Samuel M. Crosby and Jennie Beggs

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Husband Samuel M. Crosby ¹

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           Born: 6 May 1833 - Parks Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Mar 1914 - ? Leechburg, Allegheny Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: Samuel Crosby (1801-1884) 1
         Mother: Jane Gourley (1808-1867) 1

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       Marriage: Dec 1880 2

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Wife Jennie Beggs ²

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           Born: 5 Dec 1857 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Apr 1903 - Omaha, Douglas Co, NE 2
         Buried:  - Leechburg Cemetery, Leechburg, Armstrong Co, PA

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Children

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1 F Glennie Bowers ²

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            AKA: Glennie Crosby 2
           Born: 
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           Died: 
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         Status: Foster Child

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel M. Crosby

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He was born on the family homestead in Parks township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and there began his education in the public schools. Later he was a pupil at the Leechburg Acad­emy, after which he engaged in teaching school, which profession he followed for nine terms in Armstrong County. After the [Civil] war he made a trip West and South, remaining some time, and later engaged in the mercan­tile business at North Apollo for a number of years. Having always been ambitious to study law he sold out and began reading with his brother, Graves S. Crosby, who prac­ticed at Parker and Kittanning, and also read law with Wilson Jenks, at Clarion, PA, being admitted to the bar in Clarion County, in the year 1873. He only practiced there a short time, however, before he was admitted to the Armstrong County bar, and from that time until 1888 he engaged in practice in his native county. He was admitted to the Supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1887. In 1888 he went out to Omaha, Nebraska, where he was ad­mitted to the bar and entered upon practice, and he was also admitted to practice in Utah. He continued to follow his profession at Oma­ha for a period of fifteen years, during which he was very successful. Coming back to his home county on the death of his wife, he remained there, making his home on Grant street, in the borough of Leechburg, where he led a retired life until his death. He was prob­ably best known as Judge Crosby, having served six years as municipal judge in Oma­ha, Nebr. He was a man whose high integ­rity and honorable character commanded the respect of all who knew him. His life was interesting and eventful, and he was a use­ful member of the profession of his choice.
Fraternally Judge Crosby was a Mason, first holding membership in the Blue Lodge at Parkers Landing, Armstrong County, and later transferring to Leechburg Lodge, No. 577, F. & A. M., with which he was connected until his death. In politics he was a Republican. During the Civil war he entered the 78th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Sirwell, was elected lieutenant of Company I, and served with the Army of the Cumberland.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie Beggs

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from Parker, Armstrong Co, PA

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 555.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 556.