Boswell, H. James.  American Blue Book Western Washington, Seattle, Lowman and 
Hanford Co., 1922.  p. 152.

CROSON, CARL E.: I AM SAFE in saying there is no lawyer in Seattle possessed 
of more civic pride than Carl E. Croson, member of the firm of Herr, Croson & 
Bayley, and president of the Seattle Board of Education.  Mr. Croson is a 
native of Illinois.  His educational training was had in the public schools, 
he being a graduate of the Aledo high school. He also graduated from Monmouth 
College, Monmouth, Illinois, taking his A. B. degree. His legal training was 
had in Harvard.  Since 1921 Mr. Croson has served as a member of the Seattle 
Board of Education and is now its president, one of the ablest men who have 
ever held that position.  For three years, 1919-1921 he served as an official 
of the Industrial Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.  During the war 
he organized the famous four minute men of Seattle and in 1918 entered army 
service.  In the various loan and bond drives he worked unceasingly and was 
awarded a badge of merit for his excellent work in that connection.  No man in 
Western Washington enjoys a higher reputation as an orator and the demand made 
upon his time is very heavy, indeed.  The record he has made in moral uplift 
work and education is one he should feel justly proud of.  Mr. Croson is one 
of the most popular members of the Washington bar, and is held in the highest 
esteem.  He is one of the ablest and most convincing pleaders before the 
courts, and has won many substantial verdicts. Mr. Croson, in 1913, married 
Miss Sadie Glen Elder, who passed away in 1916.  There is one  child, a boy.  
Mr. Croson holds membership in the American Legion, Arctic club, Inglewood 
golf and country club, Elks and Mountaineers.  He is also a member of the 
Greek letter fraternity of Alpha Sigma Phi, as well as of the county, state 
and national bar associations.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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