Crosby, John (3)
Crosby, John (1)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Whitby in 1755. He was converted in 1774, under the preaching of a Church of England minister, and in 1783 Wesley appointed him to a circuit. He labored with great success for twenty-eight years, travelling eighteen circuits, finally settled at Bolton as a supernumerary, and died there, March 29, 1816. See Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1819, page 3; Minutes of the British Conference, 1816.
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Crosby, John (2)
a Congregational minister, was born at Bangor, Maine, in 1803. He graduated: from Bowdoin College in 1823; taught for a year in Hallowell; graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1827, and, June 11, 1828, was ordained pastor in Castine; resigned in 1831; labored for a year in Pennsylvania as agent of the American Colonization Society; then went to Savannah, Ga., and subsequently to Barbadoes, where he died, May 26, 1833. See History of Bowdoin College, pages 261, 262; Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 74. (J.C.S.)
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Crosby, John (3)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Powis House, near Kirbythorpe, Westmoreland, August 9, 1804. He was converted in 1819; in 1829 was sent to Penrith as supply; the following year to Appleby, and in 1831 to Kendal, where he died, January 3, 1832. See Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1834, page 493; Minutes of the British Conference, 1832, page 111.