Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30

DIR. Crosby's illness began on March 18,
when he caught heavy cold at Troy,
whittier he had been summoned by the
death of his daughter, Agnes, the wife of
the Rev. DIR. Allen. By Friday, March 90
he was in bed at his home, in this city, with
catarrhal inflammation of the lungs. The
doctors found him suffering from such a
fever that from midnight last Monday until
P. NJ. the next day they feared he would
not last "a hours. He had a second sinking
spell on Friday night, when his lungs were
so clogged by rapidly forming mucus that
strangulation had begun. His condition
was better on Saturday. and when DR..
Rosch left him, at 2:30 o'clock this morn
ing, IL was with increased hope.
AT A. NJ, however, DIR. Crosby had q
faiuting spell. 1t was due to approaching
heart failure. He was revived with diff
Guilty, but by $50 his progress seemed salts
factory to the medical men, and Mrs. Crosby
said to friend that she thought her hus-
band would recover. DR.. Conrad lett Dr.
Crosby at $3.50 this afternoon to return home.
Half an hour later messenger reached him
with the news that DIR. Crosby was dying.
The patients pulse was weak and fuctuat-
ing and clearly indicated a troubled heart,
DR.. Conrad administered hypodermic injec-
tions of camphor and stimulated the patient
with cognac and champagne. But DR..
Crosby sank rapidly and died at $780,
DR.. Howard Crosby was born in New York in
1876. and was graduated from the University
of that city in 1874 He held the Professorship
of Greek III the above institution from 1851 to
1853. and occupied the Greek chair in Rutgers
College during the four following years. He
was ordained to the ministry in 1861 and in 1868
assumed the pastoral charge of the Fourth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York,
which he held up TO the time OF his death. In
1870 he was appointed Chancellor of the Uni
versity of New York.
DR.. Crosby never allowed the keen edge
of his activity to become blunted. and inces-
SAINT work and advancing years do
not seem to have impaired his powers.
Besides many sermons and addresses,
his works include Lands of the
Moslems." "Scholia on the New Testament"
SOCIAL Hints TO Young Christians" Life of
Jesus" Thoughts on the Decalogue," a
school Edition of the Edipus Tyrannus of
Sophocles," commentary on Nehemiah, on
Joshua and on the New Testament bible
Manual" etc. III 1879 he delivered, in the Yale
Divinity School, the Lyman Beecher Course of
Lectures, which were published shortly after
ward His work, 1.-The True Humanity of
Christ" was issued in 1881.
Literature, the ministry ana his university
duties did not, however, absorb DIR. Crosby'S
entire attention. From 1852 to 1856 he was
President of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, and for some years past was Pres
Ident and most prominent member of the
Society for the Prevention of Crime. making a
most resolute fight against illega! liquor SELL
ing. Being a methodical and systematic man.
DR.. Crosby was able to give the same vigorous
attention to every department of his work, not
withstanding the multiplicity of demands upon
his time. As a writer he won considerable dis
tinction, and throughout his lite approved hIn-
self an accomplished scholar, able preacher
earnest Christian and enlightened phianthro-
pist.