ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

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

 "ELIJAH CROSBY was born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut,
 on the 14th day of February, 1805.  He is a younger brother of Levi Crosby.  The
 subject of the present sketch was married on the 10 of October, 1831, to
 Elizabeth L., daughter of Deacon Erastus and Lydia Williams Chester, formerly of
 Colchester. New London County, Connecticut, and who arrived in Rome
 Township, this county, on June 1, 1827, where the father died on March 9, 1877,
 and the mother, August 30, 1857.  Mr. Elijah Crosby has held many township
 offices and has filled them with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his
 constituents.  This couple became members of the Presbyterian Church in 1831,
 and have been since that time active and consistent members.  The occupations
 of his life have been that of house-building, which avocation he followed during
 the early years of his life, and farming, of which class he has for years been an
 industrious and honored member.  (He) is in politics thoroughly Republican.  

 The children of Mr. Crosby, with dates of birth and marriage are given below, viz.:
  Lydia A., born December 23, 1832, married to J.W. Springer, June 3, 1861;
 Frank E., born July 29, 1834, married to Emma Wood, September 12, 1863;
 Orietta M., born August 5, 1836, married Oliver Smith, August 31, 1856; Elliot M.,
 born February 28, 1839, married Betsey Crowell, August 20, 1865, died January
 5, 1876; Albert C., born January 24, 1842, married Sylvia Fobes, December 23,
 1870; Sarah E., born June 2, 1844, married E.J. Crowell, December 16, 1866;
 Phebe C., born February 22, 1847, died October 29, 1876, unmarried; Alice L.,
 born April 22, 1850; Carrie J., born November 18, 1856, married E.H. Stiles,
 December 25, 1877."