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 CROSS

CROSWELL

El FiuTtf in isiio. riH)Ji tlie advent of the civil war he resigned his conimis:ion. returneil to his native state, and orgjinizeil and was made colonel of the rith New IIanii>sliire volunteers, whidi under his leadership made itself famous as the "Fighting Fifth." He was in conunand of the 1st brigade. 1st division. Od army corps, at Gettysburg, and was fatally wounded while lead- ing his brigade. lie wrote numerous ]i«ems and prose sketches under the pen name " Richartl Everett." His brother Nelson (lx)rn in Lancas- ter. N.H., in ISiO. died in Dorche.ster, Ma.ss., March 13. 1S97) was a lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio, later removing to New York city where he was a muni(-ijml ju<lge from IS.VJ for many years, and during the civil war won distinction as colonel of a New York regiment. Edward E. Cross died on the battle liel.l of (Jettysburg, Pa.. July 2, 1863.

CROSS, Joseph, clergyman, was born in Somersetshire. England, July 4, 1813. He was brought to the United States in 1825 and in 1829 became a boy preacher in the Methodist church at Genesee, N.Y. He removed to Lexington, Ky., in 1848, where he was married to Jane Tandy Chinn, widow of James P. Hardin, a law- 3'er of Harrodsburg, Ky., and he made a tour of Europe with his wife, who ^TOte letters to the Christian Adrocate and to the Charleston and Nashville jiapers. She also aidfed him in conduct- ing the female seminary at Spartanburg, S.C., 1848-60, and for her loyalty to the south during the civil war, was with her daughters tried by a military tribunal and imprisoned. She published her experiences in " Duncan Adair " and "'Azili" (1868). She died in Elizabethtown, Ky., in October, 1870. Her hvisband was pro- fessor of English literature in Transylvania uni- versity and was identified with the southern branch of the M.E. church. He was official re- porter of the Nashville general conference of lH.-,6. He accepted the faith of the P.E. churcli in 1866 and took lioly orders, serving as rector, among other places at Houston, Tex., Buffalo, N.Y., and St. Louis, Mo. In 188") he became rector of St. Paul's, Los Vegas, N.M. He pub- lished over a score of popular religious books, lK.>>-8.'), and compiled a Church Header for Lent (1885).

CROSS, Judson Newell, soldier, was born at Philadflphia. Jcfrer.son county, N.Y., Jan. 16. 183!^, .s<jn of the Rev. Gorham and Sophia (Mur- <]ock) Cros-s, and great-grandson of three Revo- lutionary .soldiers. He entered Oberlin college in 1855. and .studied and taught until April 20, 1861, when he enlisted with the one hundred Oberlin students who formed Company C, Ttli Ohio Infantrj*. He was elected l.st lieutenant, and served through the western Virginia cam paign of 1861 under Generals McClellan, Ro.se-

crans, and Cox. While serving in this capacity he was editor of The Ohio Serenth, the first Union I)aper published by Union soldiers, with a pre.ss captured from the enemy. He was severely wounded and was captured at the battle of Cross Lanes, but was recaptured at the battle of Carni- fex Ferry, by ]\Iajor Rutherford B. Hayes. He was promoted to a captaincy in Novem- ber, 1861, but on ac- count of his wound was chiefly on spe- cial duty until the end of the war. He was subsequently commandant of the post at Madison, Ind. ; was adjutant- general of the mili- tary district of Indi- ana; assistant pro- vost-marshal, and on the staff of the military governor of the department at

Washington, D.C. His last service was by appointment of Secretary Stanton to muster the 18,000 returned Anderson ville prisoners at Annapolis, Md., in 1864—65. He was graduated at the Albany law school in 1866, and prac- tised law at Lyons, Iowa, where in 1871 he was elected mayor. He removed to -Minneapolis, Minn., in 1875, where he was city attorney, 1883- 87, and while holding the office, instituted many important reforms, reducing the nvmiber and territory of saloons, and compelling the railroads to abolish grade crossings. In 1883 he was a member of the Minneapolis board of park com- missioners, and in 1891 a member of the board of immigration commissioners sent to Europe by the U.S. government.

CROSWELL, Charles Miller, governor of Michigan, was born in Newlnirg, N.Y'., Oct. 31, 1825; son of John and Sallie (Hicks) Croswell. He removed to Adrian, Mich., in 1837 and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1845 he began the study of law and was appointed deputy county clerk. He was city registiar, 1850-54, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1855 and practised in part- nership with Thomas Mclntire Cooley. He was mayor of Adrian in 1862 and was state senator in 1863, 1864, 1865 and 1867, and president pro tem- pore at each session. He was a delegate from Lenawee county to the state constitutional con- vention of 1867 and president of the convention. He was elected in l!S6s member at large of the Michigan house of re|)resentatives, and was its sjjfaker. 1873-74. He was governor of the state for two terms, 1877-81. He also served