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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 1894-95 he was

mayor

of Pittsfield, Mass.; collector.

and in 1899-1900 was city

Crosby, John Schuyler, soldier, diplomat, governor, was bom Sept. 19, 1839, in Albany county, N.Y. He was appointed a first lieutenant in the first United States artillery in 1861; was lieutenant-colonel on General Sheridan's staff; in 1864 was colonel in the New York seventh artillery;

and was bre-

vetted four times for gallantry in the field He received a lifesaving medal of the first

by

class,

congress,

for

'

act of heroic

daring and saving life during the foundering of the yacht Mohawk in 1876. In 187682 he was United States consul at Florence, Italy; and in 1882-83 was governor of Montana. In 1882-84 he was first assistant postmaster general; and in 1890-93 waa school commissioner in

New York

Nathan, lawyer,

Crosby,

City.

jurist,

author,

was born Feb.

12, 1798, in Sandwich, N.H. he purchased for the Lowell manufacturing corporations the great lakes of New Hampshire, which now form the reservoirs of water-power for that city. He waa the author of First Half Century of Dartmouth College. He died Feb. 9, 1885, in Lowell, Mass.

In

1845-46

Crosby, Oscar Terry, electrical engineer, was born April 21, 1861, in Ponchatoula, La. In 1887 he resigned from the United States army as first lieutenant of engineers. He is president of the First telharmonic company of Washington, D.C. He has explored portions of Abyssinia, Soudan, Turkestan and Tibet. He is the author of Tibet and Turkestan. explorer, author,

Crosby, Peirce, naval officer, Jan. 16, 1824, near Chester, Pa. with distinction in the Mexican

wars;

was bom He served and

civil

commanded South Atlantic station, was made rear-admiral and was then

1882; placed on the retired

list.

He

died June 15,

1899, in Washington, D.C. Ci^osby, Stephen Moody, soldier, lawyer, banker, statesman, was born Aug. 14, 1827, in Salisbury, Mass. He served through the civil war, reaching the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1869 and was state senator in 1870-71. Since 1883 he has been president of the Massachusetts loan and trust company of Boston, Mass.

Crosby,

Thomas

Russell, educator, clergyman, was bom Oct. 22, 1816, in Gilmanton, N.H. In 1861 he was a surgeon in the civil war. In 1870 he was a professor of animal and vegetable physiology in the state agricultural college at Hanover, N.H. He died March 1, 1872, in Hanover, Mass.

Crosby,

15!)

William Bedlow, philanthropist,

1786, in New ork of 1812 he served as an aide-de-camp on the staflf of MajorGeneral Ebenezer Stevens of the New York militia with the rank of colonel. He died March 18, 1865, in New York City. Crosby, William George, governor, author, was born in 1806 in Belfast, Maine. He practiced law in Belfast, Maine; and was the thirteenth governor of Maine in 1853-55. He was the author of Poetical Illustrations of the AthenEBum Gallery. He died in 1881 in Belfast, Maine. Crosby, William Otis, educator, author, was born Jan. 14, 1850, in Decatur, Ohio. He is a professor of geology in the Massachusetts institute of technology. He is the author of Common Minerals and Rocks; Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts; Dynamical and Structural Geology; and Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals. Crosman, Alexander Foster, mariner, naval officer, was bom June 11, 1838, in St. Louis,

was born Feb. During the war

soldier,

City.

7,

Mo. He was commissioned commander in 1870; was ordered to the command of the isthmus surveying expedition in 1872; and was drowned in the harbor of Greytown. At the time of his death he was preparing a book on seamanship. He died April 12, 1872, in Greytown, Nicaragua. Crosman, George Hampton, soldier, waa born in November, 1798,in Taunton, Mass. He served in the Black Hawk war of 1832; in the Florida war of 1836-37, and was promoted to captain. He was chief quartermaster in the military occupation of Texas in 184546, and received the brevet of major. In 1864-66 he was occupied in preparing for Manual for the Quartermaster's Department. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of the United States army for his services during the civil war. He died May 28, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa. Cross, Andrew Jay, optometrist, inventor, author, was bom April 30, 1855, in Antwerp, N.Y. He was among the first opticians of America to become thoroughly acquainted with the principles of opthometry; and is known as the father of the Optical society of publication a

New York book

was president the author of the text System of Ocular Ski-

City, of which he

in 1897-1900.

entitled

He

A

is

ametry. Cross, Arthur Lyon, educator, author, was born Nov. 14, 1873, in Portland, Maine. Since 1899 he has been instructor in history at the university of Michigan. He is the author of the Anglican Episcopate; and the American Colonies. Cross, Charles

Robert, educator, author, 1868, in Troy, N.Y. He of physics and director or the Rogers laboratory in the Massachusetts institute of technology. He is the author of various scientific papers, particularly on acoustics and telephony.

was born March 29, is Thayer professor