USA > New Jersey > Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume IV > Part 1
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76
. சிட்ஸ்
I
Gc 974.9 L51g v.4 1136382
M. A)
- GENEALCCY COLLECTION
1
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 02246 7184
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016
https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo04leef_0
Lewn Distrital Pub. Co
I.A Stuin E Orange, NJ.
GENEALOGICAL
AND
MEMORIAL HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE FOUNDING OF A NATION
COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
FRANCIS BAZLEY LEE
VOLUME IV
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
-1910
COPYRIGHT 1910 BY LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
1136382
CROSBY This surname is very ancient, and is derived from two Eng- lish words, Cross and By (bury. burgh or borough, meaning the town of the cross. We find the name from the very begin- ning of the use of surnames in England. In I204 Ode de Crosseby was constable of Titch- all, Yorkshire, and as early as 1220 we find Simon de Crosseby in Lancashire. The name Simon has continued in frequent use among his descendants to the present day, and he is un- doubtedly progenitor of the American family. "The coat-of-arms of the Crosbys is per chev- ron sable and argent three goats pass, counter- charged."
-
(I) Simon Crosby, immigrant ancestor of Henry Barrett Crosby, of Paterson, New Jer- sey, was born in England, in 1608. He was a husbandman. He embarked from London for New England in May, 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," Edward Payne, master. He was twenty-six years of age, his wife, Ann, twenty- five, and their son, Thomas ( later Rev. Thomas ), eight months old. Simon Crosby and family landed at Boston and settled at Cambridge, then known as Cambridge Farms, where he became a proprietor in November, 1635, was admit- ted a freeman March 3, 1636, and November 7, of same year was elected a selectman and served as such again in 1638, which fact proved he was a man who possessed strong endow- ments of personal character. He had several grants of land in Cambridge, and is called a yeoman in the deeds. His house stood at the corner of Brattle street and Brattle square, and later became known as the Brattle place, hav- ing passed into the hands of Rev. William Brattle. Simon Crosby died in 1639, at the early age of thirty. His widow, left with her three small children, married, in 1646, Rev. William Thompson, of Braintree, but was again left a widow a few years later, and died Octo- ber 8, 1675. Mr. Thompson was the first min- ister of the church at Braintree ; he was a grad- uate of Oxford and a man of distinction. He prepared his son William, and his stepson Thomas Crosby for college, and they both enter- ed Harvard and graduated in the class of 1653. Children of Simon and Ann Crosby : Thomas, born in England, 1634; Simon, born August, 1637, both in Cambridge; and Joseph, Febru- ary, 1639.
(II) Rev. Thomas Crosby, son of Simon Crosby, was born in England, 1634, and was undoubtedly named after his grandfather, as was the custom in those days, or for his ma- ternal grandfather. When he graduated from Harvard in 1653, like most of the graduates he became a clergyman. He succeeded Rev. John Mayo, of Harwich, Massachusetts ( now Brain- tree ), who was called to settle over the Second Church at Boston. This necessitated Rev. Thomas Crosby settling at Harwich, where he went in 1655, then unmarried. His salary was only five pounds per annum. His ministry terminated at Harwich and Eastham in 1670, for what cause is not stated. He was, however, in good repute throughout the colony. He was an excellent religious teacher, of excellent char- acter, and after his pastorate ended took up a business career and became a successful man of affairs. He removed to Boston, where he died December, 1702. Nearly all by the name of Crosby in Cape Cod are his descendants. His widow, Sarah, married (second) John Miller, whose wife, Margaret Winslow, had died in Boston. Rev. Thomas Crosby married, about 1662, Sarah Children, all born at Harwich, Massachusetts: I. Thomas, dea- con, born April 7, 1663 ; died 1731. 2. Simon, born July 3, 1665 : died January 19, 1718; mar- ried, August 27, 1691, Mary Nickerson. 3. Sarah, born March 24, 1667. 4. Joseph, men- tioned below. 5. John, born December 4, 1670 : died May 25, 1714. 6. Thomas, twin with John, died February, 1671. 7. William, born March, 1673; married, April 26, 1711, Mercy Hinckley. 8. Ebenezer, born March 28, 1675. 9-10-II. Mercy, Increase and Ann, triplets, born April 15, 1678. 12. Eleazer, born March 30, I680.
(III) Joseph, son of Rev. Thomas Crosby (named for his uncle, Joseph Crosby), was born at Harwich, Massachusetts, January 27, 1669 : died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, May 30, 1725. After his marriage to Mehitable Miller they removed to Yarmouth, where he became a proprietor. In the summer of 1712 he was among the many who were assigned lands, this being from a decision made Febru- ary, 171I, of the proprietors of the common lands agreeing that one-third of the undivided tracts be laid out to the undivided proprietors
(1291)
I292
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
according to their interests therein for planting lots, and one-third more for wood lots. Of the whole number of three thousand one hun- dred and eighteen shares Joseph Crosby had twenty-six and a half, which was a maximum. He became a planter or yeoman. He was a member in full communion of the First Church there. He and his wife were buried in the First church burial-ground at Yarmouth. He married, February 16, 1692-93, Mehitable Miller, daugh- ter of John Miller. Child, Theophilus, men- tioned below.
(IV) Theophilus, son of Joseph Crosby, was born at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 31, 1693. Like his father, he became a planter, and followed fishing, as was the cus- tom in those days. He inherited much of his father's property and lands. In the fire before October, 1827, ninety-three volumes of Barn- stable county records of deeds were destroyed, only one volume being saved, and many of the deeds prior to 1700 were destroyed, making it difficult to trace the Crosby properties in and around Yarmouth. In one record the writer finds Theophilus Crosby a cordwainer, but whether he followed this trade is not known. He married, February 14, 1722-23, Thankful Winslow, of Harwich, Massachusetts. Chil- dren : Simon, born 1724; William, 1726; Eben- ezer, 1728; Judah, 1730; Isaac, 1731 ; Richard, 1732; Mehitable, 1734; Sarah, 1736; Miller, mentioned below.
(V) Miller, son of Theophilus Crosby, was born at Harwich, Massachusetts ( Brewster), 1738. He was named after his grandmother, Mehitable (Miller) Crosby. He was reared after Puritan ideas, gaining his education dur- ing the winter months, and like most of the Crosbys was during his earlier days engaged during the summer months in fishing or coast- wise trade, which he later followed. He gained a competency for those times, and at his death left his widow in comfortable circumstances. In 1793, when she was fifty-five years of age, shortly after the death of her husband, she im- migrated with her family to Brattleboro, Ver- mont, from the "Cape." "She used to say it was to keep her boys from going to sea, as she lost her son Joseph by drowning at sea." She had every inducement to go to Brattleboro, as her twin brother, Isaac Crosby, had been set- tled there for several years on a large farm and doing well. He purchased for his sister an ad- joining farm of forty acres ( she had the money to pay for it ), where she and her family settled, the homesteads being not far apart. She was a most capable and energetic woman, able to take
up the cares and burdens of the new home. Here she spent her life, and with the aid of her three sons, who lived at home during their early manhood days, made the place yield a handsome living. She was an active woman up to within a few years of her death ; she died of old age while sitting in her chair, at the age of ninety-two. She followed the precepts of the Holy Word, and trained her children in the paths of righteousness, and it is said she was a member of the Brattleboro church. Miller Crosby married, 1769, Rebecca Crosby, born 1744, died November 9, 1836, daughter of Ele- azer Jr. and Lydia (Crosby), the former of whom was a grandson of Rev. Thomas Cros- by. Children: I. Tabitha, born January 14, 1771 ; married Edward Ripley ; moved to Deer- field, Massachusetts, where she died. 2. Joseph, born October 12, 1772; lost at sea. 3. Rebecca, born May 30, 1775 ; married her cousin, Isaac ; lived at Durmston, Vermont. 4. Wat- son, born November 7, 1776; mentioned below. 5. Keziah, born April 15, 1779; married Rich- ard Crosby, her cousin ; moving to Derby, Can- ada ; she was noted as a singer. 6. Isaac, born March 22, 1781 ; married Lucy Barrett ; moved to Jamestown, New York. 7. Elkanah, born April 15, 1785 ; died September 17, 1831 ; mar- ried, 1807, Flavia Harris; moved to Catskill, New York; children: Emery, born July 15, 1808; William Harris, February 5, 1810; Suel, July 22, 1812; Anna, June 25, 1815 ; Mary, July 17, 1818; Ann Eliza, May 14, 1821 ; Elizabeth, April 30, 1824; Roswell, August 30, 1827.
(VI) Watson, son of Miller Crosby, was born at Harwich, Massachusetts, November 7, 1776; died at Brattleboro, Vermont. At the age of seventeen years he accompanied his widowed mother and brothers and sisters to Brattleboro, Vermont, where they settled, clear- ing the land. Watson, being the eldest son, much of the responsibility of the settling of the pioneer home devolved on him. With the assistance of his most capable and energetic mother the new home was established, land cleared and crops planted. Here in this Ver- mont town he spent his life. In early man- hood he learned the trade of shoemaker which, with farming, he followed the greater part of his life. At the death of his mother in 1836 the farm came to Watson. Owing to his hav- ing endorsed a note for a neighbor and which when due he had to assume, he lost his entire property, and removed to the village of West Brattleboro, where he settled with his family on a small farm in the near neighborhood of the grandparents of President Rutherford B.
I293
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Hayes, having purchased the farm from sav- ings laid by. Here he thrived and prospered, raised a large family, pursued farming on a small scale, and followed his trade of shoe- maker. He died here at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He was the soul of honor in all his transactions, and was known for his wit and as a joker. While of medium build he was much of an athlete, and it is said to the age of seventy years could jump over the back of an ordinary chair. He and his wife, Desiah, were consistent and faithful members of the Brattleboro Congregational Church. He was an old line Whig and influential in his com- munity. He married, at Hawley, Massachu- setts, November 28, 1804, Desiah Bangs, born at Hawley, December 9, 1785, daughter of Deacon Joseph Bangs. Children: I. Olive, born August 29, 1805 ; died July 10, 1892 ; mar- ried, February 6, 1830, John Stearns Robinson, born March 1, 1804, died November 23, 1860; children: i. John Stearns, born October 5, 1831, died January 17, 1834; ii. Ann Frances, born November 5, 1834, died July 8, 1890, married, September 15, 1858, James Hervey Gridley; iii. Charles Edwin, born November 23, 1836, died November 27, 1883, married, September, 1868, Elizabeth ( Francisco) Rogers (widow), children : a. William, born Septem- ber, 1869, died January 12, 1896, b. Frances O., February 14, 1871, married, June 26, 1895, William Rufus Kennedy, and has one child, Frances Gridley Kennedy, born November 16, 1897, c. Harry, January 17, 1831 ; iv. Abigail Olive, born August 31, 1839, died September 23, 1841 ; v. Mary Olivia, born May 25, 1842, died March 10, 1845; vi. Elizabeth Perry, born March II, 1845, died June 26, 1851. 2. Ruth Hall, born May 10, 1807; died May 30, 1885; married, January 21, 1830, Charles Russell Miller, born March 14, 1807, died August 4, 1866; children: i. Charles Crosby, born June 23, 1831, married, March 23, 1859, Margaret Ann Trimble, children: a. Clara Eliza, born November 20, 1860, b. Ada Ruth, June 7, 1862, c. Lizzie Spayth, August 30, 1867, d. Florence Trimble, May 13, 1871, e. Margaret Ann, Feb- ruary 6, 1873, f. Charles Russell Jr., October 3, 1874; ii. Rebecca, born November 8, 1833, died April 12, 1845; iii. Sarah Bangs, born April 1, 1837, married, February 11, 1863. Jo- siah E. Morehouse, children: a. Julia Miller, born April 12, 1864, died July 16, 1864, b. Alice Ruth, August 19, 1866, died March 29, 1867, c. Laura Crosby, June 2, 1869, died De- cember 20, 1871; iv. Julia Hayes, born Sep- tember 23, 1839, married, January 2, 1860,
Oscar W. Vallette, children: a. Jennie Maria, born December 24, 1865, b. Sarah Miller, Oc- tober 4, 1867, c. James, March 9, 1877. 3. Miranda, born April II, 1809; died March 9, 1845. 4. Abigail Cobb, born April 16, 1811; died March 24, 1897; married, November 5, 1837, Dr. Arms Dickerman Putnam, born Jan- uary II, 1816 ; children : i. Julius Kidder, born August 19, 1840, died February 17, 1845 ; ii. Her- bert Dickerman, born December 21, 1843, died March 25, 1864; iii. Joseph Bangs Crosby, born December 28, 1846, died March 24, 1879. 5. Joseph Bangs, born April 13, 1813; died October 1, 1865; married, January 31, 1845, Almira S. Robinson. 6. Henry Barrett, born April 13, 1815 ; mentioned below. 7. Jeremiah Mayo, born February 8, 1817; died May 19, 1865; moved from Brattleboro, Vermont, to Norwalk, Ohio ; engaged in hardware business ; married, September 15, 1840, Laura Ann Hol- land, born May 27, 1819; children: i. Henry Watson, born August 26, 1841 died in Union army, May 28, 1854, was killed at the battle of Resaca, Georgia; ii. Howard H., born March 21, 1846, died August 7, 1846; iii. Laura Mi- randa, born March 19, 1848, died September 15, 1887, married, June 25, 1879, Walter E. Terhune, children: a. Maria C., born May 30, 1880, died October 1, 1880, b. Louise C., born May 10, 1883; iv. Charles Mayo, born March 5, 1851; v. Abby Frances, born July 4, 1853, married, October 13, 1880, William J. Walding, children: a. Florence, born Septem- ber 12, 1881, b. Genevieve, born October 19, 1886; vi. Frederick Bangs, born January 28, 1858, at Norwalk, Ohio, attended Norwalk public school until twelve years of age, then moved to Toledo, Ohio, and attended school there, finishing in the grammar grade, after which he attended Eastman's Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, New York, he then work- ed in a drug store, afterwards was traveling salesman for a wholesale hardware concern in Toledo for ten years, and since then has travel- ed for the Toledo Metal Wheel Company, makers of children's vehicles, serving as secre- tary of this concern, married, at Niles, Michi- gan, April 30, 1895, Angeline Holley, born in Niles, September 21, 1865, daughter of Joseph Sweetman and Harriet (Holley) Bacon, the former a lawyer, children: Laura Holley, born May 5, 1899, Frederick Bacon, born April 8, 1903. 8. Charles Howard, born March 28, 1819 : married, November 8, 1849, Mary L. Hart ; child, Ida Aline, born October 6, 1853, married (first) George Warren Allen, January 12, 1875, children : Warren Crosby Allen, born July 21,
I294
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
1877 ; Maud Pauline, born March 29, 1881, Ida Aline married (second) Lowell Goodwin, De- cember 24, 1897. 9. Frances Hayes, born I'eb- ruary 5, 1824 ; died September 12, 1864; mar- ried, April 25, 1854, Stanford Russell Clark. IO. Daughter, born February 20, 1826; died February 23, 1826.
(VII) Henry Barrett, son of Watson Cros- by, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, April 13, 1815. His early years were spent on the paternal farm at Brattleboro, gaining a meagre education. At the age of ten years he began to earn his living by working for a neighboring farmer, Deacon Russell Hayes, grandfather of President Rutherford B. Hayes. When he was twelve years old the family removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, and he obtained employment in a cotton factory at Chicopee Falls, where he remained two years. He then entered the establishment of Ames Bros. at Springfield, with the intention of learning the paper making trade, but owing to the introduc- tion of machinery was soon thrown out of work. This caused him to return temporarily to farming. He went to Woonsocket Falls. Rhode Island, and served a six months appren- ticeship in a machine shop, subsequently being employed for eight months by a loom manu- facturer in the same village. His next em- ployment was as a workman on flyers for spinning frames in a machine shop at Chicopee Falls, where he remained a year. In June, 1834, he revisited his home at Brattleboro, whither the family had returned. Having de- voted his entire boyhood to self-supporting labor, naturally he had not enjoyed much op- portunity for learning. He now entered the Brattleboro Academy, but the necessity of earn- ing his living did not admit of any prolonged continuance there. At the end of six months le set forth to again engage in remunerative employment. Before leaving home he made an agreement with his father to pay him two hundred and twenty dollars for the unexpired term of his minority, giving his note for that amount, and this obligation he discharged with interest in due time. Obtaining work at Ware, Massachusetts, in the machine shops of the Hampshire Manufacturing Company, he be- came one of the contractors for the construction of flyers for that company's new cotton mill. In 1836 he made a trip to Central New York, of which the principal incident was a danger- ous illness that left him almost stripped of financial resources. After his recovery he was in charge of the construction of machinery at
Poughkeepsie, New York, until the panic of 1837.
Through the influence of George Lawton, under whom he had worked in the machine shop at Ware, Mr. Crosby was induced to come to Paterson, New Jersey, and apply for em- ployment to Samuel Colt, who at that time was embarking in the manufacture of revolving guns and pistols under his celebrated patent. He arrived in Paterson, April 23, 1837, and on the 26th of that month began work for Mr. Colt in the old gun mill. In this connection he took the contract of making certain portions of the lock work for guns. But though the enterprise looked bright at the start, he was doomed to disappointment and once more he was obliged to look for a field for his unre- warded energies. His only compensation from the Colt Company was a number of guns, which he finally sold, and with the proceeds engaged in the grocery trade, and in May, 1843, opened his store on Main street. From the first he rigidly excluded liquors from his merchandise. He enjoyed substantial success and rapidly advanced to a position of recog- nized prominence in the mercantile community of Paterson. At the end of two years his in- creasing trade obliged him to remove to more commodious quarters, and in 1855 he opened his fine store on Main street. From that time until his retirement from active life, a period of more than thirty years, Mr. Crosby's estab- lishment transacted a volume of business not equalled by that of any other mercantile con- cern in Paterson or Passaic counties, and was also known as one of the foremost of its kind in the state of New Jersey. In 1867 he ad- mitted his son, J. Henry Crosby, into partner- ship, under the firm name of H. B. Crosby & Son. He withdrew from the active manage- ment, April 2, 1888, when the firm of Crosby, Ackerman & Van Gieson was organized.
Mr. Crosby is the father of the splendid system of public parks in Paterson, resulting from his individual efforts, and he has a rec- ord of long and honorable service as president of the board of park commissioners. He was also one of the founders of the beautiful Cedar Lawn cemetery, and since 1876 has been presi- dent of the Cemetery Association. He has been conspicuously connected for many years with the First National Bank and the Pater- son Savings Institution, of which he was vice- president for a number of years, and was one of the principal organizers of the Paterson Board of Trade. He was also a member of the Produce Exchange of New York City and
I295
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Chamber of Commerce of New York. Mr. Crosby took a leading part in the organization of the First Baptist Church, of which he has been a member since its dedication over forty years ago. In his political affiliations he has always been a staunch Republican. He was one of the delegates from New Jersey to the famous Chicago convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln to the presidency.
He married (first) at Paterson, February 27, 1840, Pauline Fairfield Hathorn, born at Smithville, New Jersey, September 3, 1821, died at Paterson, New Jersey, January 23, 1872, daughter of Thomas W. and Anna (Hinch- man) Hathorn, also granddaughter of General John Hathorn, of Washington's staff, also member of second and fourth congresses. Chil- dren: I. Josephine Amelia, born January 8, 1842; died December 31, 1896 ; married, June 14, 1865, Samuel Coit Morgan Allen ; children : i. Pauline Crosby, born August 14, 1866, mar- ried, October 10, 1888, Alexander Murray, and had Alexander, born July 13, 1889, class of 1912, Yale ; ii. Maud Josephine, born April 22, 1870; iii. Henry Crosby, born March 13, 1872 (see Allen sketch) ; iv. Samuel Morgan, born October 5, 1874, married, April, 1899, Catherine Orr, and had Samuel Coit Morgan and Margaret Brewster ; he is engaged at min- ing in San Juan district, Colorado; v. Elisha Morgan, deceased. 2. John Henry, born Sep- tember 23, 1844; see following sketch. 3. Annie Louise, born July 14, 1847 ; married, February 9, 1870, Isaac Newton Jr., born Geneva, Switzerland, October 17, 1847; chil- dren : i. Josephine Crosby, born September 28, 1871 ; ii. George Hewett, born June 24, 1873 ; iii. Walter Russell, born April 2, 1875; iv. Henry Crosby, born June 29, 1877 ; v. Samuel Allen, born May 19, 1882, died May 20, 1882. 4. Isabella Stewart, born July 4, 1851 ; died April 2, 1887. Pauline Fairfield (Hathorn ) Crosby died January 23, 1872. He married (second) at Bridgeport, Connecticut, Decem- ber 6, 1875, Harriet Eliza Rogers, born Janu- ary 8, 1839, daughter of Noah and Catherine Rebecca (Clark) Rogers, of Cornwall, Con- necticut. Noah Rogers was a farmer and a public-spirited citizen. Harriet Eliza (Rogers) Crosby was a descendant of the Rev. John Rogers and other Puritan ancestors on her father's side and from prominent Huguenot stock on her mother's side. Children of sec- ond marriage: 5. Henry Barrett Jr., born September 8, 1876; an architect at Pater- son, New Jersey ; married, August 18, 1904, Mabel Marion, born July 10, 1880, daughter
of Charles and Marion ( Kemp) Barmore. 6. Florence Lyon, born January 17, 1879.
(VIII) John Henry Crosby, eldest son of Henry Barrett and Pauline Fairfield ( Hathorn ) Crosby, was born at Paterson, New Jersey, September 23, 1844. When a young boy he first attended the private school kept by Polly Hopkins on Broadway, near the present Bap- tist church, and later Elizabeth Cox's school nearby, supplemented by a short course in Master Hopper's school on Park street. His first public school was the old red school in Hamilton avenue, then Division street, going from there to what was the east ward high school, which was destroyed by the recent big fire. At the age of sixteen years he began the study of bookkeeping with William Evans for a year, subsequently entering the grammar school of the New York University, where he remained one year ; later he was two years in the preparatory school of Russell's Military Academy at New Haven. Deciding on a mer- cantile life he returned to Paterson and enter- ed his father's employ as clerk and bookkeeper, remaining in this position until 1867, when he was admitted a partner under the firm name of H. B. Crosby & Son. It was a large, pros- perous wholesale grocery business, patronized by the first families of Paterson. April 2, 1888, the senior member withdrew from the firm, and a new firm of Crosby, Ackerman & Van Gieson was founded. In 1893 Mr. Cros- by disposed of his interests to the new firm and retired from active business. Mr. Crosby be- came bookkeeper for the Passaic Ice Company, severing his connection with that firm on Jan- uary 1, 1900. He is now engaged in special accounting work, as an expert, for many of the firms of Paterson and nearby towns. In 1870 Mr. Crosby purchased his present resi- dence on Broadway. He and his family attend the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, of Paterson, of which his family are all members. In political preferment Mr. Crosby is a Republican of the staunch type. He is a member of the New York Produce Exchange. He was for many years a member of Eagle Hook and Ladder Company, No. I, Paterson Fire Department, then known as the "kid glove" company. Fraternally Mr. Crosby has been prominent in the Masonic order. He was made a member of Joppa Lodge. No. 29, Free and Accepted Masons, November 1, 1871 ; was exalted in Cataract Chapter, No. 10, Royal Arch Masons, at Paterson ; was a charter mem- ber of Adelphi Chapter, No. 33, and served that body as excellent king ; secured his Cryptic
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.