History of Decatur, (Brown County) Ohio United States of America

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William Otis Crosby, geologist, was born in Decatur, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1850; son of Francis William and Hannah Everett (Ballard) Crosby; grandson of Henry Sibley and Sarah Ann (Capron) Crosby, and of Frederick and Achsah (Everett) Ballard, and a descendant of Simon Crosby, who came from Lancashire, England, and settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1635. He was graduated at the Massachusetts institute of technology in 1876, remaining at the institute as assistant instructor, 1876-80; as full instructor 1880-83, as assistant professor of mineralogy and lithology, 1883-93, and as assistant professor of structural and economic geology, from 1893. His travels for investigation included the United States, Canada and the West Indies, and his published papers, eighty in number, include memoirs of the geology of the various places visited. He was elected to membership in various scientific societies, lectured before the Lowell institute, and was assistant in the Boston museum of natural history from 1875. He is the author of Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts (1880); Common Minerals and Rocks (1881, new edition, 1886);Guide to Mineralogy (1886); Fables for the Determination of Common Minerals (1887); Guide to Dynamical Geology and Petrography (1892); Geology of the Boston Basin (parts 1 and 2, 1893-94); Notes on Chemical Geology (1897), and Classification of Economic Geological Deposits.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Decatur, (Brown County) Ohio

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