Howard Crosby (February 27, 1826 – March 29, 1891) was an American Presbyterian preacher, scholar and professor. He was Chancellor of New York University.
Biography
Crosby was born in New York City in 1826 to William Bedlow Crosby and Harriet Ashton Clarkson. His ancestors included Judge Joseph Crosby of Massachusetts, Gen. William Floyd of New York, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Rip Van Dam, and Matthias Nicoll. He is also the father of Ernest Howard Crosby, and a relative of Fanny Crosby.
Crosby graduated in 1844 from NYU where he was one of the founding fathers of the Gamma Chapter of the Delta Phi fraternity, and became professor of Greek at NYU in 1851. In 1859, he was appointed professor of Greek at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where two years later he was ordained pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick.
From 1870 to 1881 Crosby was chancellor of New York University, then known as the University of the City of New York.
Works
- The Lands of the Moslem (1851)
- A Bible Manual: intended to furnish a general view of the Holy Scriptures, as introductory to their study (1869)
- Bible Companion (1870)
- The Healthy Christian: An Appeal to the Church (1871)
- Jesus: His Life and Works (1871)
- Thoughts on the Decalogue (1873)
- The Bible on the Side of Science. A Lecture Delivered in New York (1875)
- Expository notes on the Book of Joshua (1875)
- The New Testament, with Brief Explanatory Notes Or Scholia
- The Book of Nehemiah (1877)
- True Temperance Reform (1879)
- The Christian Preacher (1880)
- The True Humanity of Christ (1880)
- Moderation vs. Total Abstinence
- The New Testament in both Authorized and Revised versions (1884)
- The Bible view of the Jewish church, in Thirteen Lectures (1888)