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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GRAIN CULLUM.) 



the Pennsylvania Historical Society from 1884 till his 

 death. Mr. Coxe published a translation, with origi- 

 nal notes, of Guterbock's " Bracton in his Eelation to 

 the Roman Law" (1866;, and at the time of his death 

 was putting through the press a study of the Ameri- 

 can Constitution, on which he had been at work for 

 many years. He had just completed " An Essay on 

 Judicial Decisions and Unconstitutional Legislation." 



Grain, Peter Wood, jurist, born in Charles County, 

 Md., Jan. 9, 1806 ; died in Baltimore, Md., March 30, 

 1892. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, was elected 

 to the Legislature in 1841, was lirst appointed judge 

 of the 1st Judicial Circuit in 1846, and held the office 

 by reappointment till 1851, when the new State Con- 

 stitution made the judiciary elective. He was elected 

 to the office for a term of ten years, being nominated 

 by both political parties. From this court he was 

 promoted to the Court of Appeals, where he served 

 till 1867, when he resumed practice till his retirement, 

 in 1878. Throughout his public career he was actively 

 identified with State affairs, and he became widely 

 known by his opposition to the scheme of Gov. 

 Thomas for the repudiation of the State debt. 



Cranch, Christopher Pearse, artist and poet, born in 

 Alexandria, Va., March 8,1813; died in Cambridge, 

 Mass., Jan. 20, 1892. He was the son of Chief-Justice 

 Cranch, a noted jurist. He was graduated at Colum- 

 bian College, Washington, D. C., in 1831, and at the 

 Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, in 1835, and 

 preached for a few years in Unitarian pulpits, but re- 

 tired from the ministry in 1842, and turned his atten- 

 tion to landscape painting. In 1846 he went to Italy 

 to study for two years, and in 1853 returned to Europe 

 and lived there for ten years, in which time he painted 

 many Swiss and Italian landscapes. Eeturning to 

 America in 1863, he was chosen a member of the Na- 

 tional Academy the next year, but ceased to contribute 

 to its exhibitions after 1871. The latest years of his 

 life were passed mainly in Cambridge, and he num- 

 bered among his intimate friends there both Lowell 

 and Longfefiow. He was a man of many gifts, but 

 his personality was more to his friends than anything 

 that lie ever did in poetry or painting. His nature 

 was generous and serene, and he attached his friends 

 strongly to him. Among strangers he \vas reserved 

 even to coldness, but to those whose privilege it was 

 to know him well he revealed himself as one of the 

 most delightful of men. He failed to gain popular 

 applause for his work, and this he seems to have been 

 conscious of; but although this may have intensified 

 his native reserve, it did not make him bitter. After 

 a long illness, he died, leaving behind him the memory 

 of a very sweet and tender soul. Some of his more 

 noted paintings are: "October Afternoon" (1867); 

 " Val de Moline, Amain, Italy " (1869) ; " Venice " 

 (1870); Venetian Fishing Boats" (1871). He pub- 

 lished " Poems" (Philadelphia, 1844) ; "The Last ot 

 the Iluggermuggers " (1856) and "Kobboltzo" (1857), 

 prose tales for children, illustrated by himself; a 

 blank- verse translation of the "JEneid" (1872); 

 "Satan: A Libretto" (Boston, 1874); "The Bird 

 and the Bell, with Other Poems" (Boston, 1875; 



Crawford, Samuel Wylie, military officer, born in 

 Franklin County, Pa., Nov. 8, 1829; died in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., Nov. 3, 1892. He was graduated at the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1846, studied medicine, 

 and entered the United States army as assistant sur- 

 geon in 1851. He served in various forts in the South- 

 west, chiefly in Texas, till 1860, when he was sta- 

 tioned first at Fort Moultrie and afterward at Fort 

 Sumter, where he commanded one of the batteries 

 during the memorable bombardment in April, 1861. 

 After the surrender of Major Anderson's garrison he 

 was stationed at Fort Columbus, New York harbor, 

 till August, 1861, and then, resigning his commission 

 of assistant surgeon, he accepted the appointment of 

 major in the 13th United States Infantry. In the fol- 

 lowing year he was commissioned brigadier-general 



of volunteers. He served with distinction in the 

 Shenandoah campaign, was present at the battles of 

 Winchester and Cedar Mountain, losing half of his 

 brigade in the last-named action, and succeeded Gen. 

 Mansfield in command of his division at the battle of 

 Antietam, where he was severely wounded. Early 

 in 1863 he was placed in command of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Keserves, then stationed in the vicinity of 

 Washington, which troops comprised the 3d division 

 of the 5th Army Corps. He again distinguished him- 



was brevetted colonel, brigadier-general, and major- 



feneral, for gallantry at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, 

 pottsylvania, Petersburg, Five Forks, and other bat- 

 tles. In 1866 he was mustered out of the volunteer 

 service. He served with his regiment in the South 

 till February, 1869, when he was appointed colonel of 

 the 16th Infantry, was subsequently transferred to the 

 2d Infantry, and was retired on account of disability 

 resulting from wounds, with the rank of brigadier- 

 general, 'United States Army, in February, 1873. 



Crosby, William Henry, educator, born in New York 

 city, June 28, 1808 ; died there. May 21, 1892. He was 

 a son of William Bedlow Crosby, and the eldest 

 brother of Howard Crosby. He was graduated at 

 Columbia College in the same class with Hamilton 

 Fish in 1827; studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar in New York; but, preferring the field of litera- 

 ture and the classics, he accepted a call to the profess- 

 orship of Latin and Greek at Rutgers College in 1841, 

 where he remained for eight years. In 1849 he re- 

 moved to Poughkeepsie, and was there engaged in 

 literary pursuits for ten years. During 1859-^60 h 

 occupied temporarily the chair of Latin Language 

 and Literature in Columbia College, and since then 

 he had lived in retirement, the greater part of the 

 time in Poughkeepsie. He was the Vice-President 

 of the New York Bible Society. 



Crowninshield, Benjamin William, military officer, born 

 in Boston, Mass., March 12, 1837 ; died in Rome, Italy, 

 Jan. 17, 1892. He was graduated at Harvard Univer- 

 sity in 1858. He entered the national army as 1st 

 lieutenant in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Dec. 19, 

 1861 j served through several ot the campaigns in 

 Virginia ; was an aid on the staff of Gen. Sheridan in 

 1864 ; and resigned from the army with the rank of 

 colonel in June, 1865. He was long identified with 

 the Massachusetts Humane Society, and he published 

 a history of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in 1890. 



Cullis, Charles, physician, born in Boston, Mass., 

 March 7, 1833 ; died there, June 17, 1892. lie suf- 

 fered from ill health in boyhood ; was induced to 

 take up the study of medicine ; and about the time of 

 receiving his diploma he became deeply interested in 

 religious matters, and was confirmed in the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church. About 18(32 he became such a 

 strong believer in the power of feeling in answer to 

 prayer, that he inaugurated what has since been 

 known as the Faith-cure movement. He wore his 

 life away in this work, and during his career, by 

 praver alone, he raised several hundred thousand 

 dollars with which to carry on his various enter- 

 prises, claiming that he had never asked any one but 

 the Lord to supply a cent. Among the institutions 

 established and managed by him were the Consump- 

 tives' Home at Grove Hall ; the Faith-cure College at 

 Boston; the Children's Home, the Boy nton Orphan- 

 age and Institute for Colored Children in Virginia; 

 the Chinese Mission in California ; two schools in 

 India; the Cancer Home at Walpole; the Spinal 

 Home ; and the Deaconess House. These institu- 

 tions cost more than $500,000. In 1890 he spent 

 $46,000 for a tract of land on which to erect a church 

 edifice, parsonage, and business house, and $70,000 for 

 an estate of 150 acres at Wellesley Hills, where he 

 intended building a larger consumptives' home. 



Cullum, George Washington, military officer, born in 

 New York city, Feb. 25, 1809 ; diecl there, Feb. 28, 

 1892. He was graduated at the United States Mill- 



