Josiah Willis Crosby (1818-1904) was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. As a Republican, he served in the Maine Senate during 1867 and 1868. In 1868, he served as Senate President.
He married twice. He married Henrietta Hill in 1844. The couple had two children, both of whom died in infancy and she died in 1846. In 1849, he married Mary Bradbury Foss, the daughter of prominent attorney Simeon Foss of Dexter. The pair had nine children, seven of whom were still alive at the time of his death in 1904. One of his children, Harold J. Crosby, became a well-known composer.[2]
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^"Ex-President of Senate". Morning Sentinel. 7 May 1904. p. 6.
^"CRCCB Foundation - Harold Josiah Crosby". www.cuthbert-foundation.org.
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