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A. B. Crosby

Surgeon

Centurion, 1873–1877

Full Name Alpheus Benning Crosby

Born 22 February 1832 in Gilmarton, New Hampshire

Died 9 August 1877 in Hanover, New Hampshire

Buried Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, New Hampshire

Proposed by Noah Hunt Schenck and Edward S. Dunster

Elected 1 November 1873 at age forty-one

Century Memorial

The Club has lost by death during the year the following members: James W. Beekman, John Winthrop Chanler, Alpheus B. Crosby, Frederick Fawcett, Henry Peters Gray, William P. Lee, Marshall Pepoon, Edward Seymour, J. Butler Wright, Charles E. Milnor, William B. Ogden, and J. V. L. Pruyn. Most of these were old members of the Century, many of them eminent in the community and leaders in their respective walks of life, and several of them among the most loved of our associates.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1878 Century Association Reports