Croffut, William

AUGUST US, Ph.D., editor and author, was born in Redding, Conn., Jan. 29, 1836. Began life as a teacher. He has edited a number of papers, and was executive officer of the U. S. geological survey in 1888-91, when he took charge of the editorial division of that bureau. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by Union College. He has written: The War History of Connecticut ; A Helping Hand; The Prophecy, and other Poems, . A poem composed by him was read at the opening of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago.