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dice compelled them to leave this school and they were received at the Oaeida (N.Y.) insti- tute, and remained there, 1836-39. Crummell was refused admission to the General theological seminary, New York city, in 1839, but pursued his theological studies under Dr. A. H. Vinton of Providence, R.I., and was ordained by Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1848 he went to England where he preached and studied. He was gradu- ated at Queen's college, Cambridge, in 1853 ; was principal of Alexandria high school, and professor in Liberia college, Africa, 1853-73 ; founder of St. Luke's church, Washington, D.C., 1873, and its rector and rector emeritus, 1873-95. In 1897 he organized in New York city the America Negro academy, an organization of authors, artists and scholars, and was its first president. He was also president of the Colored ministers' union and a commissioner for church work among the colored i:)eople. He published : A Future of Africa ; The Greatness of Christ, and Africa and America. He died at Point Pleasant, N.J., Sept. 9, 1898.

CRUMP, Rousseau Owen, representative, was born in Pittsford, N.Y., May 30, 1843; son of Samuel and Sarah (Cutting) Crump. He at- tended the public schools of Pittsford and Roch- ester, N.Y., and in 1869 removed to Plainwell, Mich., where he was engaged in the lumber and planing-mill business imtil 1873, when he re- turned to Pittsford, N.Y. In 1881 he again re- moved his home and business to West Bay City, Mich., where in 1884 he organized the Crump's manufacturing company, and engaged in the lumber manufacturing business. He was alder- man of West Bay City for four years, its mayor, 1892-95, and a Republican representative from Michigan in the oltli. 55th and 56tli congresses, 1895-1901. He died in Bay City, Mich., May 1, 1901. CRUNDEN, Frederick Morgan, librariaft, was born at Gravesend, England, Sept. 1, 184?; son of Benjamin R. and Mary (Morgan) Crunden. He was brought to the United States in his infancy and was placed in the public schools of St. Louis, Mo. He was grad- uated froin the high school in 1861 with the scholarship of Washington univer- sity, St. Louis, given to the first in the /r\ ' ' v ' 'J^ " ' graduating class, and ^}uOl WJPLpuL, 'n 1868 was graduated '^^^^^^ ' ^^-^ from that institution,

receiving his A.M. degree in 1871. He taught in the university academy, 1868-69; was prin- cipal of the Jefferson school, 1869-70, and of

the Benton school, 1870-71. He was professor of elocution at Washington university, 1872-76. After a winter in Colorado he was installed Jan. 17, 1877, as librarian of tlie public school library at St. Louis, Mo. Under his adminis- tration the library was made free, the name changed to Public library and many other radical reforms instituted. In 1889 he was elected president of the American library asso- ciation, and he later declined the librarianship of the Newberry library at Chicago, 111. He was married in June, 1889, to Kate, daughter of Edmund J. Edmondson.

CULBERSON, David B., representative, was born in Troup county, Ga., Sept. 29, 1830. He was educated at Brownwood university. La Grange, Ga., and studied law under Chief Justice Chilton of Alabama. In 1856 he removed to Texas where he was admitted to the bar. He was elected a representative in the Texas legis- lature in 1859. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 18th Texas infan- try and was promoted to the rank of colonel. He was assigned to duty as adjutant-general of the state of Texas in 1864 and the same year was again elected to the legislature. He was a repre- sentative from the 4th district in the 44th-54th congresses, 1875-95. He served as chairman of the judiciary committee in the 52d congress and subsequently as a member of that committee. He declined a seat on the Interstate commerce commission in 1891. His son, Charles A., was governor of Texas, 1897-98, and was elected U.S. senator. Jan. 24, 1899, as succe.ssor to Roger Q. Mills. David B. Culberson died in Jefferson, Texas, May 7. 1900.

CULBERTSON, William Constantine, repre- sentative, was born in Edinboro, Pa., Nov. 27, 1825; son of Andrew Columbus and Margaret (Alexander) Culbertson; grandson of William and Margaret Culbertson, and a descendant in the fifth generation from John Culbertson, who came from Ireland to America and settled in Pennsylvania in 1712. The family came origi- nally from Kelso, Scotland, removing to Ireland in 1665. William acquired a common school edu- cation and engaged in lumbering and farming in different sections west and south and at his home in Girard, Pa. He was a Republican represen- tative in the 51st congress, 1889-91, and after- ward carried on his various business enterprises in banking, railroading and lumbering from his home at Girard.

CULBRETH, Thomas, representative, was born in Kent county, Del., in 1786. He removed to Carohne county, Md., and was in the lower branch of the state legislature. 1813. He was a Democratic representative in the 15th and 16th congresses, 1817-21, and served as clerk of the