tolerable, and the first assembly was dismissed. The second (1810) was similar in composition, and was also dismissed. During the following election Sir James H. Craig, or his council, suppressed "Le Canadien," newspaper, and arrested six prominent members of the late assembly. Garneau, the French Canadian historian, though not regarding Sir James with special favor, exonerates him from any great culpability in the matter, placing the blame upon Chief-Justice Sewell, who was at the head of the council. In 1811 Sir James retired from the gov- ernment, and on 19 June returned to England.
CRAIG, John, philanthropist, b. in Goffstown,
N. H., in 1797; d. in Rochester, N. Y., 19 July,
1872. He was educated in his native town and be-
came a successful business man, amassing a large
fortune by his habits of industry and integrity.
Besides giving liberally during his lifetime, he be-
-queathed sums amounting to $105,000 to various
Universalist educational institutions.
CRAIG, Lewis, clergyman, b. in Orange county,
Va., in 1737; d. in Kentucky in 1828. As there
was no ordained minister at hand to baptize him,
he began preaching before his baptism, and was in-
dicted " for preaching the gospel contrary to the
law." His conduct during the trial so impressed
one of the jurors, John Waller, that it was the oc-
casion of Waller's conversion. On 4 June, 1768,
while engaged in public worship, he was seized by
the sheriff, and was required by the court to give
security not to preach in the county within twelve
months. Refusing to do this, he was committed to
the Fredericksburg jail. After a month's confine-
ment, during which he preached through the prison-
bars to large crowds, he was released. Soon after-
ward he was ordained, and became pastor of a Bap-
tist church. In 1771 he was again imprisoned for
three months in Caroline county. In 1781 he re-
moved to Kentucky, where he continued his min-
isterial labors with great zeal and success. — His
brother, Elijah, clergyman, b. in Orange county,
Va., in 1743; d. in Kentucky in 1800. Some time
after his ordination he was imprisoned for a
month lor preaching the gospel. In Culpepper
jail he lived on rye-bread and water and preached to
the people through the prison-bars. After this he
was " honored with a term in Orange jail." He was
several times sent as a delegate from the Baptist
general association to urge the Virginia legislature
to grant entire religious liberty. In 1786 he re-
moved to Kentucky, where he amassed a fortune.
CRAIG, Lewis S., soldier, b. in Virginia; d.
near New River, Cal., 6 June, 1852. He entered
the army as second lieutenant of the 2d dragoons,
14 Oct., 1837, was transferred to the 3d infantry in
August, 1838, and in March, 1840, made assistant
commissary of subsistence. He was promoted to
first lieutenant in June, 1840, to captain in Juno,
1846, and served with distinction in the Mexican
war, winning the brevet of major for gallant con-
duct at Monterey, and that of lieutenant-colonel at
Contreras and Churubusco, where he was wounded.
He met his death at the hands of deserters while
in the performance of his dutv.
CRAIG, Robert H., actor, b. in New York
city, 24 March, 1842 ; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 8 Dec,
1872. He made his first appearance at Barnum's
old museum. New York, on 10 Sept., 1860, and
subsequently, when connected with the Arch street
theatre, Philadelphia, began to rise in public favor
as a comedian. He made a success at the Boston
museum in 1870 as a burlesque actor, with clever
imitations of noted players. He had talent as a
painter, and was the author of burlesques on " Don
Juan," " Faust," " Hamlet," and " Camille."
CRAIG, William, artist, b. in Dublin, Ireland,
in 1829 ; drowned in Lake George, N. Y., in 1875.
He painted in water-colors, and exhibited for the
first time at the Royal academy in Dublin in 1846,
His pictures became popular in Ireland, and in
1863 he settled in this country, becoming one of
the original members of the American society of
water-color painters. Toward the end of his life
he jjainted rapidly, and so his later works were
not equal to those produced early in life, which
have been pronounced "admirable specimens of
the art, tender yet brilliant in tone, and possessed of
that peculiar transparency of coloring which is so
noticeable in the works of the English school."
Among his paintings are " Mount Washington "
(1867); "Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga" (1868);
"Valley of the Rocks, Paterson, N. J." (1869);
"On the Hudson" (1870): "Hudson River near
West Point " (1871) ; " Metzingeis Cascade, near
Fishkill, N. Y." (1872) ; and " Falls on the Boquet
River " and " Kilchum Castle, Scotland " (1875).
CRAIGHILL, William Price, soldier, b. in
Charlestown, Jellerson co., W. Va., 1 July, 1833.
After attending Charlestown academy he entered
the U. S. military academy, where he was grad-
uated in 1853, standing second in a class of fifty-
two, and was assigned to the engineer corps.
He superintended tlie building of Fort Dela-
ware in 1858, was made first lieutenant on 1
July, 1859, and served most of the time till 1864 at
the military academy as instructor, treasurer, and
in command of an engineer detachment there. He
was made captain on 3 March, 1863, was engaged
in constructing defences for Pittsburg when it
was threatened by Morgan and other raiders, and
was chief engineer of the middle department from
April till June, 1864. He was brevetted lieuten-
ant-colonel, 13 March, 1865, for his services in the
defence of Cumberland Gap, and was made major
on 23 Nov., serving on the board for carrying out
in detail the modifications of the New York de-
fences from 20 June till 10 Nov., 1865. From
1865 till 1867 he superintended the defences of
Baltimore harbor. Since then he has been engaged
on a great number of important works, including
the improvement of the Potomac, near Washing-
ton, from 1870 till 1874, that of the Appomattox
river, 1870-'71, and of the Delaware in 1873. He
was sent to examine movable dams and other
works in France and Great Britain in 1877-'8.
In 1881 he was promoted lieut.-colonel, in 1888
full colonel, and in 1895 brig.-general and chief of
the corps of engineers. He was a delegate to the
general convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church in 1880, 1883, and 1886. He has compiled
" Army Officer's Pocket Companion " (New York,
1861); translated Dufour's "Cours de tactiques"-
(1863) ; and, jointly with Capt. Mendell, Gen. Jomi-
ni's " Precis de l'art de la guerre " (1862).
CRAIGIE, William, meteorologist, b. in Belnaboth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 11 March, 1799 ; d. in Hamilton, Canada, in August, 1863. He studied for the medical profession at Mareschal college, Aberdeen, and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin. He came to Canada, and in 1834 settled at Ancaster, Canada West, removing
in 1845 to Hamilton. As a scholar, he had probably no superior in Canada, and held a high position as a scientific authority on meteorology, botany, horticulture, and agriculture. The results of his labors as a meteorologist were chronicled for many months in the columns of the Hamilton " Spectator," and he frequently lent assistance to a scientific journal published in connection with the Smithsonian institution. He was a member
