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$30,000. It is believed that he gave in all for 

 charitable and religious purposes $1,000,000. 

 Mr. Cornell was a member of the American 

 Bible Society, the City Church Extension So- 

 ciety, General Missionary Society, Methodist 

 Episcopal Church Home Society, Board of 

 Managers of St. Christopher's Home for Chil- 

 dren, president of the board of trustees of 

 Drew Theological Seminary, member of the 

 Union League Club, and the only Christian 

 member of the Hebrew Society for the Im- 

 provement of Deaf Mutes. 



Cornly, James Madison, an American journal- 

 ist, born in Perry County, Ohio, March G, 1832; 

 died in Toledo, Ohio, July 26, 1887. When 

 ten years old he removed to Columbus, where 

 he was apprenticed to the printing business, 

 working in the offices of " The Cross and Jour- 

 nal " and " The Ohio State Journal." While 

 learning his trade, he attended school at inter- 

 vals, obtaining the necessary means by work- 

 ing at night, and availing himself of the op- 

 portunities of the State Library for profitable 

 reading. He was graduated at the high-school 

 in 1848, and shortly afterward began studying 

 law in the office of Attorney-General Wolcott, 

 from which he was admitted to the bar in 1859. 

 Soon after the firing on Fort Surnter he en- 

 listed as a private in an independent company, 

 which for several months was charged with the 

 duty of guarding the Marietta and Cincinnati 

 Railroad from Virginia raiders. He entered 

 the U. S. service in June, 1861, and in Au- 

 gust following was commissioned lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Forty-Third Ohio Regiment. In 

 October of the same year, having asked a re- 

 duction in rank in consideration of being 

 transferred to a regiment actually in the field, 

 he was mustered as major of the Twenty- 

 Third Regiment of Ohio Infantry, succeeding 

 Rutherford B. Hayes, who had been promoted 

 to lieutenant-colonel. He was successively 

 promoted to be lieutenant-colonel and colonel 

 of this famous regiment, commanding it in all 

 of the fights in which it took part, and winning 

 the rank of brevet brigadier-general. At the 

 close of the war, Geu. Cornly resumed the 

 practice of law in Columbus, but soon aban- 

 doned it for journalism, and purchased a con- 

 trolling interest in "The Ohio State Journal." 

 He was postmaster at Columbus from 1872 till 

 1 876, and United States Minister to the Sandwich 

 Islands from 1877 till 1883. On his return to 

 Ohio he removed to Toledo, where he pur- 

 chased the " Commercial," which he edited 

 till within a short time of his death. He was 

 considered one of the strongest and best-in- 

 formed Republican editors in the country, and 

 was equally effective with speech and pen. 



Craven, Thomas Tingey, an American naval 

 officer, born in Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 30, 

 1808; died in Charleston, S. C., Aug. 23, 1887. 

 He entered the navy as midshipman in 1822, 

 was promoted to past midshipman, 1828, com- 

 ned lieutenant in 1830, commander in 

 1852, captain in 1861, commodore in 1862, and 



rear-admiral in 1866, and placed on the retired 

 list in 1869. He was in command of the steam- 

 sloop " Brooklyn " during the attack and pas- 

 sage of forts Jackson and St. Philip, and at the 

 capture of New Orleans and Vicksburg. In 

 the attack upon the forts his vessel became 

 entangled in the obstructions in the river, and 

 received a severe fire from Fort St. Philip, be- 

 sides being attacked by two vessels, one a ram ; 

 but he got his ship clear without material in- 

 jury. At Vicksburg he was engaged with the 

 enemy's batteries nearly three hours. He 

 commanded the steam-frigate " Niagara " on 

 special service in European waters in 1864-'65, 

 was commandant of the Mare Island Navy- 

 yard, San Francisco, Cal., in 1867-'68, and com- 

 manded the North Pacific squadron, 1869. 



Crocker, Uriel, an American publisher, born in 

 Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 13, 1796 ; died near 

 Cohasset, Mass., July 19, 1887. He went to 

 Boston in 1811, and was apprenticed to the 

 printing business in the office of Samuel T. 

 Armstrong. On Nov. 1, 1818, shortly after he 

 and his fellow-apprentice, Osmyn Brewster, 

 became of age, Mr. Armstrong took them into 

 partnership with him, and in 1825 the young 

 men bought out their employer's interest, con- 

 tinuing the business in the same place from 

 that time till 1865, when they removed to an ad- 

 joining building, remaining there till 1875, when 

 they retired from business. The firm passed 

 safely through the financial crises of 1837 and 

 1857, and their reputation was continental. 

 They made a specialty of religious and educa- 

 tional books, and their six-volume edition of 

 " Scott's Family Bible," published shortly after 

 Mr. Armstrong took his apprentices into part- 

 nership, was at the time the largest work that 

 had ever been stereotyped in this country. Mr. 

 Crocker was for over fifty years an active pro- 

 moter of the Bunker Hill Monument project, 

 and was concerned in other large enterprises 

 besides publishing. He was an original or- 

 ganizer of the Old Colony Railroad, and for 

 forty years one of its directors ; a director of 

 the Concord Railroad ; a director, vice-presi- 

 dent, and president of the Atlantic and Pa- 

 cific and St. Louis and San Francisco railroads, 

 and director and president of the United States 

 Hotel Company, and of the Revere House As- 

 sociation. In November, 1886, a reception 

 was held at Mr. Crocker's residence in Boston, 

 at which the families and friends of the vener- 

 able partners celebrated with them the seventy- 

 fifth anniversary of their first meeting in Mr. 

 Armstrong's office. 



Curry, Daniel, an American clergyman, born 

 near Peekskill, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1809 ; died in 

 New York city, Aug. 17, 1887. He was gradu- 

 ated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, 

 Conn., in 1827 and the same year appointed 

 Principal of the Troy Conference Academy, 

 New York. He entered the ministry of tho 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in Macon, Ga., 

 in 1841, and occupied pulpits in that city, 

 Athens, Savannah, and Columbus, till tho 



