Richard Crossfield
minister for Disciples of Christ and university administrator (1868-1951)
Richard Henry Crossfield Jr. (October 22, 1868 – July 30, 1951) was a leader in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as a minister, theologian and an educational reformer. He was installed as president of Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky in 1908 and then oversaw its merger with the College of the Bible in 1912, which created the Transylvania University. In 1922, Crossfield became president of another Christian Church-affiliated school, William Woods College of Missouri. He was a member of the Board of Education of the Disciples of Christ, served as Executive Secretary of the ecumenical and pro-temperance Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Early life and family
Richard H. Crossfield Jr. was the youngest son of a large, blended family. His father Richard Henry Crossfield (1821–1908) was a politician who served three terms as sheriff, county judge for four years, and in 1891 elected state Representative for Anderson County, Kentucky. His mother Elizabeth Ann Jackson Crossfield (1837–1908) was Crossfield's second wife who had four of a total of twelve siblings raised there.
Crossfield grew up on a large farm in the house built by his father near Fox Creek in Anderson County.
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