ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: LEVI CROSBY (pub 1878)

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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.


According to 
                      THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
                   WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
                     OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MENT
                     Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

  LEVI CROSBY ..."was born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, on 
the 2d day of April, 1803.  His   father, Elijah Crosby, was born in the township 
and county above given, May 13, 1764.  His mother was Phoebe   Church and the 
date of her birth was October 7, 1767.  They were married October 31, 1787, and 
settled in Rome   Township in the month of August, 1806.  Here the father died 
July 30, 1835, and the mother, July 30, 1846.  The   subject of the present 
sketch was, on the 28th of February, 1832, united in marriage to Miss Sarah 
Leonard,   whose place of nativity was Warren, Herkimer County, New York.  The 
result of this marriage was four children:    the dates of whose several births 
are as follows:  Giles H., born January 19, 1833, married October 5, 1862;
  Dwight L., born November 21, 1835, married November 16, 1864; Maria J., born 
March 16, 1840, married January   2, 1863; and Jane E., who was born on the 10th 
day of October, 1844, and was married on the 24th day of   September 1866.  The 
wife of Levi Crosby died in January, 1846, and on December 8, 1851, he was again
  married, to Mrs. M.C. Willey.  After the death of his father, Levi was 
appointed agent for the sale of the lands yet   unsold in Rome Township.  He was 
for many years engaged in the mercantile and produce business in connection
  with farming, but of late has given up everything else and is as he expresses 
himself, "only an honest tiller of the   soil".  He is eminently worthy of his 
place among the pioneer fathers of Ashtabula County and has ever been
  foremost in promoting the general growth of his adopted home.  In politics Mr. 
Crosby is a staunch Republican,   having been first a Free-Soiler and afterwards 
a Whig.  Giles H., the eldest son of this gentleman, has turned his
  attention somewhat to inventing.  Is the patentee of the iron- bob sled 
bearing his name, and has recently obtained   letters patent on a buggy wheel, 
which is quite superior, we believe, in some respects to anything that has  
preceded it."