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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cranch, William 1769- (search)
Cranch, William 1769- Jurist; born in Weymouth, Mass., July 17, 1769; graduated at Harvard in 1789; admitted to the bar in 1790; appointed judge of the circuit court of the District of Columbia in 1801; chiefjustice of the same court in 1805, which office he held until his death, Sept. 1, 1855.
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, C. P. Cranch. (search)
stopher Pearce Cranch was born March 9, 1813, at Alexandria, Virginia, and was the son of Judge William Cranch, of the United States Circuit Court. His father came originally from Weymouth, MassachusCollege, in 1832, after a three-year course. He wished to make a profession of painting, but Judge Cranch was aware how precarious this would be as a means of livelihood, and advised him to study forhe Harvard Divinity-School, and was ordained as a Unitarian clergyman. For the next six years Cranch lived the life of an itinerant preacher. He preached all over New England, making friends everld seem to have been a peculiarity of his temperament; for in 1875 George William Curtis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. Cranch a letter which began with O ye Bedouins ; and it is true that until that time he Mrs. Cranch a letter which began with O ye Bedouins ; and it is true that until that time he can hardly be said to have had a habitation of his own. He extended his migration as minister-at-large from Bangor, Maine, to Louisville, Kentucky. His varied accomplishments made him attractive to