A son was born to Thomas and Elvira (Chase) Crosby.

The evidence

• “H. He was born December 9, 1836, and is the eldest of a family of three children born to Thomas and Elvira (Chase) Crosby, the former a native of Brattleboro and the latter of Waterford, Vt. Their other children were Charles C, now deceased, and Cornelia A., who resides at the family homestead in Rock county.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 486 / book p. 973

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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