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Show Heath or lie. ( rftsuy, Nic Yuiuc, March ii). Dr. Howard How-ard Crosby dlul at 6 4 1 this evening. Ilia end waa i..iccful. Aa the bolls were ringing for vesper icnlco for laaterl)a, he asked by a sign for lir ami wrote a fewllnca tg his loved uuea, tu hla aUent ton and daughter lu llgypt, and three iiiowUti of hla faml. I at home Tho first words of tlila, hit lt wtllloc;, wtrol "1 kuoiv I have to go," Howard f'reaby waa born In New YorkL'tjy, 1'ebiuary 27, 18.7. Ilowaa of a llevolutloniry family, hla gran I f-dher, I.Unaitr Crosby, Mug tur. kiNii general uf tho Washington Quanta, lllafatlici writ William Ited low Crosby, the jilillauthroplst. II graduated at tlio University of Now Vork. In 1833 ho took Ilia pastorship of tlio Fourth Avenue 1'rcsbylerlau (.hutch, with which he waa naaouUtcil aj Ihi! lime of hla death. Dr. Crosby waacibnsen moderahir of the general iweml ly of the 1'reaby. Urlin Chuicli In 1HT1 and In 1817 lie vaa u delegato to the first l'reeby tcTluu general council at IMInburg. 1 u 1877 lie look a lea Hug ntt lu establishing the society tortlie 1'ieveiitlon of VKo. As an auttior lie has wiltten a mimber of scholarly books nn lllbllcal aul- l)r! Croabv's lute rest In publlo aflalra wuaihown ly tho active iarl he look In th Inte real or the l'euplo's Municipal Munici-pal Isvague movement. |