CRAIK
CRAM
of the university to study law, and he was
licensed to practice in Kanawha county, Va., in
November, 1828. He practised successfully until
he was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Epis-
copal church by Bishop Meade, Dec. 4, 1839. He
was advanced to the priesthood. May 23, 1841.
and was rector at Charlestown, Va., until 1844.
In that year he was called to Christ church,
Louisville, Ky., and continvied as its rector until
his death, when he was succeeded by his young-
est son, Charles Ewell Craik, formerly rector of
the American Episcopal church in Geneva, Swit-
zerland. In 1899 the son was dean of Christ
church cathedral, the parish having been under
charge of father and son for fifty-five years.
Dr. Craik was president of the standing com-
mittee and deputy to the diocesan convention of
Kentucky, and in 1862 was elected president of
the House of clerical and lay deputies of the
General convention of the P.E. church, the
highest office held by a priest in the American
church, to which position he was four times re-
elected. During the civil war he was an
outspoken Union man and did much toward pre-
venting the .secession of Kentucky, and after the
war in reuniting the church, north and south.
Under his influence the Orphanage of the Good
Shepherd and the Church home and infirmary
were established. He was married in 1829 to
Juliet, daughter of Samuel Shrewsbury of Kan-
awha county, Va., and they had eleven children:
James, Mary, Nannie, Samuel, Maria, William,
Joel, Juliet, Hewitt, Fannie and Charles Ewell.
He received the degree of S.T.D. from St. Paul's
college, in 1856, and from Hobart in 1857, and
that of LL.D. from William and Mary. Several
of his writings were adopted as textbooks in
church schools. His works include Old and Xeic
(1850); Search of Truth (1855); and the Divine Life
and Xew Birth (1865; 3d ed.\ 1876); besides nu-
merous pamphlets and sermons. He died in
Louisville, Ky., June 9, 1882.
CRAIK, William, representative, was born near Port Tobacco, Md., Oct. 31, 1761; son of Dr. James and Mariamne (Ewell) Craik. He was admitted to the bar, and was appointed chief ju.stice of the 5th district of Maryland on Jan. 13, 1793, holding the oflice till his resignation in 1796. He was a representative from Marj-land in the 4th, 5th and 6th congresses, 1796-1801, and was again chief justice of the U.S. district court of the 5th judicial district of Maryland from Oct. 20, 1801, to Jan. 28, 1802. He was married to Ann Fitzhugh, daughter of Gen. W^illiam and Ann (Randolph) Fitzhugh of Ravensworth, Va., and a sister of Mrs. G. W. P. Custis. The date of his death could not be ascertained.
GRAIN, William Henry, representative, was born in Galveston, Texas, Nov. 25, 1848, son of
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William Davis and Emily Matilda (Blake) Grain;
grandson of Phebe Grain, a Texas pioneer; and a
descendant of Jasper Crayne, one of the founders
of New Haven, Conn., 1639, and Newark, N.J.,
1666. William was
left fatherless when
six years old and was
thereupon sent to
New \ ork city, where
he wtis placed in the
school of the Chris-
tian brothers. AVhen
fourteen years oi age
he entered the College
of St. Francis Xavi«>r
and was graduated
valedictorian of his
class in 1867. He re-
turned to Texas,
worked two years as
a cowboy on a ranch
and then taught school at Indianola, studied
law in the office of Stockdale & Proctor and
was admitted to the bar in 1871. He was mar-
ried in July, 1873, to Angelina G., daughter
of Capt. I. N. Mitchell of Mitchell's Point,
Calhoun county. _ He was district attorney of
the 16th judicial district, 1872-76, and state
senator from the 28th senatorial district in 1877,
when he resigned, having changed his residence
to Hallettsville, where he was a law partner of
Col, S. C. Patton for four years. He was an
elector for the state at large on the Democratic
electoral ticket in 1880 and canvassed the state
for Hancock and English. In 1881 he removed
to Cuero, Dewitt county, which was included in
the 7th congressional district, under tlie, api^or-
tionment of 1881. Here he became the law part-
ner of the Hon. Rudolph Kleberg, and represented
the 7th district in the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52d
congi-esses. In 1890, by the redistricting of the
state, he came -within the 11th district and rep-
resented it in the 53d and 54th congresses. He
was the first native son of Texas to represent the
state in the national congress. In the House he
was a ready debater, an eloquent orator, and a
careful and painstaking legislator. He died
suddenly from pneumonia in Washington, D.C.,
and was buried at his home in Cuero, Texas.
His funeral was attended by the governor, state
officials and a large delegation from congi-ess.
Bishop Forest officiated at the funeral services,
and Father Smith ®f San Antonio in speaking of
the dead, designated him the " Catholic Ameri-
can." The date of his death is Feb. 10. 1896.
CRAM, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, was born in New Hampshire about 1807. He was gradua- ted at the U.S. military academy in 1826 and was assistant professor of mathematics in the acad-
