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ami congress the news of the victory at Bnena Vista. In •1S41> President Taylor ajiiRiinteil liiin U.S. consul to Liverpool ami lie returned from the mission at the close of Fillmore's administra- tion in 1>>.")3. He was opjxjsed to secession and iii 1X(51 entered the Union army, where he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, Oct. 27. 18(>1. For gallantry at Shiloh. where he commande*! a divi.sion, he was promoted major- general of volunteers, July 17, 1862. He was given command of the 2d corps, army of the Ten- nessee, which formed the left wing of Buell's army. He engaged in the hattle of Stone's river, and at Cliickamauga commanded the left wing of Rosecrans's aniiy. He was afterward given command of a division of the 9tli corps, army »>f the Potomac, and operated with that corps during the campaign of 1864. He resigned his commi.s.sion Dec. 13, 1864, and served as a volun- teer aid on the statT of General "Williams until the close of the war. In 1865 he was commis- sioned by President Johnson colonel of the 32d U.S. infantry and in 1869 was transferred to the 17tii infantry. On March 2, 1867, he was brevet- te«l l>rigadier-general for gallantry at Stone's River. He was transferred from the West to New York harbor in 1877 and was retired in May. 1881, by rea.son of his age. , His son, John J. Crittenden, was a cadet at the U.S. military academy, 1873-76, and as lieutenant accompanied General Custer in his expedition against the Sioux Indians. June 25. 1876, sharing the fate of the commander. General Crittenden died at Annandale, Staten Island, N.Y., Oct. 23. 1893.

CRITTENDEN, Thomas Theodore, governor of Miss(iuri, was born in Shelby county, Ky., Jan. 2, I8:i4; .son of Henry and Anna Maria (Allen) Crittenden; and grandson of Maj. John Crittenden; and of Col. John Allen. He was g^a<l uated from Centre college in 1855, studied law in Frankfort, Ky., and practised his profession for a numl^er of years in Lexington, Ky., and in Warren.sburg, Mo. During the civil war he entered the Union army and rose to the rank of lieutenant- colonel in the 7th Mi.s.souri cavalry. He was elected a repre- sentative in the 45tli ^-ni^li^ congress, 1873-75, and in 1881 was elected governor of Mis'iouri by the largest Democratic majority that had ever been cast in that .state. He served in the executive office until 1885 and

was instrumental in tiie pursuit and destruction of the notorious Jesse James gang of outlaws. On April 5, 1893, lie was appointed by President Cleveland consul-general at ^lexico. He was married to Carrie W. Jackson of Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 13, 1856. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Missouri in 1SS4.

CROASDALE, William Thomas, journalist, was born at Newport, Del., Marcli 27, 1844, of Quaker i)arents. His ancestors settled in Penn- sylvania in 1682. He attended the Friends' academy at Wilmington, Del., and remained in that city as a journalist until July, 1863, when he joined the Union army and served until the close of the civil war. He then returned to journal- ism and was later made city editor of the Wil- mington Commercial. He founded the Every Evenincj, which was .subsequently merged in the Commercial, and in 1882 removed to Baltimore, Md., where he started the Day. In 1886 he went to New York city and accepted a position on the staff of the Star, and in January, 1891, after one year's work on that paper he became managing editor of the Standard, established in 1887 by Henry George. He was an unsuccessful candi- date for representative in the 52d congress. He wrote The CoUerjiate Church and Shoemaker's Field (1887); and Sailors' Snnrj Harbor and the IlandaU Farm (1887). He died in Merriewold Park, Sul- livan county, N.Y., Aug. 9, 1891.

CROCKER, Alvah, representative, was born in Leominster, Mass., Oct. 14, 1801. He attended the Groton academy and was first employed iiL a paper mill at Franklin, N.H., in 1820. In 182$ he borrowed the money necessary to establish a paper mill at Fitchburg, Mass., and in 1834 purchased all the land in the Nashua valley and built a wagon road. He was elected to the .state legislature in 1835, where he proposed a railroad to connect northwestern Massachusetts with the seaport at Boston. He was returned to the legislature in 1842 and then secured a charter for the road, completing it in 1845. This he fol- lowed with the Vermont, the Troj' and the Hoo- sac tunnel railroads, urging the Hoosac tunnel project, in a canvass of tiie western towns of Massachusetts, 1847-48. His paper mills became the largest in the United States and he built extensive machine shops and foundries in the neighborhood of his mills. In manufacturing white paper he was the first to use cotton waste and also the first to use palm leaf fibre in wall papers. He represented his district in the state senate, 1862-64, and when Representative Wash- burn was elected governor in 1871 Mr. Crocker succeeded to his seat in the 42d congress, Feb. 14, 1872, and was re-elected to the 43d congress. He died in Fitchburg, Mass., Dec. 26, 1874.