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=Cranch, William.= _Ms._, 1769-1855. Son of R. Cranch, _supra_. A noted jurist who was chief justice of the District of Columbia, 1805-55. Reports of Cases in the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, 1801-41; Supreme Court Reports, 1800-1815.

=Crandall, Charles Henry.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of Springdale, Connecticut. Wayside Music, a book of verse. _Put._

=Crane, Cephas Bennett.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Boston. The Spiritual Court of the Christian Church.

=Crane, Jonathan Townley.= _N. J._, 1819-1880. A Methodist clergyman of New Jersey. Methodism and its Methods; The Right Way; Essay on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; Holiness the Birthright of all God’s Children.

=Crane, Oliver.= _N. J._, 1822-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman who lived in Boston during his latest years. Minto and Other Poems; Virgil’s Aeneid translated literally into English dactylic hexameter.

=Crane, Stephen.= _N. J._, 1870-1900. A popular novelist of New York City. George’s Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines, a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, a striking historical romance of the Civil War in America; Maggie, a story of slum life. _Ap. Cop._

=Crane, Thomas Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A professor of Romance languages at Cornell University. Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française; La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; Chansons Populaires de la France.

=Crane, William Carey.= _Va._, 1816-1885. A Baptist clergyman of Texas, president of Baylor University, 1863-1885, which was renamed Crane College in his honour, 1885. Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston, and lesser works.

=Crawford, Mrs. Alice [Arnold].= _Wis._, 1850-1874. A Milwaukee writer who published A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends, a collection of verse.

=Crawford, Francis Marion.= _Iy._, 1854- ----. A son of the noted sculptor, Crawford. His life has been mainly spent in Italy, where he has devoted himself to novel-writing with great perseverance. His novels are of varying degrees of excellence and always entertaining, but none of them reach the high-water mark of enduring excellence. Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone’s Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio’s Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant’ Ilario; A Cigarette-maker’s Romance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; Taquisara. _See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Mac. Mer. Scr._

=Crawford, Nathaniel Morton.= _Ga._, 1811-1871. A Baptist minister of Kentucky, president of Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1865-71, and the author of Christian Paradoxes.

=Crayon, Porte.= _See Strother._

=Creswell, Mrs. Julia [Pleasants].= _Al._, 1827-1886. A Southern writer who published Aphelia and Other Poems by Two Cousins; Callamura, an allegorical novel.

=Crocker, George Glover.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies.

=Crocker, Mrs. Hannah [Mather].= _Ms._, 1765-1847. A granddaughter of Cotton Mather, _infra_. Letters on Free Masonry; The School of Reform; Observations on the Rights of Woman.

=Crocker, Uriel Haskell.= _Ms._, 1832-1902. Brother of G. G. Crocker, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston. The Cause of Hard Times; Notes on Common Forms; Book of Massachusetts Law; Excessive Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress; Notes on General Statutes of Massachusetts (with G. G. Crocker). _Lit._

=Crockett, David.= _Tn._, 1786-1836. A noted hunter and pioneer who enlisted in the Texan army in the revolt against Mexico, and was slain in the massacre at the Alamo, in San Antonio. Tour to the North and Down East; Life of David Crockett, by Himself (1834); Colonel Crockett’s Exploits in Texas; Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir Apparent; Leisure Hour Musings in Rhyme. _See Life by E. S. Ellis; Bibliography of Texas._

=Croffut, William Augustus.= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A well-known journalist attached to many journals, East and West, and connected with the United States Geological Survey since 1888. The War History of Connecticut; A Helping Hand; Bourbon Ballads; Deseret, an Opera; A Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of travels; The Vanderbilts; The Folks Next Door; The Prophecy, and Other Poems.

=Croly, David Goodman.= _N. Y._, 1829-1889. A journalist of New York City. Life of Horatio Seymour; History of Reconstruction; The Positivist Primer; Glimpses of the Future.

=Croly, Mrs. Jane Cunningham.= “Jennie June.” _E._, 1829-1901. Wife of D. G. Croly, _supra_. The founder of Sorosis, and editor of Demorest’s Magazine, 1860-87. The originator of duplicate correspondence. Talks on Women’s Topics; For Better or Worse; Knitters and Crochet; Letters and Monograms; Cookery Book for Young Beginners; Thrown upon her Own Resources. _Cr._

=Crooks, George Richard.= _Pa._, 1822-1897. A Methodist clergyman and religious journalist. Life of John McClintock, _infra_; Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books in Latin and Greek (with J. McClintock); Latin-English Lexicon (with A. J. Schem). _Fu. Har._

=Crosby, Alpheus.= _N. H._, 1810-1874. An educator of Massachusetts who published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; Greek Tables; First Lessons in Geometry; an edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis.

=Crosby, Howard.= _N. Y._, 1826-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman long prominent in New York City who was chancellor of the University of New York city, 1870-81. The Christian Preacher; Notes on the New Testament; Life of Jesus; Christ and Science; At the Lord’s Table; Sermons; Lands of the Moslem; Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Notes; Bible Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View of the Jewish Church; The Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the Church; Thoughts on the Pentateuch; Commentary on the New Testament, include his principal works. _Fu. Ran._

=Crosby, Nathan.= _N. H._, 1798-1885. Brother of A. Crosby, _supra_. A prominent lawyer of Lowell, who published First Half Century of Dartmouth College.

=Crosby, William Otis.= _O._, 1850- ----. A professor of geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published Common Minerals and Rocks; Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts.

=Cross, Charles Robert.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Course in Elementary Physics; Lecture Notes on Mechanics and Optics.

=Cross, David Wallace.= _N. Y._, 1814-1891. A Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a sportsman. Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun.

=Cross, Joseph.= _E._, 1813-1893. An Episcopal clergyman who from 1829-1856 was a prominent Methodist divine. The more important of his writings include Headlands of Faith; Pisgah Views of the Promised Inheritance; A Year in Europe; Coals from the Altar; Pauline Charity; Prelections on Charity; Old Wine and New.

=Cross, Mrs. Jane Tandy [Chinn] [Harding].= _Ky._, 1817-1870. Wife of J. Cross, _supra_. Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for my Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a translation from the Spanish; Duncan Adair, a novel.

=Croswell, Andrew.= 1709-1785. A Boston clergyman, very active as a controversialist. The Apostle’s Advice to the Jailor Improved; Heaven shut against Arminians and Antinomians.

=Croswell, Harry.= _Ct._, 1778-1858. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Trinity Church, New Haven, 1816-58, but in earlier life was a political journalist noted for his scathing editorials. Young Churchman’s Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy Sacrament.

=Croswell, William.= _Ms._, 1804-1851. Son of H. Croswell, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, the first rector of the Church of the Advent. Some of his hymns appear in various religious anthologies and hymnals. Poems Sacred and Secular.

=Crowe, Winfield Scott.= _Ind._, 1850- ----. A Universalist clergyman, of Newark, New Jersey, editor of the Universalist Monthly. The Man of Evolution; The God of Evolution; The Lordship of Jesus.

=Crowell, Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1817-1894. A writer of San Francisco, and later of New York city, who was a zealous defender of Spiritualism. The Identity of Primitive Christianity with Modern Spiritualism; The Spirit World; The Philosophy of Death; Spiritualism and Insanity; The Religion of Spiritualism.

=Crowell, William.= _Ms._, 1806-1871. A Baptist clergyman who published The Church Member’s Manual of Ecclesiastical Principles; Church Member’s Handbook; History of Baptist Literature for Fifty Years.

=Cruger, Mrs. Julia Grinnell [Storrow].= “Julien Gordon.” _F._, 18-- - ----. A popular novelist of New York city. A Diplomat’s Diary; Poppaea; A Successful Man; A Wedding and Other Stories; Mademoiselle Réséda; A Puritan Pagan. _Lip._

=Cruger, Mary.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A writer of Montrose, New York. Hyperæsthesia; A Den of Thieves, or the Lay Reader of St. Mark’s; The Vanderheyde Manor House; How She Did It; Brotherhood. _Fo. Lo._

=Crummell, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1819-1898. A coloured Episcopal clergyman of Washington. The Future of Africa; Greatness of Christ, and Other Sermons; Africa and America.

=Cruse, Christian Frederick.= _Pa._, 1794-1864. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city whose translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius is a standard English version.

=Cruse, Mary Anne.= _Al._, 18-- - ----. A writer and educator of Huntsville, Alabama. Besides a novel of the Civil War, Cameron Hall, she has written several popular Sunday-school books, such as The Little Episcopalian; Bessie Melville.

=Cruttenden, Daniel Henry.= _N. Y._, 1816-1874. An educator of New York city, among whose text-books are Systematic Arithmetic Series; The Philosophy of Language; Rhetorical Grammar.

=Crynkle, Nym.= _See Wheeler, A. C._

=Culbertson, Matthew Simpson.= _Pa._, 1818-1862. A Presbyterian missionary to China. Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions in North China.

=Cullum, George Washington.= _N. Y._, 1809-1892. A brevet major-general in the United States army. Military Bridges with India-Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, 1802-90; System of Military Bridges. _Hou._

=Cumming, Kate.= _Al._, _c._ 1835- ----. A resident of Mobile, prominent during the Civil War as an organizer of field hospitals in the Confederate army. Hospital Life in Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War.

=Cummings, Amos Jay.= _N. Y._, 1842-1902. A journalist of New York city. Horace Greeley Campaign Songster; Sayings of Uncle Rufus; Ziska Letters.

=Cummings, Jeremiah W.= _D. C._, 1823-1866. A once popular Roman Catholic clergyman of New York city. Italian Legends; Songs for Catholic Schools; Spiritual Progress; The Silver Stole.

=Cummings, Thomas Seir.= _E._, 1804-1894. A New York artist who was author of the Historic Annals of the National Academy from its Foundation to 1865.

=Cummins, Ebenezer Harlow.= _N. C._, 1790-1835. A clergyman and magistrate of Baltimore. Geography of Alabama; History of the Late War (1820).

=Cummins, Maria Susanna.= _Ms._, 1827-1866. A once famous novelist of Massachusetts, whose first book, The Lamplighter, enjoyed for a time a phenomenal popularity. Her subsequent stories include El Fureidîs, a tale of Palestine; Haunted Hearts; Mabel Vaughan. _Cr. Hou._

=Curry, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1809-1887. A Methodist divine of note. New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark, _supra_; Fragments, Religious and Theological; Platform Papers.

=Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe.= _Ga._, 1825-1903. A Baptist clergyman who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, achieved prominence as an educator, and was United States Minister to Spain in 1885. Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a Study; Southern States of the American Union.

=Curry, Otway.= _O._, 1804-1855. An Ohio journalist who published Love of the Past, a poem.

=Curry, Samuel Silas.= _Tn._, 1847- ----. An educator of Boston whose specialty is the culture of expression. The Province of Expression; Lessons in Vocal Expression; Imagination and Dramatic Instinct.

=Curtin, Jeremiah.= _Wis._, 1838- ----. Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland; Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World, collected from Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. His translations include Tales of Three Centuries, from the Russian of Zagoskin; The Romances of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish. _Lit._

=Curtis, Alva.= _N. H._, 1797-1881. An Ohio physician and medical writer. Medical Discussions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory and Practice of Medicine; Medical Criticisms.

=Curtis, Benjamin Robbins.= _Ms._, 1809-1874. A noted jurist of Boston. Reports of Cases in the Circuit Courts of the United States; United States Supreme Court Decisions; Digest and Decisions of United States Supreme Court. _See Memoir by G. T. Curtis._ _Lit._

=Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, Jr.= _Ms._, 1855-1891. Son of B. R. Curtis, _supra_. A municipal court judge of Boston. Dottings Round the Circle, a volume of travels.

=Curtis, Mrs. Caroline Gardiner [Cary].= “Carroll Winchester.” N. Y., 1827- ----. A novelist of Boston. From Madge to Margaret; The Love of a Lifetime.

=Curtis, Edward.= _R. I._, 1838- ----. Brother of G. W. Curtis, _infra_. A physician of New York who has published Manual of General Medical Technology.

=Curtis, George Ticknor.= _Ms._, 1812-1894. Brother of B. R. Curtis, _supra_. An eminent lawyer of New York city, well known as a legal writer and biographer. Digest of English and American Admiralty Decisions; Digest of Decisions of Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the United States; American Conveyancer; Law of Patents; Equity Precedents; Inventor’s Manual; Law of Copyright; Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen; Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisdiction of United States Courts; A History of the Constitution of the United States; Life of James Buchanan; Life of Daniel Webster; Creation or Evolution; Last Years of Daniel Webster; John Charaxes, a novel. _Har. Lit._

=Curtis, George William.= _R. I._, 1824-1892. One of the foremost of American essayists, and a writer whose influence was as helpful as it was widespread. In boyhood he was one of the members of the famous Brook Farm Association at West Roxbury. To Putnam’s Monthly he contributed The Potiphar Papers, a spirited satire upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel, Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of Harper’s Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of Harper’s Weekly. He was zealous in the cause of civil service reform, and by his efforts as writer and lecturer accomplished very much in that direction. Beside the volumes already named, his writings include Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James Russell Lowell, an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy Chair; Speeches, Addresses, &c., edited by C. E. Norton, _infra_; Literary and Social Essays. _See Life by E. Cary, 1895; Address by J. W. Chadwick, supra; Century Magazine, February, 1883; Smalley’s Studies of Men._

=Curtis, Moses Ashley.= _Ms._, 1808-1872. A botanist and Episcopal clergyman of North Carolina. Edible Fungi of North Carolina; Contributions to Mycology of North America; Catalogue of the Plants of North Carolina; Esculent Fungi; Indigenous and Native Plants of North Carolina.

=Curtis, Samuel Ives.= _Ct._, 1844- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary of Chicago. The Name Maccabee; The Levitical Priests; Ingersoll and Moses; The Date of our Gospels. _Rev._

=Curtis, Thomas F.= _E._, 1815-1872. A Baptist divine who was for some years president of Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania. Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years (1857); The Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures, a work which occupies the Colenso position on the subject and is in places more advanced.

=Curtis, William Eleroy.= _O._, 1850- ----. A prominent Washington journalist. The United States and Foreign Powers; Life of Zachariah Chandler; The Capitals of Spanish America; The Land of the Nihilist; Venezuela; The Yankees of the East: Japan Sketches; The True Thomas Jefferson. _Har. St._

=Curtiss, Mrs. Abby [Allin].= _Ct._, 1820- ----. A verse-writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Home Ballads (1850).

=Curwen, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1715-1802. A loyalist who lived in England during the American Revolution, but returned after its close to his native town of Salem. While an exile he kept a journal which contains much valuable information concerning loyalist exiles. It was first published in 1842, with the title Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, an American Refugee in England, 1775-1884.

=Cushing, Caleb.= _Ms._, 1800-1879. A Massachusetts statesman and diplomatist, who was attorney-general of the United States, 1853-57. Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution in France, 1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life of William Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States, 1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport; The Treaty of Washington. _See Appleton’s American Biography._ _Har._

=Cushing, Luther Stearns.= _Ms._, 1803-1856. A well-known authority on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer on Roman Law in Harvard University, 1848-56. Massachusetts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts; Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex Parliamentaria Americana; Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the Deliberative Assemblies. _Lit._

=Cushing, William.= _Ms._, 1811-1895. Brother of L. S. Cushing, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself to literary research, and published Anonyms; Initials and Pseudonyms, useful guide-books of literary information. _Cr._

=Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bacon].= _Mch._, 184- - ----. Wife of G. A. Custer, _infra_. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer; Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas; Following the Guidon; The Boy General. _Har. Scr._

=Custer, George Armstrong.= _O._, 1839-1876. A famous general in the Federal army during the Civil War, who afterwards became noted in campaigns against the Indians, and was killed with his entire command in a battle with the Sioux in the Black Hills. My Life on the Plains was his only publication.

=Custis, George Washington Parke.= _Va._, 1781-1857. An adopted son of General Washington. He published Recollections of Washington.

=Cuthbert, James Hazard.= _S. C._, 1822- ----. A Baptist divine of Washington. Our Mission as Baptists; Life of Richard Fuller, _infra_.

=Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson.= _Ms._, 1831-1870. A professor of modern languages at Harvard University, 1865-1870. War Poems; Stella. _See Memoir by A. P. Peabody, infra, 1872._

=Cutler, Mrs. Hannah Maria [Tracy] [Conant].= _Ms._, 1815-1896. A prominent woman-suffragist who became a physician in 1879, and practiced in Cobden, Illinois. Woman as She Was, Is, and Should Be; Phillipia, or A Woman’s Question; The Fortunes of Michael Doyle, or Home Rule for Ireland.

=Cutler, Jervis.= _Ms._, 1768-1844. A Western pioneer who published Topographical Description of the Western Country (1812). _See Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler._

=Cutler, Mrs. Lizzie [Petit].= _Va._, 1836- ----. A novelist of New York City. Light and Darkness; Household Mysteries, a romance of Southern life; The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.

=Cutter, George Washington.= _Ms._, 1801-1865. A verse-writer of Washington. Buena Vista, and Other Poems; Song of Steam; Poems National and Patriotic.

=Cutting, Hiram Adolphus.= _Vt._, 1832-1892. A State geologist of Vermont. Mining in Vermont; Climatology of Vermont; Microscopic Revelations; Farm Pests; Notes on Building Stones; Lectures on Plants, Fertilization, etc.; Lectures on Milk, etc.; Farm Lectures; Vermont Agricultural Reports.

=Cutting, Sewall Sylvester.= _Vt._, 1813-1882. A Baptist clergyman and religious journalist. Historical Vindications; Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty; Ancient Baptistries.

=Cuyler= [ky´ler], =Theodore Ledyard.= _N. Y._, 1822- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, formerly pastor of Lafayette Avenue Church of Brooklyn. Stray Arrows; Cedar Christian; The Empty Crib; Wayside Springs; Right to the Point; Thought Hives; God’s Light on Dark Clouds; Pointed Papers; Heart Life; From the Nile to Norway; Newly Enlisted, or Talks to Young Converts; The Young Preacher; Stirring the Eagle’s Nest; How To Be a Pastor; Christianity in the Home, comprise the greater number of his works. _Rev._