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ing hia profession at Gilmanton and Laconia fourteen years, he removed to Hanover. He was the first to open an abscess at the hipjoint. In 1838 he was called to the chair of surgery in the medical department of Dartmouth'. He died Sept. 26, 1873, in Sandwich. Crosby, Eben, soldier. He served with distinction in the United States army throughout the civil war, losing an arm at Gettysburg. In 1866 he was made second-lieutenant. He was killed by Indiana, near Heart river, fifteen miles from Fort Rice, while returning from the Yellowstone expedition. He died Oct. 3, 1872, near Heart River. Crosby, Ebenezer, soldier, educator, physician, was born Sept. 30, 1753, in Braintree, Mass. He served through the revolutionary

war

surgeon of General Washington's guards; and was one of the original members of the society of the Cincinnati. He died July 16, 1788". Crosby, Enoch, patriot, was bom Jan. 4, 1750, in Harwich, Mass. The story of his secret-service life, which was thought to be incorporated in Cooper's Spy, was dramatized; and Mr. Crosby waa on one occasion present at a representation of the play in New York City; and as the hero received the as

plaudits of the multitude. He died June 20, 1835, in Brewster, N.Y. Crosby, Ernest Howard, lawyer, legislator, reformer, author, was bom Nov. 4, 1856, in New York City. In 1878-89 he was in law practice in New York City; and was a member of the New York state assembly in 1887-91. In 1889 he was appointed judge of the international court at Alexandria, Egypt. In 1894 he waa one of the founders and first president of the Social reform club. He waa the author of Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable; and War Echoes. He died in

1906 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Crosby, Mrs. Frances Jane, hymn writer, author, was born March 24, 1820, in South East, N.Y. In 1858 she married Alexander Vanalstyne, a teacher of music in New York City, and blind, like herself. The best known of her hymns are Safe in the Arms of Jesus

Pass

Me

Not,

Gentle Savior; Jesus

is Call-

Rescue the Perishing; Blessed Assurance; Saved by Grace; Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross and I Am Thine, Lord. She was the author of The Blind Girl, and Other Poems; Monterey; Pilgrim Fathers; and A ing;



Wreath

of Columbia's Flowers.

Crosby,

Francis

Marion, lawyer,

was born Nov. 13, He was educated

jurist,

1830, in Wilmington, Vt. in the public schools of his native state; and at the Mount Caesar seminary of Swanzey, N.H. He has attained prominence at the bar; and in 1855-56 was a representative in the Vermont state legislature. In 1860-61 he waa probate judge for Dakota county, Minn. and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. Since 1872 he has been judge of the district court for the first judicial district of Minnesota, and ia now serving his term ending in 1909 and resides in Hastings, Minn.

Crosby, Henry Clay, clergyman, educator, college president, was born in 1853 in Longtown, S.C. He received his primary education in private schools and in Sherley's institute, S.C; and attended the Shaw university, and the Leonard medical college of Raleigh, N.C. For four years he was a justice of the peace of Vance county, N.C; in 1879-87 was principal of the Garfield graded schools of Raleigh, N.C; and for ten years

was president of the Plymouth state normal school of North Carolina. He was licensed to preach in 1887,and was ordained a clergy-

man

of the baptist church in 1892. Nov. 29, 1897, in Raleigh, N.C.

He

died

civil engineer, was born 1838, in Atkinson, Maine. Since 1870 he has practiced as a civil engineer in

Crosby, Horace,

June

6,

New

Rochelle and vicinity. For fifteen yearB he was a member of the board of education of New Rochelle; and for two terms its president. In 1893-1906 he was president of

the New Rochelle public library. For two years he was chief engineer to the original sewer commission of New Rochelle; and in 1902-06 was city engineer. Crosby, Howard, clergyman, author, was 27, 1826, in New York. He was a presbyterian clergyman; and chancellor ot the university of New York City in 1870-81. He was the author of The Christian Preacher; Notes on the New Testament; Life of Jesus; Christ and Science; At the Lord's Table; Sermons; Lands of the Moslem; (Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Notes; Bible Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View of the Jewish Church; The Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the Church; Thoughts on the Pentateuch; and Commentary on the New Testament. He died March 29, 1891, in New York City.

born Feb.

Crosby, James

bom March

Ott,

lawyer,

jurist,

was

New York

City. He was educated at the academy of Seneca, Falls; and at Fredonia academy. For fortysix years he practiced law in Iowa, retiring in 1900. He is a member of the state Ameri22, 1828, in

can and international bar associations; and in 1904 was a delegate to the universal congress of lawyers and jurists at St. Louis, Mo. In 1889 he was president of the Iowa electoral college; in 1893 was president of the Iowa Columbian commission; and in 1899 was president of the Iowa state bar association. He has traveled extensively; and visited world's fairs in Europe in 1870, 1889 and 1900. He is a member of the American political science association; and a member of the American society of international law.

Crosby, John Crawford, lawyer, state senwas bom June 15, 1859, He was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatiyes in 1885-86. In 1887 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts senate. In 1891-93 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. In ator, congressman, in Sheffield, Mass.