John Sherwin Crosby (January 13, 1842 – February 24, 1914) was an American author and lecturer on civics and government.

History

He was born on 13 January 1842 in Freedom, Maine, to Sherwin Crosby and Nancy Jordan Clifford. Ancestry.com: John Sherwin Crosby 1842-1914
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advocate, proponent of the

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and

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ideas of political economist

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and priest/social reformer

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, and active member of the Manhattan Single Tax Club. He wrote ''The Orthocratic State: The Unchanging Principles of Civics and Government'' which was published in 1915 by Sturgis & Walton Company.

Personal life

He first married Abby Josephine Gardner (1842–1890). They had two children, John Sherwin Crosby and Louise Leonard Crosby. ;Nellie Fassett Crosby Sometime after Abby's 1890 death, Crosby married Nellie Fassett in

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. She was the founder and president of the Women's Democratic Club of New York City. It was the first permanent national political organization exclusively established by and for women. In 1918 she was named as the representative of New York State on the Woman's Advisory Committee of the Democratic National Committee. ;Death John Sherwin Crosby died on 24 February 1914.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crosby, John Sherwin American political writers Georgists 1842 births 1914 deaths Writers from New York City New York (state) Democrats Tax reform in the United States 20th-century American non-fiction writers People from Freedom, Maine

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