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mountains.
He
served through the
enlisting as a private in
civil
company
i±,
in
first
first
regiment iowa volunteer cavalry; was promoted through all grades and brevetted brigadier-general. He participated in nearly all of the scouting and battles with the enemy in southwestern Missouri, and in Arkansas and other states; crossed the Ozark mountains; and was mustered out in 1866. He remained one year in Texas, and then returned home to Iowa. He was county auditor for four terms; and has principally been engaged in mercantile business at Albia, la. Craig, Thomas, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1775 he was second lieutenant in the Thompson's Pennsylvania rifle regiment; and in 1783 was brevetted brigadiergeneral. He died Jan. 4, 1832. Craig, Thomas Bigelow, painter, artist, was born Feb. 14, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. His first picture was ejdiibited in the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts in 1869. He is an associate national academician. Craig, William, painter, artist, was bom in 1829 in Dublin, Ireland. He became one of the original members of the American society of water-color painters in New York; among his works are: Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga; On the Hudson; Hudson River near West Point; and Falls on the Boquet River. He died in 1875 in New York City. Craig, William Benjamin, lawyer, states-
man, congressman, was born Nov. in Selma, Ala.
He was educated
2,
in the
Mecklenburg county, N.C. He founded the
war,
1877,
com-
mon
schools; and graduated from the law department of the Cumberland university of Lebanon, Tenn. Since 1898 he has practiced law in Selma, Ala. In 1903-07 he was a member of the Alabama state legislature. He has served in the Alabama national guard.
1907-11 he was a representative from to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. Craig, Willis Green, clergyman, theologian, was born Sept. 27, 1834, in Danville, Ky. In 1862-82 he was pastor of the First presbyterian church at Keokuk, Iowa; and since 1892 has been professor of didactic and polemic theology at the McCormick theolflgical seminary of Chicago, 111. Craige, Burton, soldier, lawyer, congressIn
Alabama
man, was born March 13, 1811, in Rowan county, N.C. He was a member of the North Carolina state legislature in 1832-36. In 1853-61 he was a representative from North Carolina to the thirty-third, thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thiriy-sixth congresses. He died Dee. 30, 1875, in' Concord, N.C. Craighead, Edwin Boone, educator, college president, was born March 3, 1861, in Missouri. For four years he was president of the South Carolina agricultural and mechanical college; and subsequently was president of Central college of Fayette, Mo. Since 1904 he has been president of Tulane university of New Orleans. La. Craighead, Thomas, educator, clergyman, founder, college president, was born In 1750
see.
presbyterian church in middle TennesIn 1785-1809 he was president of David-
son academy and Cumberland college.
He
died in 1825 in Craighead, Tenn. Craighill,
author, was
William Price, civil engineer, bom July 1, 1833, in Charles-
town, Va. He built the defenses of Pittsburg in 1863; was brevetted lieutenant -colonel In 1865 for services at Cumberland Gap; and afterward engaged on defenses of New York and Baltimore. In 1895 he was made brigadier-general and chief of engineers in the
United States army; and was subsequently He is the author of Army Officers' Pocket Companion. Craigie, David Johnston, soldier, was born Dec. 6, 1840, in Scotland. In 1861 he enlisted as first lieutenant in eighth regiment retired.
Iowa volunteer infantry; and became captain in 1864. In 1866 he became second lieutenant in the regular army; and in 1902 attained the rank of colonel. In 1903 he was as brigadier-general of the United States army. Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary. John Oliver Hobbes, author, was born Nov. 3, 1867, in Boston, Mass. She was the wife of Reginald Walpole Cragie. She was the author of Some Emotions and a Moral; The Sinner's Comedy A Study in Temptations A Bundle of Life; Journey's End in Lovers Meeting; The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wickenham; The Herb Moon; and School for Saints. Her plays are The Ambassador; and A Repentance. She died in 1907 in England. Craik, James, physician, was born in 1731 in Ireland, inuring tlie revolutionary war he served in the medical department; and rise to the first rank. After the war he removed to the neighborhood of Mount Vernon at Washington's request; and attended him in his last illness. He died Feb. 6, 1814, in Fairfax county. Va. Craik, Vfilliam, congressman, was bom in Port Tobacco, Md. In 1796-99 he was a representative from Maryland to the fourth and fifth congresses. He died in Maryland. Crain, William H., lawyer, congressman, was bom Nov. 25, 1848, in Galveston, Tex. He settled at Cuero, Tex.; and in 1872 was elected district aftorney; and in 1876 was elected a state senator. In 1885-95 he was a renresentative from Texas to the fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. He died Feb. 10, 1896, in Washington, D.C. retired
Cralle,
Richard K., iournalist, clergyman,
author, was bom in South Carolina. He was for many years an editor and Swedenborgian clergyman in Washington, D.C. He published Works of John C. Calhoun, with a memoir, in six volumes; and several polemical works on new church doctrines. He died June 10, 1864, in Virginia.
Cram, George
F., soldier, publisher,
author, 1842, in Lowell, Mass. In 1862-65 he served as a soldier in the civil
was born May
20,
