Person:Elijah Crosby (2)

History of Ashtabula County, Ohio
Large, Moina W.
Topeka :: Historical Pub. Co.,, 1924,
Rome Township
CHAPTER XXXIV
pages 392-395


Elijah Crosby took a look at the land in 1805 and ordered that some land start to be cleared.

"First settler preserves the history of Rome Township". Doreen Sutliff is a descendant of Elijah Crosby. On 2 August 1806 Elijah Crosby, his wife, and their 8 children arrived in Rome to permanently settle there.

Name: Elijah Crosby
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1800
Event Place: East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Note:
Page: 398
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M32
Affiliate Film Number: 3
GS Film Number: 205620
Digital Folder Number: 004956021
Image Number: 00024



Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRZ-TN6 : accessed 6 October 2017), Elijah Crosby, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 398, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 3; FHL microfilm 205,620.

Name: Elijah Crosby
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1790
Event Place: East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Note:
Page: 449
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M637
Affiliate Film Number: 1
GS Film Number: 0568141
Digital Folder Number: 005157133
Image Number: 00385



Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKK-75H : accessed 6 October 2017), Elijah Crosby, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 449, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 568,141.

Name: Elijah Crosby
Gender: Male
Christening Date:
Christening Place:
Birth Date: 13 May 1764
Birthplace: EAST HADDAM TWP,MIDDLESEX,CONNETICUT
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Levi Crosby
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Ruth
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7450319
System Origin: Connecticut-ODM
GS Film number: unknown
Reference ID:



Citing this Record:
"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74N-ZZZ : 3 December 2014), Elijah Crosby, 13 May 1764; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

1878 original publication date
Mr. Crosby's family
at that time was as follows : Phebe, who married M. C. Wilcox (deceased) ; Lu-
cinda, married John Crowell (deceased) ; Calvin, drowned in Grand river (this
township), August, 1818 ; Lovina, married Daniel Hall (deceased) ; Elial, mar-
ried Mary Way, resides at San Diego, California; Elijah (deceased); Joseph,
lives in Wisconsin ; Levi, married Sarah Leonard, who died in 1846 ; present wife
was M. C. Willey, and their place of residence is on the original location of the
elder Crosby Dwight L., the present county treasurer, is the second son of Levi
Crosby) ; Elijah, Jr., married Elizabeth Chester, resides on farm formerly occu-
pied by Erastus Chester ; Anna (deceased) ; Henry C. (deceased) ; Larissa, mar-
ried John McLaren, of San Diego, California, and resides there at present.

full scan includes portraits of Levi and Mrs. Levi Crosby and G. H. and Mrs. G. H. Crosby and drawing of the residence of Elijah Crosby.

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D wigitt l. crosby.— T he subject

of this sketch descended from a long
line of hardy Yew England ancestors,
inherits their best qualities of mind and heart.

His grandfather, Elijah Crosby, was one of
those pathfinders aaJio blazed a Avay into the
Western wilds of Ohio, and started those
arts of peace which have culminated in her
present prosperity. He Avas the first of his
family to arrive in Ashtabula county, the
date of his coming being August 2, 1806,
and was one of the earliest pioneer settlers of
that county, taking up his abode on a claim
of wild land in Rome township. He was born
in Connecticut of early Hew England auces-


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tors who came from England to Massachusetts
in 1635, their descendants being now very
numerous and scattered all over the Union.
Elijah Crosby married Phoebe Church, also
a native of Connecticut, and they had seven
sons and five daughters. (For mention of
each of the children, see Williams’ History of
Ashtabula County, Ohio, published in 1878.)

Levi Crosby, a son of Elijah and father of
the subject of this sketch, was born in East
Haddam, Middlesex county, Connecticut,
April 2, 1803. He was married in 1832
to Miss Sarah Leonard, a native of War-
ren, Herkimer county, Hew York, and they
had four children: Giles LI., Dwight L.,
Maria J. and Jane E., all of whom are liv-
ing in 1893. Levi Crosby was for many
years successfully engaged in the mercan-
tile and produce business, and at the same
time cultivated a large farm in Home town-
ship, Ashtabula county, where he died in
1883, to the great sorrow of a large circle of
friends.

His son, the subject of this sketch, was
born on the home farm in Home township,
November 21, 1836. He remained on the
farm until eighteen years of age, and received
his education in the public schools of his vi-
cinity and at the Grand Hiver Institute, in
Austinburg, Ohio. At the age of eighteen,
he went to Rock Creek as a clerk in a mer-
cantile business, owned by his father and a
partner, where he remained about sixteen
years. He was elected County Treasurer in
October, 1873, serving in that capacity one
term of two years, when, in 1875, he was re-
elected for another term of the same length of

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time. On the expiration of his second term
of office, he became Assistant Cashier of the
First National Bank of Jefferson, which po-
sition he still retains, to his own credit and
the satisfaction of all concerned.


In 1861, Mr. Crosby was married to Miss
Augusta M. Bond, a native of Morgan town-
ship, Ohio, and daughter of Frederick M.
Bond, a well known and worthy citizen. They
have had two children: a son, deceased; and
a daughter, Caspie E.

Fraternally, Mr. Crosby is a Ivnight Tem-
plar Mason, and a member of the Knights of
Pythias. In politics, he is a Republican.

In domestic, business and public life, Mr.
Crosby has ever been the same honorable,
energetic and capable gentleman, and richly
deserves the prosperity which he enjoys.

"Ohio Scenes and Citizens One of the States Four Romes" by Grace Goulder. This article mentions Elijah Crosby, Elijah Crosby, Jr., the first Elijah's great-grandsons Willard Crosby and Walter Crosby, the Charles Gynn family, Robert "Bob" Ingersoll, Rev. E. M. Hughart, Miss Florence Crosby (daughter of Willard), & Lavinia Crosby.

Plain Dealer. (Cleveland, Ohio), page 76, 9 Sep 1956. "Ohio's Rome Turns 150 Years Old" by David Vormelker