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lieutenant. He served through the West Virginia campaign under 

 McClellan and other commanders, and at the battle of Cross Lanes, 

 Aug. 26, 1 861, he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. Later 

 he was recaptured and sent home for surgical treatment. 



He was made captain of Co. K in November, rejoining his old 

 regiment early in 1863, but on account of his wound was obliged soon 

 to resign. He then began the study of law at Albany, where he re- 

 mained until June of that year, when he was commissioned first lieu- 

 tenant in the Fifth Volunteer Relief Corps, promoted to be captain in 

 October, and in April, 1864, was made adjutant general of the mili- 

 tary district of Indiana. In July he was ordered to Washington and 

 was made assistant provost marshal. He was occupied along this 

 line until the close of the war, when he resumed his law studies at 

 Columbia law school. He graduated from the Albany law school in 

 1866 and located at Lyons, Iowa, where he practiced law for nearly 

 ten years. 



He came to Minneapolis in 1875 and formed a law partnership 

 with Judge Henry G. Hicks, to which firm Frank H. Carleton was 

 afterwards admitted and still later his son, Norton M. Cross. 



Captain Cross was elected city attorney in 1884 and served three 

 years. He framed the patrol limit ordinance during his term of 

 office and defended the same before the supreme court. He also in- 

 augurated the litigation which resulted in the lowering of the rail- 

 road tracks on Fourth avenue N. He was a member of the first 

 park commissioners of Minneapolis and in 1891 was appointed 

 United States immigration commissioner to Europe. 



During recent years he has been prominently identified with the 

 forestry movement in Minnesota and is among the most prominent 

 of those laboring for the preservation of forests in the United States. 

 He was president of the Minnesota Forestry Association, 1899-1900. 



He was the author and principal champion of the Forest Re- 

 serve Law passed by the State Legislature a few years since and at 

 the time of his death was president of the Minnesota board organ- 

 ized under this law. Considerable land had already been acquired 

 for forestry purposes by the board and its practical value in the 

 advancement of the forestry movement demonstrated. 



Captain Cross was a member of the John A. Rawlins post, G. 

 A. R., of the Loyal Legion, Commercial Club and of Plymouth Con- 

 gregational church. At Oberlin, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1862, he married 

 Clara Steele Norton, of Pontiac, Mich. He is survived by his wife 

 and four children, Kate Bird, wife of United States Engineer 

 Francis C. Shennehon ; Norton Murdock, Nellie Malura, wife of 

 Theodore M. Knappen, and Clara Amelia. 



