Biographical Sketch of Wallace Crossley, Johnson County, Missouri,
Warrensburg.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Wallace Crossley, of Warrensburg, Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri, was
born at Bellair, Cooper county, Missouri, October 8, 1874.  He is a son
of S. W. Crossley, a one-armed veteran of Stonewall Jackson's brigade,
who moved from Virginia to Missouri after the war and engaged in teach-
ing in Boone and Cooper counties until his death in 1884, after which
his widow, who was Miss Elberta Givens, a native of Kentucky, reared in
Boone county, Missouri, moved with her son to Mexico, Missouri. Wallace
Crossley received his schooling in Mexico High School, William Jewell
College and the State University.  He taught at Mexico, spent a year in
charge of Pilot Grove Academy and for three years was instructor in the
English department of the Warrensburg State Normal after which he 
embarked in the newspaper business as editor and proprietor of the 
Johnson County Star.  He is still connected financially with the 
Warrensburg Star-Journal, one of Missouri's largest country newspapers.
In 1904, he was sent to the Legislature from Johnson county, and served
three terms.  In 1912, he was elected State Senator without opposition
from the district composed of Cass, Johnson and Lafayette counties.
During his legislative career he took particular interest in measures
affecting the state highway system, the public schools and prison re-
form, being a member of the senate committe whose report to the Legis-
lature resulted in a sweeping change in Missouri's penal system.  Mr.
Crossley was married December 30, 1902, to Miss Erma Cheatham of
Warrensburg.  They have no children.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Crossley are
members of the Baptist church, and he belongs to several leading 
fraternal organizations.

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