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with entire success as the single propelling power of 

 all the machinery of the exhibit! "ii, was furnished as 

 a voluntary contribution by Mr. Corli-s and as an ex- 

 hibit from' Rhode Island. " The cylinders were forty- 

 t'our inches in diameter, with a ten-toot stroke : the 

 gear-wheel was thirty t'eet in diameter : and the whle 

 engine I to the town 



of Pullman, near Chicago, and now dr: 

 chinery in the Pullman Car- Works. Bartholdi. in his 

 report to the French Government. 'it be- 



vs of art. by tile general 

 . and it- perfect balance to ti:< 

 Mr. Corliss was a member of the > ".ire in 



7 '. and was a Republican presidential elector in 

 lie was appointed Centennial Commissioner 

 Irom Rhode Island in 1872. and was one of the execu- 

 tive committee of seven to whom the responsibility of 

 the preliminarv work was intrusted. At the World's 

 Fair held in Paris in 1867 he received a medal, and 

 at the one held in Vienna in 1873 he received a grand 

 diploma of honor. The Rumford medal of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences was given him in 



he Institute of France gave him the Montyon 

 prize in 1878. its highest honor for mechanical achieve- 

 ment, and in 188') the King of the Belgians made him 

 an officer of the Order of Leopold. 

 Craig, James, lawver, born in Pennsylvania, Mav 7, 



iied in St. Joseph, Mo.. 0." 



his admission to the bar he rcmov. -eph to 



practice. He was a member of the Missouri Legislat- 

 ure in 1846-' 47, was captain of a volunteer company 

 in the Mexican War. was Attorney tor the Twelfth Ju- 

 dicial District of Mi >uri from 1852 till 1>56, was a 

 member of Congress from I) -ill March 3, 



: ;d served on the Committee on Post-Offices and 

 Post-Roads. On March 21. 1862, he was commissioned 

 brigaclier-ireneral of volunteers, and he had command 

 of the Union forces at St. Joseph during the war. He 

 was a friend and admirer of President Lincoln. ~ 

 opposed to him politically. He negotiated the Platt 

 purchase, which comprised all of northwest Missouri, 

 and was the first President of the Hannibal and St. 

 Joseph Railroad, the first line built across th 

 and the first Comptroller of the city of St. Joseph. 

 Crane, Benjamin Franklin, civil engineer, born in Sara- 



N. Y.. in 1817 ; died in New York city, Jan. 16, 

 He removed to New York city in early life, 

 studied civil engineering, and was subsequently con- 

 nected with several noted public works, including 

 the construction of the Croton Aqueduct, the Erie 

 Canal, and the New York Central Railroad. The 

 work of which he was always the most proud, how- 

 ever, was his large share in laying out Central Park, 

 according to the plans of Frederick Law Olmstcd and 

 Culvert Yaux. He was admirably suited for thi- 



Vhen the work was sufficiently advanced to per- 

 mit its dedication to public use, he'was appointed its 

 tirst superintendent, and held the office many years. 

 He retired from the public service in 187 i. 



Crocker, Charles, financier, born in Troy, N. Y., Sept. 

 I''. 1822 : died hi Monterey. Cal., Aug.' 14, 18*8. lie 

 began selling newspapers for a living when twelve 

 Id, removed with the family to northern In - 

 diana in 1836, was turned out-of-doors by his father in 

 1839. became an apprentice in a forge in 1840, discov- 

 ered abed of iron-ore in Marshall County, Ind.. 

 and with the aid of his employer established a forge 

 there soon afterward. In 1850 he crossed the Plains 

 with two brothers ; but, not meeting with the success 

 he had anticipated in placer-mining, he abandoned 

 it nnd opened a store for the sale of mining-supplies. 

 In 1852 he established a similar store in Sacramento, 

 and in two years was considered rich. He was elected 

 a member of the Common Council hi 1855. and of the 

 '. as a Republican. Associated with 

 Letand Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Hunt- 

 ington, he furnished the means for a survey by Theo- 

 dore D. Judah of a railway route across *the Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains, at a time when no bank or capi- 

 talist would risk a dollar on such an apparently chi- 



merical scheme. On the passage of the Union Pacific 



trucked 



the Central Pacific l>ivi-i<>n. un.l ,\- the 



most difficult section. He became perin- 



tendentof the Central Pacific Railroad in l^'i-2. Presi- 

 dent of the Southern Pacific Railroad and 



nt of the Central Pacific Company in 1-7 

 superintended the construction of the Arizon;. 

 Mexieo, and Texas Divisions. In 1884 the two rail- 



p.d some coastwise an<I 



-nip lines were consolidated under the n , 



mentof a single company the Southern Pacifi 



- he was elected second vice-president. He al>o 

 acquired lanre banking and industrial i; 

 to New York city, and 

 with an accident that indirectly caused his death. 



Crosby, George Avery, physician, born in Lowell, 

 1 ; died in Manchester, N. H.. Jan. 

 . He came from a family of eminent physi- 

 and was graduated at Dartmouth in 18" -: 

 in the Medical Department in 1855. In 1857 he went 

 to Peru and practiced there till 1864, when be returned 

 to the United States and settled in Manchester. He 

 married a daughter of Hon. A. J. Bryant, of San 

 Francisco, in 1877. was President of the New Hamp- 

 shire Medical Society in 18S6, speir :i hos- 

 pitals on Deer Island and in New York city, and at 

 the time of his death was a member of the Manchester 

 Board of Health. 



Curtis, Samuel Johnson, philanthropist, born hi Meri- 

 dcn, Conn., Jan. 15. 1814; died there, Jan. 1' 

 He was a director and stockholder in nearly every 

 manufacturing company in Meriden, and was also in- 

 terested to a large extent in the local fire-insurance, 

 street-railroad, and other companies. He accumulated 

 a large fortune, and gave liberally to charitable ob- 

 jects. A few years before his death he founded the 

 Curtis Home 'for Aged and Indigent Women and 

 Destitute Children, erected a building at an expense 

 nd supported it until his death. He made 

 this home the residuary legatee of all his property, 

 which, it is believed, will amount r 



Dahlgren, Charles G., lawyer, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., in 1809 : died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dee. 18, 

 He was a brother of the late Admiral John A. Dahl- 

 gren, United States Navy, removed to Natchez, Miss., 

 r of a branch of the Bank of the 

 United States in 183o. held the office till the liquida- 

 tion of the bank in 1848, and then engaged in cotton- 

 planting and acquired a large fortune. At the out- 

 break of the civil war he raised and equipped the 

 Third Mississippi Regiment for the Confederate serv- 

 ice, and received a brigadier-general's com in 

 During the first two days of the defense of Yicksburg 

 lie was virtually in command, and on the third day 

 was incapacitated for service by a bullet-wound. 

 Subsequently he took part hi the battles of luka. 

 Corinth, Ctiickamauga, Atlanta, and the operations 

 of Gen. Hood's army against Gen. Sherman, and was 

 promoted major-general. After the war he lived in 

 New Orleans till 1870. when he removed to Brooklyn. 



Barley, Felix Octavius Garr, artist, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.. June 23, 18-J2; died near Claymount, Del.. 

 March L'7. 1^8. He received a public-school educa- 

 tion, and in 1836 was placed in a counting-house, but 

 (te for art led him to apply all his leisure to 

 drawing. When eighteen years old be offered a col- 

 lection of original sketches of city life and scenes to 

 ~-aturuay Museum." of Philadelphia, and when 

 they were published and paid for he determined to 

 become an artist. His first collection of sketches at- 

 tracted the attention of New York and Philadelphia 

 publisher-. In 1848 i.e was engaged by the American 

 Art Union to design a series of illustrations for ' 

 ington Irvine's works, and, removing to New York 

 city, he produced the familiar designs in the " Sketch- 

 "Rin Van Winkle," trie "Knickerbocker 

 History of New York.'' the "Life of Washington," 

 and others. He also illustrated several of William 

 Gilmore Simms's novels, and about this time com- 



