This is a cenotaph. View actual burial and family links at Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Middlesex county, Massachusetts.
Crosby, Nathan, lawyer, b. in Sandwich, N.H., 12 Feb., 1798; d. in Lowell, Mass., 9 Feb., 1885, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1820, and practiced his profession in Gilmanton, N.H., Salisbury, Newburyport, and Lowell, Mass. In 1845-'6 he purchased for the Lowell manufacturing corporations the great lakes of New Hampshire, which now form the reservoirs of water-power for that city. He was commissioned justice of Lowell police court, 19 May, 1846, and held the office till his death. He was the author of "First half-Century of Dartmouth College," and eulogies on Tappan Wentworth, and Judge S.S. Wilde, of the Massachusetts supreme court, and many lectures and essays on historical and philanthropic subjects. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1879.
m1 Rebecca Marquand Moody, daughter of Stephen Moody and Francis Coffin
Children:
- Frances Coffin Crosby (1825-) m Henry Austin Martin (1824-1888)
- Stephen Moody Crosby (1827-) m Annie E Hayden
- Rebecca Marquand Crosby (1829-1830)
- Marie Stocker Crosby (1833-) m Alexander McD Lyon (1833-1869)
- John Proudfit Crosby (1835-1841)
- Ellen Grant Crosy (1837-) m Nicholas W Norcross
- Edward Warren Crosby (1839-1840)
- Susan Coffin Crosby (1841-) m Charles Francis
m2 Matilda Pickens, daughter of James Pickens and Charity Mackie, widow of Dr Joseph W Fearing
Source:
- A Crosby family: Josiah Crosby, Sarah Fitch and their descendants By Nathan Crosby (1877)
- Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company (1887)
Crosby, Nathan, lawyer, b. in Sandwich, N.H., 12 Feb., 1798; d. in Lowell, Mass., 9 Feb., 1885, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1820, and practiced his profession in Gilmanton, N.H., Salisbury, Newburyport, and Lowell, Mass. In 1845-'6 he purchased for the Lowell manufacturing corporations the great lakes of New Hampshire, which now form the reservoirs of water-power for that city. He was commissioned justice of Lowell police court, 19 May, 1846, and held the office till his death. He was the author of "First half-Century of Dartmouth College," and eulogies on Tappan Wentworth, and Judge S.S. Wilde, of the Massachusetts supreme court, and many lectures and essays on historical and philanthropic subjects. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1879.
m1 Rebecca Marquand Moody, daughter of Stephen Moody and Francis Coffin
Children:
- Frances Coffin Crosby (1825-) m Henry Austin Martin (1824-1888)
- Stephen Moody Crosby (1827-) m Annie E Hayden
- Rebecca Marquand Crosby (1829-1830)
- Marie Stocker Crosby (1833-) m Alexander McD Lyon (1833-1869)
- John Proudfit Crosby (1835-1841)
- Ellen Grant Crosy (1837-) m Nicholas W Norcross
- Edward Warren Crosby (1839-1840)
- Susan Coffin Crosby (1841-) m Charles Francis
m2 Matilda Pickens, daughter of James Pickens and Charity Mackie, widow of Dr Joseph W Fearing
Source:
- A Crosby family: Josiah Crosby, Sarah Fitch and their descendants By Nathan Crosby (1877)
- Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company (1887)
This is a cenotaph. View actual burial and family links at Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Middlesex county, Massachusetts.
Crosby, Nathan, lawyer, b. in Sandwich, N.H., 12 Feb., 1798; d. in Lowell, Mass., 9 Feb., 1885, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1820, and practiced his profession in Gilmanton, N.H., Salisbury, Newburyport, and Lowell, Mass. In 1845-'6 he purchased for the Lowell manufacturing corporations the great lakes of New Hampshire, which now form the reservoirs of water-power for that city. He was commissioned justice of Lowell police court, 19 May, 1846, and held the office till his death. He was the author of "First half-Century of Dartmouth College," and eulogies on Tappan Wentworth, and Judge S.S. Wilde, of the Massachusetts supreme court, and many lectures and essays on historical and philanthropic subjects. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1879.
m1 Rebecca Marquand Moody, daughter of Stephen Moody and Francis Coffin
Children:
- Frances Coffin Crosby (1825-) m Henry Austin Martin (1824-1888)
- Stephen Moody Crosby (1827-) m Annie E Hayden
- Rebecca Marquand Crosby (1829-1830)
- Marie Stocker Crosby (1833-) m Alexander McD Lyon (1833-1869)
- John Proudfit Crosby (1835-1841)
- Ellen Grant Crosy (1837-) m Nicholas W Norcross
- Edward Warren Crosby (1839-1840)
- Susan Coffin Crosby (1841-) m Charles Francis
m2 Matilda Pickens, daughter of James Pickens and Charity Mackie, widow of Dr Joseph W Fearing
Source:
- A Crosby family: Josiah Crosby, Sarah Fitch and their descendants By Nathan Crosby (1877)
- Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company (1887)
Crosby, Nathan, lawyer, b. in Sandwich, N.H., 12 Feb., 1798; d. in Lowell, Mass., 9 Feb., 1885, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1820, and practiced his profession in Gilmanton, N.H., Salisbury, Newburyport, and Lowell, Mass. In 1845-'6 he purchased for the Lowell manufacturing corporations the great lakes of New Hampshire, which now form the reservoirs of water-power for that city. He was commissioned justice of Lowell police court, 19 May, 1846, and held the office till his death. He was the author of "First half-Century of Dartmouth College," and eulogies on Tappan Wentworth, and Judge S.S. Wilde, of the Massachusetts supreme court, and many lectures and essays on historical and philanthropic subjects. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1879.
m1 Rebecca Marquand Moody, daughter of Stephen Moody and Francis Coffin
Children:
- Frances Coffin Crosby (1825-) m Henry Austin Martin (1824-1888)
- Stephen Moody Crosby (1827-) m Annie E Hayden
- Rebecca Marquand Crosby (1829-1830)
- Marie Stocker Crosby (1833-) m Alexander McD Lyon (1833-1869)
- John Proudfit Crosby (1835-1841)
- Ellen Grant Crosy (1837-) m Nicholas W Norcross
- Edward Warren Crosby (1839-1840)
- Susan Coffin Crosby (1841-) m Charles Francis
m2 Matilda Pickens, daughter of James Pickens and Charity Mackie, widow of Dr Joseph W Fearing
Source:
- A Crosby family: Josiah Crosby, Sarah Fitch and their descendants By Nathan Crosby (1877)
- Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company (1887)
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