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Crosby, John B., Captain, 1833-1919
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Captain John B. Crosby was a master mariner. He was born in 1833 in Chebogue, Nova Scotia, to Abijah Crosby. In 1860 he was married to Mary E. Perry, with whom he had three children, Lemuel Stanley, Annie and Thomas. In 1899 he married the widow, Francis E. Wood, who had two children. Crosby died in 1919 in Tusket, Nova Scotia, aged 85.