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pleted the course he had laid out, he re- moved to Kansas City, where he engaged in the practice of gynecology and abdominal surgery, a department of medical science to which he continues to give his undivided at- tention. In this work he has come to be recognized as one of the most prominent and successful gynecologists in the State, enjoy- ing the reputation of being a painstaking, cleanly and rapid operator, and a prudent and conservative counselor. Aside from his personal practice, he takes deep interest in all institutions whose work is in any degree allied with this specialty. He is president of the Western Surgical and Gynecological As- sociation, and professor of gynecology in the University Medical College of Kansas City. He is unselfish in communicating to the pro- fession such knowledge as he gains from experience or investigation, and he has con- tributed many able and instructive papers to the leading medical journals, besides read- ing such before the bodies with which he holds fellowship. He has not been neglect- ful of the interest of general medicine. To him is awarded the honor of having origi- nated the Academy of Medicine of Kansas City, and he was its first president. He has occupied the same position in the Jackson County Medical Society, with which he is also connected. Outside his professional life he is actively identified, in a financial and advisory way, with various large enterprises, particularly in mining operations. He is a member of the Congregational Church. In Masonry he holds the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was married, in Febru- ary, 1880, to Miss Anna Fisk, who died in September, 1887. Personally Dr. Crowell is possessed of high character, a genial dispo- sition, and warm, sympathetic emotions. Withal, he is modest and retiring, and his good deeds done for his fellows are accom- plished without self-assertive display.
Crowther, George C., Congressman, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, January 26, 1849. He was educated in the public schools and learned the printer's trade. In 1862 he joined the Union Army and served until the end of the war. He then went to Kansas and engaged in the newspaper business, and was elected secretary of the State Senate of Kansas three terms in suc-
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cession. Afterward he returned to St. Jo- seph and was elected city treasurer for two terms, in 1888 and 1890. In 1892 he was the Republican candidate for Congress and was defeated. In 1894 he was a candidate again and was elected, receiving 15,659 votes, to 14,034 for W. C. Ellison, Democrat, and 2,- 910 for W. S. Messimer, Populist, and 193 for J. S. Manley, Prohibitionist.
Crozat, Anthony,-A wealthy French merchant, who, in 1712, received from the French crown the grant of a monopoly of trade in the Province of Louisiana. He con- tracted to send ships from France with goods and emigrants every year, and was entitled to import a cargo of negro slaves annually. He established a trading post on the site of Montgomery, Alabama, and another at Nat- chitoches, on the Red River. After five years of large outlay and small returns he surren- dered his charter and returned to France. He died in 1738, at the age of eighty-three years.
Crunden, Frederick Morgan, libra- rian. was born September 1, 1847, in Graves- end, England, and came with his parents to this country in his infancy. He is the son of Benjamin R. and Mary (Morgan) Crunden, the mother of mixed Welsh and French de- scent, and the father a representative of one of the old Saxon families of the South of England. In his early childhood his mother was left a widow, and he was reared and educated under her guidance. She was and still is a highly intellectual woman, and to her careful training Mr. Crunden attributes the larger share of what he has achieved. He
was educated in the St. Louis public schools and graduated from the High School in 1865, as valedictorian of his class and winner of a scholarship in Washington University. En- tering college, he supported himself by teach- ing and working during vacations, and in 1868 he received his bachelor's degree from Washington University. For six months thereafter he taught in Smith Academy, and was then appointed principal of the Jefferson School. The following year he was appointed principal of the Benton School, which was conducted in a building which had just been completed and occupied the site of the pres- ent Board of Education Building. A year later he was made instructor in mathematics
and elocution, and afterward professor of elocution in Washington University. This position he held until 1876, when an ailment of his throat caused him to resign his pro- fessorship and spend some time in Colorado. Returning to St. Louis after his recovery he taught in the High School until January of 1877, when he was made librarian of the Pub- lic School Library. When this library was turned over to the city and made a free public library, in 1894, Mr. Crunden was made libra- rian of the improved and enlarged institu- tion, and has held that position up to the present time. He was among those who labored most earnestly to bring about the establishment of the free public library, and one of the most valuable services which he has rendered to St. Louis was in this connec- tion. Since he became identified with this branch of educational work he has been a close student of everything pertaining to the conduct of libraries, and has taken a leading position among the librarians of the country. He was president of the American Library Association during the year 1889-90, and in 1897 went as a delegate to the International Library Conference, held in London, Eng- land, and was one of the vice presidents of that conference. When the famous New- berry Library of Chicago lost the services of the noted Dr. Poole, by death, Mr. Crunden was offered the librarianship of that institu- tion, but declined it as he has declined other advantageous offers from Eastern libraries, preferring to carry forward the work of building up the St. Louis Public Library, to which he has devoted the past twenty-one years. He was one of the early members of the Civil Service Reform Association of St. Louis, and was for many years a member of its executive committee. He was secretary also of the committee which framed the pres- ent school law of St. Louis, is a member of the Single Tax League, and was for several years a vice president of the board of di- rectors of the "National Single Taxer." In addition to these connections he is a member of the Missouri Historical Society, of the St. Louis Academy of Science, and the Mercan- tile Club, and was one of the earliest mem- bers of the University Club, the Round Table, and the Mccullough Dramatic Club. Brought up in a liberal religious faith, Mr. Crunden is a member of the Unitarian Church ; and his political and social creed is
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summed up in the phrase "equal rights to all, special privileges to none." He married, in 1889, Miss Kate Edmondson, daughter of the late Edmund J. Edmondson, a distin- guished English tenor singer and musical director, whose name frequently appeared in high class programs in Manchester and the north of England. Their only child is a son, Frederick Edmondson Crunden.
Crutcher, Edwin Ruthven, promi- nent in the real estate and commercial circles of Kansas City, was born August 29, 1853, near Nashville, Tennessee. His parents were William Henry and Mary Trevilian (Baber) Crutcher. The father was a wholesale mer- chant in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in 1864. The Crutcher family removed to Vir- ginia from Wales in 1675. In 1798 they set- tled in Kentucky. The members of this family were conspicuous on account of the part they took in the important affairs of the time, and their military and official record is of the highest class. The mother of the sub- ject of this sketch was descended from the well known Mayo, Tabb, Trevilian and Baber families, all of whom were prominent in the social and political history of Virginia. One of her ancestors, Colonel William Mayo, laid ont the city of Richmond, Virginia, and, with Colonel William Byrd, ran the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina. Ed- ward Baber, a maternal ancestor, was sent by the English king, in 1654, to take entire charge of affairs in Jamaica, just after that island was surrendered to the English by the Spaniards. He afterward took up his resi- dence in Virginia. His father was one of the charter member of the Virginia Company of London, under the auspices of which all deal- ings with the American Colonies were man- aged. Edwin R. Crutcher lived in Louisville, Kentucky, from childhood and graduated from the high school in that city at the age of sixteen. After leaving school he gave special attention to civil engineering, and ac- cepted a position as assistant sewer engineer of the city of Louisville when he was only seventeen years of age. At the age of twenty-two years he engaged in the corn- milling and grain business in a modest way, and, developing this business rapidly, con- structed, at the end of five years, what was then the largest plant in the country for the manufacture of corn goods, supplying the
Eastern and foreign trade. Mr. Crutcher left Louisville in 1887 and sought a financial business opening in the West. He stopped at Kansas City, Missouri, for a few days, when he was tendered and accepted the cashiership of the Bank of Columbus, at Co- lumbus, Kansas. This position led to that of manager in the New York office of the Jarvis Conklin Mortgage Trust Company. Yielding to an urgent request, he accepted the place of cashier of the Chattanooga Sav- ings Bank and remained there one year, but located permanently in Kansas City in Oc- tober, 1891. In 1892 and 1893 he held the positions of secretary and vice president of the Lombard Investment Company, and in September, 1893, joined Mr. James B. Welsh in organizing the real estate firm of Crutcher & Welsh. The position of this firm has been among the leaders in Kansas City from the very beginning. The firm handles real es- tate and acts as financial agent for a long list of corporations and individual clients. Mr. Crutcher is a member of the Kansas City Commercial Club, the Board of Fire Under- writers, and the Kansas City Real Estate Exchange. Politically he is a Democrat of the sound-money, tariff-for-revenue persua- sion. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church ; is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Albert Pike Lodge, A. F. & A. M., a member of the society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the society of Colonial Wars. Mr. Crutcher was married, in 1875, to Miss Laura Loving, daughter of Judge William V. Loving, one of the most promi- nent jurists and legislators of Kentucky. Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, was nominated for the office of Lieutenant Gov- ernor on the ticket headed by Judge Loving, and the latter being obliged to withdraw from the campaign on account of illness, Morehead was given first place and elected. The Loving family removed to Virginia from England in 1636. Thomas Loving, from whom the line of ancestry is direct, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1659, and was Surveyor Gen- eral of the colony. Sir Thomas Lunsford, another ancestor, who came to America after the restoration of Charles II, originated the term "Roundheads," applied to Cromwell's men, and one day attacked a body of them in the Hall of Parliament, cutting off their ears with his sword. Other intermarriages
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of the Loving family were with the noted Beverly and Lomax families of Virginia. The living children of Mr. and Mrs. Crutcher are Edwin Ruthven, Jr., Loving Trevilian and Wallace Mayo. The head of this excel- lent family is deservedly numbered among the leading men of Kansas City's representa- tive and influential class. In business affairs he has the confidence and esteem of his as- sociates, and is a type of the progressive spirit and integrity that have combined to give the metropolis of western Missouri a substantial, wholesome growth and advance- ment.
Cruzat, Don Francisco, second Lieu- tenant Governor of Upper Louisiana under the Spanish domination, was born in Spain, and entered the Spanish Army in early life. At the time of his appointment to the Lieu- tenant Governorship by Governor Bernardo Galvez he had reached middle life and at- tained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the "Stationary Regiment of Louisiana." He entered upon the discharge of his official duties in St. Louis, May 20, 1775, and held the office for three years thereafter, being succeeded at the end of that time by Ferdi- nand de Leyba. After the death of Leyba he was reappointed and returned to St. Louis in 1780. Soon after his second coming he erected the stockade designed to protect the village against the attacks of hostile Indians. He also purchased during his second admin- istration the stone house at the southeast corner of Main and Walnut Streets, which was used as a government house during the remainder of the period of Spanish domina- tion. His official career ended November 27, 1787, and the impress which he left on the infant settlement evidences the fact that he was an intelligent and discreet public offi- cial.
Crysler, Cornell, was born at Au- burn, New York, September 27, 1829. His father, Philip Crysler, who was of German lineage, was a native of the "Empire State," and is still remembered there as a man of great usefulness and saintly character, whose long life was devoted to the ministry in the Methodist Church, his death occurring when at an advanced age, in the town of Navarino. This was the boyhood home of Cornell. He was studious and ambitious. He attended
school at Onondaga Academy, Monroe Col- legiate Institute, and the State University at Albany, being graduated from the law de- partment of the latter in 1854. Not long afterward he married Miss Nancy W. Dun- lap, a beautiful and amiable girl, whose family was prominent in that county. Housekeeping and the practice of law began in Marcellus. Three children were born to them, Franc, Charles and Cornell. After a few years the gifted young lawyer established himself in Syracuse, where he built up a large and remunerative practice. He became intimately connected with educational mat- ters, and took a leading part in all pro- gressive movements that would benefit his city or State, but declined political honors. He assisted in forming the Republican party, and was a delegate to the first National Con- vention held at Philadelphia in 1856. Among Mr. Crysler's associates at this period were such eminent men as Charles Sumner, for whom he named his eldest son; Horace Greeley, Roscoe Conkling, Ezra Cornell (a relative), and Andrew D. White.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, patriot- ism impelled Mr. Crysler to set aside everv personal interest for the country's need. In 1862 he organized volunteer Company D, of the One Hundred and Twenty-second New York Infantry, and, as captain, led it forth. He served through all campaigns until after the battle of Antietam, and was with Sheri- dan on his famous ride to Winchester. His health was badly impaired by army life, and the climate of his native State proved too severe. In 1866 he removed with his family to Independence, Missouri. He was ap- pointed postmaster in 1873, during Grant's administration, filling the position most ac- ceptably to his townsmen until after the elec- tion of Cleveland, when he resigned the . office. He was elected mayor of Independ- ence in 1890, and discharged his official du- ties with judgment and fidelity until about the close of his term, when his health made it seem best he should retire. Several years were spent at El Dorado Springs, Missouri, where the waters benefited hint and doubtless prolonged his life; but he had returned to Independence and was living in the house of his daughter, when, after an illness of sev- eral months, death came, upon the second day of June, 1900. He was a man respected and admired by those who knew him best.
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He was large-hearted, broad-minded, honor- able and true in every relation in life. His son, CHARLES SUMNER CRYSLER, lawyer, was born in Marcellus, New York, August 21, 1856. His maternal grandfather was a large land-owner in the vicinity of Syr- acuse, a man of strong character, rigid de- termination, iron constitution and handsome physique. The grandson has inherited these traits, and honor and success have attended his efforts in life. Although not old in years, Mr. Crysler may very properly be numbered among the representative men of northwest- ern Missouri. He was ten years of age when his father's family established their home at Independence, and he was fitted for the study of law in the schools at that place. During his boyhood days he was an indus- trious worker and an indefatigable student. After finishing his academic education he read law with Judge J. H. Slover and Abram Comingo, of Independence, when those well known attorneys-the first named of whom is now a circuit judge in Jackson County, and the second named, deceased-were practic- ing together under the firm name of Comingo & Slover. In 1879 Mr. Crysler was admit- ted to the bar by Judge Samuel H. Wood- son. Thereafter he practiced his profession at Independence until 1885, when he re- moved his office to Kansas City, still retain- ing his residence in Independence. In 1890 he established his home in Kansas City and has since resided there. Associating himself in practice with Clarence Kenyon and I. J. Ketcham, in 1886, this professional relation- ship was in existence several years, and the firm became known as a strong combination of legal talent. In 1894 Mr. Crysler became a member of the firm of Harkless, O'Grady & Crysler, now known as one of the strong- est law firms in Missouri. As a member of this firm Mr. Crysler has given special atten- tion to the laws governing corporations, and is recognized, both by the bar and the gen- eral public of Kansas City, as an able cor- poration lawyer. Tempering force and vigor with good judgment and conservatism, he is a wise counselor, as well as a capable trial lawyer. Politically he is a Republican and generally participates in national cam- paigns. In 1879 he married Miss Harriet Child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Child, of Weybridge, Vermont.
Crystal City .- A town in Jefferson County, on Plattin Creek, one-half mile from the Mississippi River, and thirty miles south- west of St. Louis. About 1834 the site, with mineral lands in the vicinity, was entered by an Eastern company, but nothing was done beyond sale of stock. In 1868 three English experts visited the place and shipped two casks of Plattin Creek sand to England, where it was pronounced of superior quality for glass-making. Various attempts were made to found factories, but all were unsuc- cessful, until 1871, when Captain E. B. Ward organized the American Plate Glass Company of Detroit, Michigan, with a capital of $150,000, and works were put into opera- tion in 1872, with Captain Theodore Luce as superintendent. The organization and inter- ests were all with Michigan people, and the name of New Detroit was given the village. The operatives, however, persisted in calling it Crystal City, and after a time the directory came to adopt it. The death of Captain Ward, and the financial panic of 1873, brought disaster, and the glass plant was sold for $25,000 to a St. Louis corporation, the Crystal Plate Glass Company, under the presidency of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, with George F. Neale as superintendent, and the capital stock was increased to $1,500,000. In the development of the property the com- pany became owners of 760 acres of land, of which one-third is sand deposit of the purest quality, testing 99 per cent of silica. The Crystal City Railway, connecting the works with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- ern Railway, at Silica, three and one-half miles distant, is owned and operated by the glass company. The population of Crystal City, in 1899, was estimated at 1,200.
Cuba .- A city of the fourth class, in Crawford County, on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, the junction point of the Salem branch of the same system. It was founded upon the building of the road, though for some years previously it was a thickly settled point. It has a graded school, six churches, a flouring mill, elevator, saw- mill, two hotels and about twenty other busi- ness houses in different branches of trade. The city supports one paper, the "Tele- phone," published by John Harris. It is a delightfully located city, elevated consider-
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ably above the surrounding country and noted for its healthfulness. Population, 1899 (estimated), 900.
Cuivre Club .- A St. Louis club of wealthy amateur sportsmen of ample leisure and means, organized in 1880 by J. B. C. Lucas, Darius Stead, George S. Meyer, Jas. B. Card, J. W. Morton, George Dana, B. W. Lewis, C. B. Burnham, J. C. Van Blarcom, Geo. Edgell, John T. Davis, J. H. McCluney, Wm. L. Huse, Geo. T. McClean and I. H. Holmes. The objects were "to establish a clubhouse for the members, and for the pro- motion of field sports; to preserve and protect game and fish under the laws of Mis- souri, and to obtain hunting and fishing privileges on lands and in waters in St. Charles County, Missouri." It is a strictly exclusive organization, the number of mem- bers being limited to twenty, with an initia- tion fee of five hundred dollars. The annual assessment is not to exceed two hundred dollars for each member. The preserves of the club, three thousand acres, are in St. Charles County, Missouri, not far from Cuivre River, where there is a spacious and elegant clubhouse.
Culbertson, Jerry, lawyer and prose- cuting attorney of Cass County, is descended from a prominent family of the Old Do- minion. He was born at Papinsville. Bates County, Missouri, September 12, 1869, son of Livingston and Mary E. (Douglas) Cul- bertson. His father was born in Scott County, Virginia, and removed to Missouri in 1866, becoming a pioneer farmer and mer- chant of Bates County, and the founder of the town of Rich Hill, which he named and in which he established the first store. The elder Culbertson was a son of David Culbert- son, a native of Virginia, and a member of the Legislature of that State in 1838. The latter, a native of Virginia and a descendant of Scotch ancestry, was a member of the family from which the famous Culbertson family of Texas is descended. Mary E. Douglas, our subject's mother, was a daugh- ter of Colonel George Douglas and a de- scendant of the "Red Douglases," her grand- father having been born and raised in the Grampian Hills, the boundary between Eng- land and Scotland. She died April 4, 1872. Her father, who was born either in the old country or on the ocean while his parents
were en route to America, spent his boyhood in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), and at the age of sixteen joined the regular army of the United States to fight Indians. Before his marriage he came to Missouri, where he continued his service with the United States Army, rising to the rank of colonel. While in the government service he helped to locate the Cherokee Indians at their present reservation in Indian Territory. After leaving the army he became a planter in Bates County, Missouri, and his estate in- cluded about a hundred slaves. Mrs. Cul- bertson also had two brothers who served in the Confederate Army. One of these, George W. Douglas, Jr., was with Price to the end of the war, surrendering at Shreve- port, Louisiana. The other brother, Henry W. Douglas, served with Shelby throughout his campaigns. Livingston Culbertson was also in the Confederate service, and a quar- termaster in the command of Stonewall Jackson. In 1864 he left the Confederate service and located in .Omaha, where he was one of the pioneer merchants, and among his friends there were many men who were and have become eminent in public life. In 1866 he removed to Bates County, Missouri, where he has since resided. Jerry Culbert- son received his elementary education in the common schools of Bates County, and at the age of eighteen years entered St. Francis In- stitute (Catholic), at Osage Mission, Kan- sas. A year later he took a course in Bryant College, at Sprague, Bates County, Missouri, after which he was for a year principal of the graded school at College Hill, in the same county. After a year's course in the State University he taught one year at Old Rich Hill, then took another year in special studies in the State 'University, devoting his time chiefly to literature, economics and meta- physics. He then entered the law depart- ment of the university, and, after a two-year's course, was graduated therefrom, June 3, 1896. Four days later he was admitted to the bar before Judge James H. Lay, and at once opened an office at Rich Hill. Sep- tember 23, 1897, he leased an office in Har- risonville, where he has. since practiced his profession. At Rich Hill, Mr. Culbertson organized a company of infantry and ten- dered its services to the Governor for the Sixth Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regi- ment, recruited for the Spanish-American
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