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Crosbie, Henry R

jurist. He was an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.

Crosby, Alpheus

educator, author, was born Oct. 13, 1810, in Sandwich, N. H.

He was an educator of Massachusetts who published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; Greek Tables; and First Lessons in Geometry; an edition of Xenophon's Anabasis. He died April 17, 1874, in Salem, Mass.

Crosby, Ebenezer

soldier, educator physician, was born Sept. 30, 1753, in Bintree, Mass. He served through the revolutionary war as surgeon of Gen.

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 born 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 was on one occasion present at a representation of the play in New York city, and, as the hero, received the plaudits of the multitude. He died June 20, 1835, in Brewster, N. Y.

Crosby, John Crawford

lawyer, congressman, was born June 15, 1859, in Sheffield, Mass. In 1885 he was elected a member of the school committee of Pittsfield and served six consecutive years in that office. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1885 and re-elected in 1886. In 1887 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts senate. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Crosby, Josiah

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 24, 1816, in Dover, N. H.

He has practiced law in Dexter since 1845.

In 1856, 1863 and 1865 he was a member of the house of representatives of Maine; and in 1867-68 was a member of the state senate, and in the latter year was president of that body.

Crosby, Nathan

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 12, 1798, in Sandwich, N. H. He was a prominent lawyer and jurist of Lowell, who published First Half Century of Dartmouth College. He died Feb. 9, 1885, in Lowell, Mass.

Crosby, William George

governor, was born in 1806, in Belfast, Maine.

He was governor of Maine from 1853 to 1855. 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; and has published Common Minerals and Rocks; and Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts.

Cross, Charles Robert

educator, author, was born March 29, 1848, in Troy, N. Y. He is a professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the author of Course in Elementary Physics; and Lecture Notes on Mechanics and Optics.

Cross, David W

lawyer, author, was born Nov. 17, 1814, in Pulaski, N. Y. He is a Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a. sportsman; and the author of Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun.

Cross, Edward

jurist, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Arkansas; and was elected a representative in congress from 1839 to 1845.