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Right Worshipful Alfred R. Crosby Born August 31 1838 in Glover, Vermont R.W. Crosby. At the age of 23 he enlisted in M Company 1st New Hampshire Battery, to defend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
Right Worshipful Alfred R. Crosby<\/p>
Born August 31 1838 in Glover, Vermont R.W. Crosby. At the age of 23 he enlisted in M Company 1st New Hampshire Battery, to defend the Union in the War of the Rebellion. At the close of the war he moved to Attleboro and co-founded Smith and Crosby Jewelry Firm with William H Smith.<\/p>
An active member of the community R.W. Crosby was a member of the school committee, Chairman of the finance committee, a director of Attleboro Savings Bank, and was a Representative in the State Legislature from 1897-1899.<\/p>
He was a charter member of Ezekiel Bates Lodge as well as the lodges second Master in 1871. In 1888 he became the District Deputy Grand Master. Also a member of King Hiram Royal Arch Chapter, Attleboro Council of Royal and Select Masters, and Bristol Commandery of Knights Templar.<\/p>
R.W. Crosby entered the Celestial Lodge above on April 7th 1923 and was laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-07 01:59:38","action":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}