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.; during 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, North Carolina. He was licensed to preach in 1887 and was ordained a clergyman at the baptist church in 1892. He died Nov. 29, 1897, in Raleigh, N. C.