CLASS OF 1849

Stephen Moody Crosby died at his summer home at Cohasset, Mass., August 31, 1909. Colonel Crosby was born in Salisbury, Mass., August 14, 1827, his father being Judge Nathan Crosby of the class of 1820, and his mother Rebecca Marquand Moody. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and the Lowell High School. He read law with his father, at Lowell, and at Harvard Law School, and practiced one year at Francestown, N. H. He then left the profession to enter upon business pursuits. For two years he was assistant superintendent of the Manchester Print Works, at Manchester, N. H., and was then at Haydenvilie, Mass., at first as agent of the Hayden Manufacturing Company and later as treasurer of the Hayden Foundry and Machine Company. Nov. 26, 1862, he was appointed paymaster in the United States Army, with the rank of major, and served as such until his resignation in November, 1865, having been brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 6, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service. In 1869 he was a member of the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature, and in 1870 and 1871 of the senate. About this time he removed to Boston, and became treasurer of the Massachusetts Loan and Trust Company, of which he later became president. This company was later merged in the Mercantile Trust Company, and then in the City Trust Company. In these banking and trust interests he became widely known in financial circles. He was for many years president of the Butte and Boston Mining Company, and treasurer of the Mexico Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. At the time of his death he was a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank. He was a member of the Boston Art Club and of the University Club, and had been vice president of the Unitarian Club of Boston. He was devotedly loyal to. the College, a very frequent visitor at Commencement, had been president of the general Alumni Association, and had remembered the College with generous pecuniary aid. October 15, 1855, he was married to Anna E., daughter of Joel Hayden of Haydenville. Mrs. Crosby died June 29, 1903, leaving no children.