he resigned his chair to accept the pastorate of the Reformed church of Spring Valley, N. Y. He was married in 1842 to Sarah, daughter of Dr. Frederick Richmond of New Brunswick, N.J. She died in 1848 and in 1850 he was married to Anna Bausman, daughter of Dr. John fJabriel Gebhard of Claverack, N.Y., and granddaughter of the Rev. John Gabriel Gebliard, for fifty years pastor of the Reformed church of Claverack. Rutgers college conferred ui>on him the degree ofD.D. in 1807.

CRITTENDEN, George Bibb, soldier, was born in Russellville. Ky.. March 20. 1812: son of the Hon. Jolin Jordan and SaUie O. (Lee) Crit- tenden. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1832, and resigned his commission, April 30, 1833. He became one of the Texas revolutionists in 1835 and with his com[)any was captured on the Rio Grande and carried to the City of Mexico, where as a prisoner of war he was released through the intervention of John Forsj'th, secretary of state. He served through the Mexican war as captain of mounted rifles and for gallantry at Contreras and Cherubusco was promoted major and was in the van of the American army as it entered the City of Mexico. After the close of the war he was made major of mounted rifles, being promoted lieutenant-colo- nel in 1856. He resigned from the army of the United States in 1861 and joined that of the Confederacy, receiving the commission of briga- dier-general and shortly afterward that of major- general. In November, 1861, he commanded southeast Kentucky and a part of east Tennessee. At Mill Spring, on Jan. 19, 1862, he was defeated by General Thomas and lost his artillery, escaping across the Cumberland with a remnant of his army. He was severely censured for the action and was kept under arrest until November, 1862, when he resigned his commission but continued to serve the Confederacy as a volunteer. He was state librarian at Frankfort, Ky., 1867-71. He died in Danville, Ky., Nov. 27, 1880.

CRITTENDEN, John Jordan, statesman, was born near Versailles, AVoodford county, Ky., Sept. 10, 1787; son of Maj. John Crittenden, and a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson. His father, an officer in the Continental army, removed from Vir- ginia to Kentucky about 1784, became a successful planter and died in 1809. The son was grad- uated at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va., in 1806, studied law under the Hon,

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was licensed to practise. He was attorney-general of

served in the war

of 1812-13. He was married in 1811 to Sallie O., daughter of Maj. John Lee of Woodford county, Ky. He located at Russellville, Ky., where he practised law and represented Logan county in