that a notice of his life
and labors, more extended than has hitherto appeared, is justly due
his memory.

"Professor Crosby very early showed remarkable power in the
acquisition of knowledge. He learned the rudimentary branches of
education almost without a teacher. Mathematics, Latin, and Greek came
to him almost by intuition. When engaged in study, he was so deeply
absorbed that he seemed wholly unconscious of time, place, or
surroundings. When in his tenth year he was taken to Hanover, the seat
of Dartmouth College, and was placed temporarily under Professor Adams
in Algebra and Euclid, under Tutor James Marsh in Latin, and under
Tutor Rufus Choate in Greek; and these gentlemen pronounced him fitted
for college. He was then returned to Gilmanton Academy, and, to
prevent him from trespassing upon college studies, he was put to the
study of Hebrew, under the Rev. John L. Parkhurst, who was well known
as a ripe scholar. He was subsequently sent to Exeter Academy to
bridge over, with various studies, the months which his friends
thought must be passed before he should enter college. At the fall
term of the college, in 1823, in his thirteenth year, he entered; and
he passed through the four years' course of study without a rival and
far beyond rivalry. His power of acquisition and retention was
marvelous.

"After his graduation, he was kept at Hanover four years; the first,
as the preceptor of Moor's Indian Charity School, and the following
three as tutor in the college. During this period he joined the
college church, and formed his purpose to prepare for the ministry,
and spent nearly two years at the Theological Seminary, in Andover,
Mass. He was appointed to a professorship of Latin and Greek, in 1833.
In 1837 he was released from the Latin and became professor of Greek
only, which office he held until 1849, when he resigned; but he
remained Professor _Emeritus_ until his death.

"In 1834 he married Miss Abigail Grant Jones Cutler, only child of
Joseph and Abigail Cheesboro Grant (Jones) Cutler, of Newburyport,
Mass. Mrs. Crosby becoming an invalid, Professor Crosby took her to
Europe and traveled with her through England, Germany, and France,
until they reached Paris, where Mrs. Crosby died. On his return he
resumed the duties of his professorship. After the death of his
father-in-law, Mr. Cutler, he resigned his professorship, and removed
to Newburyport to care for Mrs. Cutler, who was an invalid. His Greek
Gr