Harry Crosby (1898-1929)

of Ermenonville, near Paris; Publisher & Founder of the Black Sun Press

He was born Henry Sturgis Crosby but was better known as Harry Grew Crosby, or just Harry. He was the nephew-by-marriage of J.P. Morgan and died in 1929 at the age of 31 in a double suicide pact in a New York hotel with one of his mistresses.

Parents (2)

Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby

Investment Banker, of Boston

1868-1959

Henrietta (Grew) Crosby

Mrs Henrietta Marian (Grew) Crosby

1872-1957

Spouse (1)

Caresse Crosby

Mrs "Caresse" Mary Phelps (Jacob) Peabody, Crosby, Young; Poet, Publisher, Inventor

1892-1970