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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
one so efficient, educated, modest and gentlemanly as he
whose fiftieth anniversary it is proposed to celebrate. So
highly pleased were the conference and myself with his
service in 1884 that it was my great pleasure to have him
again elected in 1888."
The letter from Rev. C. H. Payne, D,D., secretary of
the Board of Education of the M. E. Church, included the
following :
" With all my heart I gladly respond to your proposal
with reference to the testimonial of brotherly regard for
Prof. Crogman. I have known Prof. Crogman for years :
indeed, our boyhood years were passed not many miles
from each other. I have watched his course with a broth¬
er's interest, and have rejoiced to see his loyalty to prin¬
ciple and his fidelity to duty. Few men in our church
have rendered more faithful or useful service in our educa¬
tional work than Prof. Crogman; few men have steadily
and unwaveringly maintained a more straightforward and
manly course, or acted more wisely under all circumstances
than has he."
A letter from Bishop Mallalieu included the following ;
" Dr. Crogman is a man in whom I have had the greatest
confidence. He is an honor to the human race. I wish
the world was full of such men. I trust many years of
honorable and enjoyable usefulness remain to him."
Bishop Warren wrote as follows:
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