Excerpt from Labor and Neighbor: An Appeal to First Principles

These pages contain the last message of Ernest Crosby, the only full-rounded Industrial study which this man of robust thought and clear and picturesque expression has left us.

He was a son of Dr. Howard Crosby, the old-time Presbyterian clergyman of New York, whose memory is an inspiration. Dr. Crosby's personality, while delightful, was commanding. He believed firmly In what he believed, yet was broadly tolerant. Though pastor of a wealthy congregation, he knew no distinctions of caste. A man of infinite moral courage, he thought right, spoke right and did right, as God had given him to see the right, regardless of consequences.

Dr. Crosby's influence was easily traceable in the career of his more widely famous son. A poet of exceptional insight and power of rhythmical expression, a speaker of commanding presence, with a rare faculty of thinking coherently and forcibly in the face of an audience, and of composing extemporaneously with simple eloquence and in unimpassioned manner, a prose author of direct and lucid style, Ernest Howard Crosby gave vitality to his talents and acquirements through the loftiness of his ideals and the inflexibility of his courage.

He was born In New York City, November 4, 1856. His academic training was at Mohegan Lake School. In 1876 he graduated from the University of New York, and in 1878 from the law school of Columbia University. After practicing law for several years In his native city, he joined the group of "rich men's sons, " which included Theodore Roosevelt, in the work of renovating politics, and along with Mr. Roosevelt was sent to the lower house of the legislature. Re-elected, he served as chairman of the committee on cities. President Harrison then nominated him to a judgeship in the international court In Egypt, to which he was appointed by the Khedive in 1889.

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