Crosby
ERNEST HOWARD, American author; born at New York, Nov. 4, 1856; son of Howard Crosby. He was educated at the University of New York, and practiced law in New York from 1878-1889. He was appointed by President Harrison in 1889 Judge of the International Court at Alexandria, Egypt, where he remained till 1894. On his return he visited Count Tolstoy, and adopted that writer's ideas in regard to social reform. He was the first President of the Social Reform Club, and Chairman of the New York Friends of Russian Freedom. He published: "Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable" (1899); "Captain Jinks, Hero" (1902); "Swords and Ploughshares" (1902); "Tolstoy and his Message" and "William Lloyd Garrison" (1905). He died in 1906.