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Crosby, John (2)

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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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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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Crosby, John (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/crosby-john-2.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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