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John Sherwin Crosby (January 13, 1842 – February 24, 1914) was an American author and lecturer on civics and government.
He was born on 13 January 1842 in Freedom, Maine, to Sherwin Crosby and Nancy Jordan Clifford.[1][2]
Crosby was a single tax advocate, proponent of the Georgism and land value tax ideas of political economist Henry George and priest/social reformer Edward McGlynn, and active member of the Manhattan Single Tax Club.[3] He wrote The Orthocratic State: The Unchanging Principles of Civics and Government which was published in 1915 by Sturgis & Walton Company.
He first married Abby Josephine Gardner on June 30, 1865. They had two children, John Sherwin Crosby and Louise Leonard Crosby. Abby died on November 24, 1881.[1]
Crosby remarried to Nellie Fassett in St. Louis on July 22, 1896.[1][2] 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.[4]
In 1918 she was named as the representative of New York State on the Woman's Advisory Committee of the Democratic National Committee.[5]
John Sherwin Crosby died at his home in New York City on February 24, 1914.[1][6]
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