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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CRAGIN CURRIER.) 



to New York in time to aid in defending it during 

 the draft riots. 



Cragin, Aaron H., lawyer, born in Weston, Vt., 

 Feb. 3, 1821 ; died in Washington, I). C., May 10, 

 1898. He was admitted to the bar in Albany, X. Y., 

 in 1847, and settled in Lebanon, N. H., the same 

 year. In 1852 he was elected to the Legislature, 

 where he served four continuous terms ; in 1854 and 

 1856 he was elected to Congress on the American 

 ticket ; in 1859 was again elected to the Legislature ; 

 and in 1860 was a delegate to the National Repub- 

 lican Convention in Chicago. He was elected United 

 States Senator, and took his seat in 1865, and was 

 re-elected in 1870 for the term expiring March 3. 

 1877. During his last term he was chairman of 

 the Committee on Naval Affairs and a member of 

 the Committees on Territories and Railroads. 



Cramer, Michael John, clergyman, born in 

 Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 1835; died in 

 ( 'arlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1898. He came to the United 

 States with his father in 1845, learned the printer's 

 trade in Cincinnati, and was graduated at the Ohio 

 Wesley an University in 1860. After a service of 

 four years in the Methodist ministry in Cincinnati 

 and Nashville he was appointed a chaplain in the 

 regular army, where he remained till 1867, when 

 President Johnson made him United States consul 

 at Leipsic. During his residence there he attended 

 lectures on theology and philosophy at the Univer- 

 sities of Leipsic and Berlin, and preached every 

 Sunday at an American chapel service, which he 

 organized in Leipsic. In 1870 he was appointed by 

 President Grant, whose sister he had married, Unit- 

 ed States minister to Denmark ; and in 1881 Presi- 

 dent Garfleld transferred him to Switzerland. He 

 returned to the United States in the summer of 

 1885, having been elected Professor of Systematic 

 Theology in Boston University. After a year there 

 he resigned, removed to East Orange, N. J., and 

 occupied the chair of Church History at Drew 

 Theological Seminary for a year. In the autumn 

 of 1897 he was elected Professor of Philosophy at 

 Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., where he served 

 until his death. He received the degree of D. D. 

 from Syracuse University, and that of LL. D. from 

 Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr. Cramer spoke five 

 modern languages, and was an excellent Latin,Greek, 

 and Hebrew scholar, and published a large number 

 of essays of an exegetical and biblico-critical char- 

 acter. During his residence abroad he collected a 

 working theological library of 5,000 volumes, many 

 of them rare, which he announced he should be- 

 queath to Ohio Wesleyan University. 



Cruder, Stephen van Rensselaer, soldier, born 

 in Xew York city. May 9, 1844; died in Bayville, 

 X. Y., June 23, 1898. His great grandfather, John 

 Cruger, was the first mayor of New York. His 

 grandfather on his mother's side was Stephen van 

 Kensselaer, of Albany. He was studying in Europe 

 when the civil war began. He came home, and re- 

 ceived a commission as 1st lieutenant in the 150th 

 New York Regiment, lie participated in the battle 

 of Gettysburg in 1863, and for gallantry was pro- 

 moted adjutant in August. His regiment joined 

 Sherman's army, being assigned to the 20th Army 



'i'1-ps; and with it he took part in the At l.-uita cam- 

 paign. He was twice wounded at the battleof Uesaca. 

 It was feared that he would never be fit for service 

 again, and an honorable discharge was sent him, 

 but in the course of three or four months he applied 

 for restoration to his command, and, being ree< mi- 

 missioned, joined his regiment in September, 1864, 

 and took part in the " march to the sea." In the 

 battle of Averysboro his horse was shot under him. 

 Previous to the surrender of Johnston Adjutant 



'nigerwas promoted to the rank of captain, and 

 was appointed chief of ordnance of the 1st Division, 



20th Corps, commanded by Gen. A. S. Williams, in 

 which post he served till mustered out in June, 1865. 

 He was brevetted major and lieutenant colonel " for 

 gallant and meritorious conduct during the cam- 

 paign through Georgia and the Carolinas." In 1870 

 he was commissioned major of the 12th Regiment, 

 N. G. S. N. Y. ; promoted lieutenant colonel in 1875 ; 

 and colonel in 1877, remaining in command of the 

 regiment till 1883. In 1867 he entered the real- 

 estate business, and some of the largest landed in- 

 terests in New York city and its neighborhood were 

 under his management. He was comptroller of 

 Trinity Church corporation, and for a time senior 

 warden of the church. In politics Mr. Cruger was 

 a Republican, but he frequently opposed the leaders 

 of his party, although he was a member of the lie- 

 publican County Committee for years. In 1888 he 

 was the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, but was 

 defeated. He was a Park Commissioner under 

 Mayor Strong, and for a time president of the Park 

 Board. He was connected as director and trustee 

 with many large corporations, and was trustee of 

 the New York Public Library. He married Julie 

 Grinnell, daughter of Thomas W. Storrow, of Bos- 

 ton, an author who writes under the pen name of 

 Julien Gordon. 



Crummell, Alexander, clergyman, born in New 

 York city in 1819 ; died in Point Pleasant, N. J., 

 Sept. 9, 1898. His father was a native of Africa, 

 and young Crummell, after enjoying such meager 

 educational facilities as were given to members of 

 his race, in 1835 entered a school at Canaan. X. 1 1.. 

 but the prejudice against the higher education of 

 the negroes was so intense that he was not per- 

 mitted to remain. Afterward he entered the Onci< la 

 Institute, remained there three years, and in 1839 

 applied for admission to the General Theological 

 Seminary. His application caused bitter opposition 

 and was refused. In 1848 he went to England and 

 was graduated at Cambridge in 1853. Owing to 

 his delicate health he then entered the missionary 

 service and was located in Liberia twenty years, 

 during which time he acted as principal of the 

 Alexandria High School and president of the Liberia 

 College. He went to Washington, D. C., in is;:; 

 and founded St. Luke's Church, of which he was 

 rector till 1895. In 1897 he organized in New York 

 city the American Negro Academy. He published 

 " The English Language in Liberia " (1861) ; " The 

 Future of Africa " (1862) ; "The Negro Race not 

 under a Curse " (1863) ; "The Greatness of Christ, 

 and Other Sermons" (1882); and "Africa and 

 America" (1891). 



Currier, Moody, lawyer, born in Boscawen, N. H., i 

 April 22, 1806; died in 'Manchester, N. II.. Sept. .':;, 

 1898. He was graduated at Dartmouth College in 

 1834; became a teacher and editor ; studied law and 

 was admitted to the bar at Manchester in isn. 

 Though successful as a lawyer he gave up its prac- 

 tice to become cashier of the Amoskeag Hank in 

 1848, and in 1864 was elected president of t lie 

 Amoskeag National Hank. Marly in life lie entered 

 the Democratic party; was State Senator in 184:!- 

 '44; became an ardent Republican in 1854: and in 

 1860-'61 performed valuable service toward raising 

 and equipping troops for the civil war. He was a 

 presidential elector in 1876. He was unsuccessful 

 as a candidate for Governor in 1882, but was elected 

 to that, office in 1884 by a three-fourths vote. Mr. 

 Currier was a liberal friend of public libraries and 

 churches, presenting more than 700 volumes to I In 

 library of Manchester and making gifts of mone\ 

 to colleges and academies. He acquired an inti- 

 mate knowledge of the modern languages of Kumpe. 

 and published for private circulation a volume con- 

 taining translations from French, (Jerinan, Italian 

 and Spanish. (See GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) 



