Clarkson F. Crosby

Clarkson Floyd Crosby (November 3, 1817 – February 22, 1858) His parents built one of Manhattan's largest houses, modeled after a Regency house in London, that occupied two blocks on Monroe Street (now known as Rutgers Place). who both died when his father was young; thereafter his father and his brother John Player Crosby were adopted by their bachelor uncle, Col. Rutgers, whose estate was worth a million dollars in 1830. His maternal grandparents were Rev. William Clarkson of South Carolina, and Catherine (née Floyd) Clarkson, herself a daughter of Gen. William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (11th D.) in 1854 and 1855. While in the Senate, he served on the Select Committee.

Personal life On September 8, 1838, he married Angelica Schuyler (1820–1896), daughter of John Schuyler and Maria (née Miller) Schuyler. They lived in Watervliet, New York, and had three children, including:

John Schuyler Crosby (1839–1914), who married Harriet Van Rensselaer, youngest daughter of Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer IV, and became the Governor of Montana Territory. Eliza Maria Crosby (1857–1884), who married William M. Alexander (1845–1872) and Thaddeus Alexander Snively (1851–1913) He was buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Descendants Through his daughter Harriette, he was the grandfather of Clarkson Crosby Thompson, who married Elizabeth Winters; William Leland Thompson, who married Martha Groome; and Angelica Schuyler Thompson, who married Elbert Scranton. who married Henrietta Marion Grew (sister-in-law of J. P. Morgan Jr.); and Angelica Schuyler Crosby (1872–1907), who married the diplomat John B. Henderson Jr., son of U.S. Senator John B. Henderson and Mary Foote Henderson.