Crownvishield, Feederch (1845-1918) $ Family Crowninshield Crowninshield gainst the Whigs John [q.v.], the future dramatist, at Harvard came highly respected. George Crowninshield II he petitioned College and himself proceeded to the Penob- was a sea-captain and merchant of Salem. Each ve him financial scot River where, at Negue, he built a trading- of his six sons was taken from school early, and, lemanded another post. He later leased the territory to Temple, after a short period in the counting-house, was rrote Sir Courtly who after a short time refused to pay the rent sent to sea as cabin-boy, so that he might learn his many plays or surrender the land. navigation and the art of leadership without hearsal the king With the restoration of Charles II the title serving before the mast. This system of train- three days later of Temple and Crowne to Nova Scotia was ing was completely successful all the brothers fe the struggling jeopardized. Early in 1661 Crowne with his except Edward, who died at Guadeloupe at the ty and want, He son John sailed to England. In London he suc- age of seventeen, commanded ships before they cover his father's cessfully defended their claim to Nova Scotia were twenty, and eventually they displaced the igh he sometimes and secured the suspension of Thomas Breedon Derbys as the leading merchant family of Salem. e failed to secure as governor. As Rouge Dragon he participated Like his brothers, Benjamin was taken from is valuable patri- in the coronation ceremonies in April 1661 and school early and sent to sea as a cabin-boy, London. shortly after resigned the office. While in Eng- commanded a ship before he reached his major- Crowne in the Diet. land he was successfully engaged in making the ity, proceeded from the quarter-deck to the I Franklin White's new government more friendly toward Massa- counting-room, and was made a partner in the atic Works (Cleve- chusetts. In recognition of his services the Gen- world-renowned firm of George Crowinshield & rical treatment and in Pubs Modern eral Court of Massachusetts in October 1662 Sons. On Jan. I, 1804, he was married to Mary Geo. Parker Win- voted him five hundred acres of land. Meanwhile Boardman, daughter of Francis and Mary Bibliog. of John and Allardyce Nic Crowne could secure no settlement from his (Hodges) Boardman of Salem, and sister-in-law 0-1700 (Cambridge, unscrupulous partner; the courts of New Eng- of Nathaniel Bowditch and Zachariah Silsbee. F.M. land, to which he appealed, disclaimed juris- The double misfortune of the Embargo and the 1617-1683 ad diction. A greater misfortune befell in 1667, death of his gifted brother Jacob caused the dis- bout 1617, first when, by the Treaty of Breda, Charles II dis- solution of George Crowninshield & Sons in ich surrounds his regarded the claims of both Crowne and Temple 1809. Benjamin then went into business with n 1636, as ser- and ceded Nova Scotia to France. In the same his father and his brother George, but the fa- LS Howard, Earl year Crowne settled in Mendon, Mass., and be- ther's death in 1815 and George's in 1817 termi- n on a diplomatic came the first town register. There he lived nated the enterprise. He was also president of rmany. After his until 1674 when he went to Rhode Island; by the Merchants Bank of Salem, which was or- 1637 published August 1679 he was again a resident of Boston ganized in I8II in opposition to Federalist banks, A True Relation where he remained until his death four years Meanwhile Benjamin had succeeded Jacob as ?S and Passages later. Efforts to secure compensation for the the politician of the family, sitting as a member mas, Lord How- loss of Nova Scotia were without success; nor of the Massachusetts House of Representatives E the same noble did the sale of his land in Massachusetts and a in 1811 and of the state Senate in 1812. The agon in the Col- small grant from the General Court keep his fame of his brother lent him a reputation that 38. It was prob. declining years free of poverty. his own political prowess did not deserve, and on this event that [The scattered writings about William Crowne are Dec. 19, 1814, the Senate confirmed his appoint- f Richard Mack- brief, inaccurate, and unsatisfactory. Definitive treat- ment is Arthur Franklin White's John Crowne: His ment by President Madison as secretary of /atts. At the out- Life and Dramatic Works (Cleveland, 1922) ; see also the navy. Crowninshield promptly declined and ed the parliamen- "John Crowne and America" by the same author in then, a few days later, dispatched a second let- y to Basil Field- Pubs. Mod. Lang. Asso. of America for Dec. 1920.] F.M. ter accepting the office. The weakness revealed trious services to CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN WIL- in this vacillation marked his whole career in tenant-colone. of four years was LIAMS (Dec. 27, 1772-Feb. 3, 1851) mer- Washington. In deference to his wife, he re- chant, politician, brother of George and Jacob mained in the capital only while Congress was ers. In 1654 he of Parliament for Crowninshield qq.v.], was born in Salem, in session. Consequently, although he dis- Mass., the son of George and Mary (Derby) charged the administrative duties of his office ssed considerable nterested in land Crowninshield. He was a great-grandson of with entire competence, he never mastered the 6 he supplied the Johannes Kaspar Richter von Kronenshelt (or complexities of national politics. President Mon- Thomas Temple Kronenscheldt) who for killing his antagonist roe retained him in office, but Crowninshield was om Charles de la in a duel (F. B. Crowninshield, The Story evidently dissatisfied with the part he was play- ne to America in of George Crowninshield's Yacht, 'Cleopatra's ing and resigned on Oct. I, 1818. He was a fall made a divi- Barge,' 1913, p. 174), was compelled to leave presidential elector on the ticket of Monroe and e became owner the University of Leipzig somewhat hastily. He Tompkins in 1820 and a member of the Massa- including the established himself as a physician in Boston, chusetts lower house again in 1821. In 1823 entered his son married Elizabeth Allen of Lynn, who had been he returned to Washington as a Democrat in one of his patients, anglicized his name, and be- the House of Representatives, was reälected to 577 Crowninshield Crowninshield the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first the American Academy in Rome. He spent Congresses but was defeated in 1830 by Rufus much time abroad, living and painting at Rome, Choate. While in Congress he was a friend Naples, Capri, and Taormina. He wrote poetry and supporter of John Quincy Adams, and an as an avocation: Pictoris Carmina (1900) A ironical, somewhat bewildered, observer of na- Painter's Mood (1902), with his own illustra- tional affairs. In 1833 he was for the third time tions; Tales in Metre and Other Poems (1903); a member of the Massachusetts House, but his Under the Laurel (1907) ; and Villa Mirifiore political career was closed. He moved in 1832 to (1912). Crowninshield's summer studio was at Boston and lived there in retirement for the Stockbridge, Mass., and there, in his last year, rest of his life. His death came suddenly, while when his serious illness was reported from Capri, he was ascending the steps of a business house. where he died, a special exhibition of his works He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. was arranged by the Stockbridge Art Associa- [Biog. Direct. of the Am. Cong. 1774-1927 (1928) tion. In April 1919, at the Boston Museum of Essex Inst. Hist. Coils., XV, 285 (1879) ; Boston Tran- Fine Arts, a Crowninshield Memorial Exhibi- script, Feb. 3, 1851 Memoirs of John Quincy Adams (1874-77) ; The Diary of William Bentley, D.D., vol. tion was hung. This included some of the many IV (1914) F. B. Crowninshield, ed., Letters of Mary water-colors, usually of architectural subjects, Boardman Crowninshield 1815-16 (1905) ; same, The which the artist made in Italy. Of them the Story of George Crowninshield's Yacht, 'Cleopatra's Barge' (privately printed, 1913) ; letters of Crownin- Boston Herald (Apr. I3, 1919) said: "A cheer- shield among the Warren Papers in the archives of the ful grayness pervades them, for Mr. Crownin- Mass. Hist. Soc. and in the MSS. Division of the Lib. shield, like most colorists who learned their art of Cong.] G.H.G. in France in the seventies, was disinclined to CROWNINSHIELD, FREDERIC (Nov. 27, overstate the brilliancy of nature." 1845-Sept. I3, 1918), painter, writer, was born [Crowninshield put on record some of his precepts at Boston, a son of Edward A. and Caroline M. and principles in his book, Mural Painting (1887). The Harvard Grads. Mag., Sept. 1909, published a good bio- (Welch) Crowninshield, and a scion of a famous graphical sketch. "L. W. H." wrote from Stockbridge Salem family. He was prepared for college at an appreciation printed in the Boston Transcript, Aug. the Boston Latin School and was graduated from 30, 1918. References to Crowninshield's Boston studio are found in H. Winthrop Peirce, Early Days of the Harvard in 1866 In the following year he was Copley Soc. (1903). See also obituary in Boston Tran- married to Helen S. Fairbanks of Boston. Pos- script, Sept. 14, 1918.] F.W.C. sessed of ample means and a taste for art, which CROWNINSHIELD, GEORGE (May 27, had been stimulated by lessons from Dr. William 1766-Nov. 26, 1817), sea-captain, merchant, pio- Rimmer, he went to Paris in 1867 and entered neer yachtsman, was the eldest son of George the École des Beaux-Arts. He afterward studied and Mary (Derby) Crowninshield, and brother in Italy, remaining abroad until 1878. He then of Benjamin Williams and Jacob Crowninshield returned to Boston and for seven years occupied [qq.v.]. Young George, like the rest of his a studio, a local landmark, in the rear of the Mu- brothers, received a common school education seum of Fine Arts. He served, under Otto Grund- until he was eleven, and then, after studying mann, as instructor in drawing and painting navigation, was sent to sea as a captain's clerk. and lecturer on anatomy in the museum school. He was in command of a ship to the West Indies In 1886 Crowninshield removed to New York to in 1790 and four years later he was command- devote himself to stained glass and mural paint- ing the Belisarius to the East Indies. About ing, foreseeing a great development of these arts 1800 he came ashore to assist his father in the in the United States. He was one of the or- counting-house, directing the extensive commer- ganizers of the National Society of Mural Paint- cial interests of George Crowninshield & Sons. ers. He was a frequent exhibitor with the Archi- The firm made great profits from the America tectural League of New York, of which he was and their other privateers in the War of 1812. a vice-president. His windows included the de- Upon his father's death in 1815, the firm dis- piction of "Hector and Andromache" for Memo- solved and George retired to live upon his very rial Hall, Harvard University, and the Good- ample income. He always had a love of the spec- rich window, Church of the Ascension, New tacular, dressing in the extreme of fashion with York, and he did mural paintings for the Munici- bizarre waistcoat, shaggy beaver hat, and tas- pal Building, Cleveland, Ohio, the Hotels Wal- seled Hessian boots. He drove a flashy yellow dorf and Manhattan, New York, and many other curricle and attracted attention by taking a ship buildings. In 1900 he became president of the to Halifax to bring back the bodies of Capt. Fine Arts Federation of New York. He took Lawrence and Lieut. Ludlow of the Chesapeake. interest in training younger artists for decora- Most conspicuous, however, were his pioneer tive work, and served (1900-II) as director of activities as a yachtsman. About the time that 578 Crowninshield Crozer He spent he settled down in 1800, he built the first Amer- Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses and was ng at Rome ican yacht, the little Jefferson, in which he regarded as one of the ablest members of the vrote poetry cruised around Massachusetts Bay, sometimes Republican party. In 1805 President Jefferson (1900) making thrilling rescues after storms. After his invited him to succeed Robert Smith [q.v.] as wn illustra- retirement in 1815 he built a more elaborate secretary of the navy. Crowninshield felt com- ms (1903); yacht, Cleopatra's Barge, in which he sailed to pelled to decline, but the President nevertheless la Mirifiore the Mediterranean in 1817, carrying with him sent his nomination to the Senate. It was con- tudio was at more than three hundred letters to consuls and firmed, and according to the records of the De- is last year, other officials in Europe. The yacht was the partment of State Crowninshield was secretary from Capri, first sea-going vessel of her class, and aroused of the navy from Mar. 3, 1805, until Mar. 7, of his works considerable wonderment, throngs of visitors 1809, although he never assumed the duties of art Associa coming aboard at every foreign port. The Euro- the office. On May 18, 1807, his wife died. His Museum of peans marveled at the crew where even the negro own health grew precarious. The rugged young rial Exhibi- cook knew the mysteries of navigation. Crownin- viking, who could take a clipper from Salem of the many shield died suddenly at Salem a few weeks after round the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta and al subjects, his return from this cruise. He had never mar- back again, succumbed to the stuffy, unventilat- if them the ried. He was a short man, remarkably robust ed atmosphere of the hall of the House of Repre- : "A cheer- and strong, with a high reputation for courage. sentatives. Blood gushed from his throat as he : Crownin- [B. W. Crowninshield, "Account of the Yacht Cleo- brought his last speech to a close. He died while ed their art 'patra's Barge" in the Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., XXV, Congress was still in session, and his body was sinclined to 81-117 (1888), includes a biographical sketch of Crowninshield with verbatim quotations from contem- brought back to Salem for burial. "We lament porary newspapers. Further biographical details will him very much for his Natural Abilities, his his precepts be found in the same collections, III, 163 (1861), and great Commercial knowledge, his sincere vir- (1887). The in F. Crowninshield, The Story of George Crownin- d a good bio- shield's Yacht, 'Cleopatra's Barge' (privately printed, tues, & his inflexible patriotism," the Rev. Wil- I Stockbridge 1913). There is a full account of Crowninshield and liam Bentley wrote in his diary for Apr. 20, inscript, Aug. his yacht in R. D. Paine, Ships and Sailors of Old 1808. "I have known him from a lad & have Boston studio Salem (revised ed., 1923), pp. 172-81. The history of Days of the the Cleopatra's Barge is continued in S. E. Morison, nothing to blame in him. He was everything in Boston Tran Maritime Hist. of Mass. (1921), p. 262.] every domestic, social, & civil relation. Had he F.W.C. R.G.A-n. not been confined in his early education & early (May 27, CROWNINSHIELD, JACOB (May 3I, 1770- been engaged in the business of the Seas he rchant, pio- Apr. I5, 1808), sea-captain, merchant, congress- would have left none before him." of George man, was born in Salem, Mass., the son of [Vital Records of Salem, Mass., to the Year 1850, and brother George and Mary (Derby) Crowninshield, and vols. I, III, V (1916, 1924, 1925) B. W. Crownin- shield, "An Account of the Yacht Cleopatra's Barge" owninshield brother of George and Benjamin Williams in Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., XXV, 81-108 (1888) The rest of his Crowninshield [qq.v.]. Jacob was the second Diary of William Bentley, D.D. (4 vols., 1905-14) 1 education Essex Register (Salem, Mass.), Apr. 23, 27, 1808; son and the most gifted member of the family. Salem (Mass.) Gasette, Apr. 26, 1808 T. H. Benton, IT studying He was master of the schooner Active on a voy- ed., Abridgment of the Debates of Congress 1789- cain's clerk. age to Europe in 1790. In 1791 he took the 1856, vol. III (1856) Henry Adams, Hist. of the U.S. (1889-91) ; H. R. W. Cooke, The Driver Family (pri- West Indies Henry to the West Indies. On Nov. 3, 1792, vately printed, 1889) ; F. A. Gardner, Thomas Gard- command- he returned from Calcutta and the Isle of France ner, Planter, and Some of his Descendants (Salem, ies. About Mass., 1907) ; H. S. Tapley, Salem Imprints 1768-1825 (Mauritius). On Jan. 23, 1793, he sailed again (Salem, 1927) ; B. B. Crowninshield, "An Account of ther in the for India in the Henry, returning in November the Private Armed Ship America of Salem" in Essex ve commer- 1794. In April 1796 he brought to New York, in Inst. Hist. Calls., XXXVII, I-76 (1901).] G.H.G. 1d & Sons. the famous armed ship America, the first live CROZER, JOHN PRICE (Jan. I3, 1793-Mar. e America elephant ever seen in the United States. It was II, 1866), manufacturer, philanthropist, was de- ar of 1812. a female six feet four inches high and sold for scended from James Crozier, a French Hu- e firm dis- $10,000. Crowninshield married Sarah, daugh- guenot, who in 1700 went from France to An- on his very ter of John and Sarah (Derby) Gardner, June trim, Ireland, whence he emigrated to America of the spec- 5, 1796, and remained ashore thereafter, devot- and settled in Delaware County, Pa. He mar~ ishion with ing himself to his extensive commercial inter- ried Esther Gleave (J. H. Martin, History of .t, and tas- ests and to politics. Like the other members of Chester, 1877, pp. 454-55). The son James shy yellow his family, he was an uncompromising support- Samuel Crozer married Sarah Price, and John king a ship er of Jeffersonian policies. In I801 he was elect- Price Crozer, one of their five children, was S of Capt. ed to the Massachusetts state Senate. In the born at West Dale, Delaware County, Pa., in hesapeake. following year he defeated Timothy Pickering the house where some years before Benjamin is pioneer [q.v.] in a bitterly contested race for the national West, the painter, had been born. Educated a time that House of Representatives. He served in the locally and surrounded by Quaker and Baptist 579 FirstSearch: WorldCat List of Records Page 1 of 3 OC LC FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV WorldCat List of Records Click on a title to see the detailed record. Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. 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Wilmers + helie L. sloom Federic Crown should; a Reviews ltas in the golded Age Anderst UMASS, 2010. us Incers is the Great ground of 7.G. 7c. (1845-1918) STATE 1stborn son of Edward Argustus (1817-1859) ad Caulin's M. Welch (1820-1897). Brn in Boston. The Crommobd has made a fortune in trade to th East Ardies. The family programston Jolarus ven Kionexsheldt (1644-1781) had arroud in Salem from Luegage A doctor P. 288, In 2865, Ressell Sturgis designed a house n.212 m Newport for Sam and Anaa Ward which was later borgot by Edith Whaten. (before she built in Lenex) and normed Land's End.