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CROSBY, HOWARD (18261891) , American preacher and teacher, great-grandson of Judge Joseph Crosby of Massa- chusetts and of Gen. William Floyd of New York
the Declaration of Independence, was born in New York
on the 27th of February 1826. He graduated in 1844 from the University of the City of New York (now New York Univer- sity); became professor of Greek there in 1851, and in 1859 became professor of Greek in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey
the first Presbyterian church. From 187o to 1881 he was chancellor of the University of the City of New York; from 1872 to 1881 was one of the American revisers of the English version of the New Testament; and in 1873 was moderator of the general assembly of the PresbyterianChurch. He took a prominent part in politics, urged excise reform, opposed " total abstinence ," was one of thefounders and was the first president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime, and pleaded for better management of Indian affairs and for inter- national copyright. Among his publications are The Lands of the Moslem (1851), Bible Companion (187o), Jesus: His Life and Works (1871), True Temperance Reform (1879), True Humanity of Christ (18$o), and commentaries on the book of Joshua (1875), Nehemiah (1877) and the New Testament (1885).His son, ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY (18561907), was a social reformer, and was born in New York City on the 4th of November 1856. He graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1876 and at Columbia Law School in 1878; served in the New York Assembly in 18871889, securing the passage of a high-licence bill; in 18891894 was a judge of the Mixed Tribunal at Alexandria, Egypt, resigning upon coming under the influence of Tolstoy; and died in New York City on the 3rd of January 1907. He was the first president (1894) of the Social Reform Club of New York City, and was president in 19001905 of the New York Anti-Imperialist League; was a leader in settlement work
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