CUISI'
CinTTEXDEN
election. His son. Cliarles R. Crisp, was elected
on Dec. 16, INilG, to till tlie vacancy caused by
his deatli, receiving all the votes cast at the
special election. He was sworn in by unanimous
consent before the returns from the election pre-
cincts were tiled and was escorted to the seat
formerly t>ccupied by his father. Ex-Si)eaker
Crisp died at Atlanta, (ra., Oct. 2:?, 189G.
CRISP, Charles Robert, representative, was lH)rii in EUaviile. Cra.. (Vt. !!•, 1S70; son of Cliarles F. and Clara (Burton) Crisp; and grand- son of William H. and Eliza Crisp, and of Robert and Martha Burton. Ho was educated at the pul)lic .sciiools of Americus, Ga. ; was clerk in the land office, interior department, Washington, D.C., 1888-91; and clerk at the speaker's table, U.S. house of representatives, 1891-95. He was admitted to the bar in 1895; and was a repre- sentative in the 54th congress, 1890-97, to fill the vacancy caused bj' the death of his father, former speaker of the liouse.
CRISPELL, Cornelius Eltinge, clergyman, was born in Marbletoun, N.Y., March 14, 1820; son of Dr. Peter and Catherine (Eltinge) Cris- pell: grandson of John and Jane (Hasbrouck) Crispell. and of Cornelius and Blandina (Elraen- dorf) Eltinge. and a descendant of Antoine Cris- pell. a French Huguenot, who, arrived in New Amsterdam in the ship Gilded Otter and settled at Esopus-on-the-Hudson. He was prepared for college at Kingston academy, 1833-36, and was graduated from Rutgers in 1839, rnd from the Theological seminary of the Reformed church. New Brun.swick, N. J., in 1842. He was ordained to the ministry in 1842 ; was pastor at Piermont, N.Y., 1842-47; of the Linlithgow church at Liv- ingston, N.Y., 1847-57; and at Schoharie, N.Y., 1857-63. In 1863 he became rector of the gram- mar school of Rutgers college, and served three years, holding the chair of history in the college in 1865 and 1866. In 1866 he accepted the chair of mathematics, natural philosophy and astron- omy in Hope college, Mich., in which he served until 1878. He was profe.ssor of didactic and polemic theology of the Reformed church of America at the .same institution, 1867-78. Dur- ing the greater part of this time he also gave in.struction in pastoral theology. In June, 1879, he resigned his chair to accept the pastorate of the Reformed church of Spring Valley, N. Y. He was married in 1842 to Sarah, daughter of Dr. Frederick Richmond of New Brunswick, N.J. She died in 1848 and in 1850 he was married to Anna Bausman, daughter of Dr. John fJabriel Gebhard of Claverack, N.Y., and granddaughter of the Rev. John Gabriel Gebliard, for fifty years pastor of the Reformed church of Claverack. Rutgers college conferred ui>on him the degree ofD.D. in 1807.
CRITTENDEN, George Bibb, soldier, was
born in Russellville. Ky.. March 20. 1812: son of
the Hon. Jolin Jordan and SaUie O. (Lee) Crit-
tenden. He was graduated at the U.S. military
academy in 1832, and resigned his commission,
April 30, 1833. He became one of the Texas
revolutionists in 1835 and with his com[)any was
captured on the Rio Grande and carried to the
City of Mexico, where as a prisoner of war he
was released through the intervention of John
Forsj'th, secretary of state. He served through
the Mexican war as captain of mounted rifles
and for gallantry at Contreras and Cherubusco
was promoted major and was in the van of the
American army as it entered the City of Mexico.
After the close of the war he was made major of
mounted rifles, being promoted lieutenant-colo-
nel in 1856. He resigned from the army of the
United States in 1861 and joined that of the
Confederacy, receiving the commission of briga-
dier-general and shortly afterward that of major-
general. In November, 1861, he commanded
southeast Kentucky and a part of east Tennessee.
At Mill Spring, on Jan. 19, 1862, he was defeated
by General Thomas and lost his artillery, escaping
across the Cumberland with a remnant of his
army. He was severely censured for the action
and was kept under arrest until November, 1862,
when he resigned his commission but continued
to serve the Confederacy as a volunteer. He
was state librarian at Frankfort, Ky., 1867-71.
He died in Danville, Ky., Nov. 27, 1880.
CRITTENDEN, John Jordan, statesman, was born near Versailles, AVoodford county, Ky., Sept. 10, 1787; son of Maj. John Crittenden, and a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson. His father, an officer in the Continental army, removed from Vir- ginia to Kentucky about 1784, became a successful planter and died in 1809. The son was grad- uated at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va., in 1806, studied law under the Hon,
George M. Bibb and / ">/
was licensed to
practise. He was
attorney-general of
served in the war
of 1812-13. He was married in 1811 to Sallie O., daughter of Maj. John Lee of Woodford county, Ky. He located at Russellville, Ky., where he practised law and represented Logan county in
