Howard Crosby
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Howard Crosby (1826-1891), was an American preacher and teacher, great-grandson of Judge Joseph Crosby of Massachusetts and of Gen. William Floyd of New York, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Crosby was born in New York City in 1826. He graduated in 1844 from New York University where he was one of the founding fathers of the Gamma Chapter of the Delta Phi Fraternity, and became professor of Greek at NYU in 1851. In 1859, he was appointed professor of Greek at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where two years later he was ordained pastor of the first Presbyterian church.
From 1870 to 1881 Crosby was chancellor of New York University.
He was one of the American revisers of the English version of the New Testament. Crosby took a prominent part in politics. He urged to excise reform and opposed total abstinence. He was one of the founders and the first president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime, and pleaded for better management of Indian affairs and international copyright. Among his publications are The Lands of the Moslem (1851), Bible Companion (1870), Jesus: His Life and Works (1871), True Temperance Reform (1879), True Humanity of Christ (I8~o), and commentaries on the book of Joshua (1875), Nehemiah (1877) and the New Testament (1885).
| Preceded by Isaac Ferris |
President of New York University 1870-1881 |
Succeeded by John Hall |
