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Elizabeth C. Crosby was born on October 25, 1888 in Petersburg, Michigan, United States. She was the daughter of Lewis Frederick and Frances (Kreps) Crosby.
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Elizabeth C. Crosby was born on October 25, 1888 in Petersburg, Michigan, United States. She was the daughter of Lewis Frederick and Frances (Kreps) Crosby.
In the log house on their homestead, Crosby read adult books before she went to school.
When she graduated from high school, her father promised her four years of college as a graduation present.
Majoring in mathematics at nearby Adrian College, she completed the four-year program in three years, graduating in 1910.
With one year left of her father’s gift, she applied to C. Judson Herrick’s anatomy program at the University of Chicago. At that time her only background for the course was one undergraduate course in zoology.
She received a master’s degree in 1912 and was given a fellowship in the anatomy department. Her Doctor of Philosophy degree followed in 1915, and her dissertation, The Forebrain of Alligator mississippiensis, became an influential work.
In 1923, Crosby took several leaves to study at the University of London and the Central Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
She received ten honorary doctorates, and her honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands allowed her to add that designation behind her name.
Early in career Crosby taught zoology, mathematics, and Latin in the Petersburg high school, and coached the local boys’ basketball team. She became principal of the school in 1916 and superintendent of school in 1918.
In 1918, Crosby and C. Judson Herrick published A Laboratory Outline of Neurology with detailed instructions for brain dissection. Her mother died that year, and in 1920, Crosby secured a job as junior instructor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, thirty miles from Petersburg. There she taught histology and assisted G. Carl Huber, head of the anatomy department, with the neuroanatomy course. Crosby and Huber developed a close personal and working relationship. They continued her work on the alligator brain, then turned to descriptive studies of the brains of birds.
In 1929 she took the post of an associate professor in Petersburg High School and during 24 years from 1936 she became a full professor and consulting neurosurgeon at the same school.
Crosby also worked as a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1936.
In 1939 she took a sabbatical to work with Prof Robert Douglas Lockhart at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Due to introduction of war-time trans-Atlantic travel restrictions in the Second World War she unintentionally remained there until 1941.
She eventually became Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Consultant of Neurosurgery before leaving the University of Michigan for University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1963, where she again became Professor Emeritus of Anatomy.
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Crosby was a member of Alabama Academy Science, American Association Aanatomists, Harvey Cushing Association and Cajal.
Crosby had an adopted child, Kathleen.