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was pastor of the fii>» Presbyterian church. New- Brunswick, N.J.. 1!5G1-<>;J, and resigned his chair at Rutgers in the hitter year to accept the pasto- rate of the Fourth avenue Preshyterian church in New York city, where he reniained until hi.s death. In 1879-80 he was Yale lecturer on preaching. He was an organizer of the Y.M.C.A. in New York city. 18.52, anil its president, 18.");i-o6; chancel- lor of the Univer- sity of the city of New Y'ork, 1870- 81; member of the Bible revision committee, 1872- 80: moderator of the General As- sembly of the Pres- byterian church, 1873; delegate to the Evangelical al- liance, Edinburgh. 1878, and president of the Society for the preven- tion of crime, 1877-91. He took an active part in the People's Municipal league of 1890, and other reform movements, and was widely known a.s a leader in temperance reform. He was mar- ried in 1847 to Margaret E. Givan, and of his sons, Ernest Howard became a lawyer and NichoUvs Evertson a tutor of Greek in Princeton university. He received the degree of A.M. from the University of the city of New Y'ork in 1847; that of D.D.' from Harvard in 1859. and that of LL.D. from Columbia in 1872. He is the author of Lawls of the Moslem (1851); The CEdipus Tyraunns of Sopharles (1852); Xotes on the Xevo Tes- tament (1803);^ Bible Manual (1869); Jesus, His Life and Work, as narrated by the Four Evangelists (1871); The Healthy Christian (1871); Thoughts on the Decalogue (1873); Pulpit Teachings on Great Subjects (1873); TTie Christian Preacher (1879); The True Humanity of Christ (1880); TJie Bible Vieic of the Jori.-I, Cht'rrh (1888); and Sermons (1891). He died in Nf>w York city, March 29, 1891.

CROSBY, John Crawford, representative, wa-s born in Sheffield, Mass., June 15, 1859; son of John and Margaret (Crawford) Crosby, and grandson of John Crosby and of Andrew Craw- ford. He attended the public schools of Pitts- field, was graduated from the law school of Boston university in 1882, and was admitted to the bar of his native county in the same year. He served as a member of the school committee of Pittsfield, lRS.5-91. He was a representative in the Ma.s,sachu.setts legi.slature in 1886 and 1887. and a senator in 1888 and 1889. He was a Demo-

cratic representative in the 52d congress, 1891- 93; and an unsuccessful candidate for the 53d congress. He was first president of the Y'oung men's Democratic club of Massachusetts, and served as sucli until his election to congress in 1S90.

CROSBY, John Schuyler, soldier, was born at Schuyler Manor, near Albany, N.Y., Sept. 19, 1839; son of Clarkson Floyd and Angelica (Schuyler) Crosby; grandson of William B. Crosby, millionaire and philantliropist of New Y'ork city; nephew of the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, and great -grandson of ^Villiam Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence. On his mother's side he descended from the Schuy- lers of the American Revolution. He was a student at the University of the city of New York and left college to make an extended tour of the world covering several years and including South America, Cliina, the East Indies and the Pacific islands. With an exploring expedition he crossed the continent of South America from Santiago, Chili, to Montevideo, Uruguay. On re- turning to the United States he entered the regular army as 2d lieutenant of artillery and served in the army of the Potomac under General McClellan in 1861; in Florida in 1862, and as as- sistant adjutant-general on the staffs of Generals Banks and Canbj' in the department of the Gulf, 1863-65. He carried dispatches through the enemy's country to Admiral Farragut, then on board the Hartford near the mouth of the Red river, for which service he received an autograph letter of thanks from President Lincoln. After the war he was on the Rio Grande during the French occupation of Mexico and served on the staff of General Sheridan for five years as aide- de-camp and adjutant-general. He was in the various expeditions of Sheridan and Custer against the Indians and during his service in the army was brevetted four times for distinguished gallantry in the field. He resigned from the army in 1871 and engaged as a civil engineer in building lighthouses and breakwaters on the coast. By act of congress he was awarded a gold medal for '• extreme and heroic daring " in sav- ing and attempting to save life on the yacht Mohaick in which Commodore Garner and others lost their lives in 1876. He declined to receive the medal until congress had voted a similar one to the only sailor out of a crew of twenty-five on board the yacht, who .stood by him in his at- tempt to save the lives of those on board. Presi- dent Grant appointed him U.S. consul to Flor- ence, Italy, in 1876, and while in Italy he received the thanks of the King, and the decoration of the Crown of Italy, for discovering and securing the arrest of a band of criminals in Tuscany. In 1881 President Arthur apiK>inted him governor