James Judson Crossley (1957)

CROSSLEY, MILES, DOSSER, MUDD, PINKSTAFF, CURRIN, RICHARDSON

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Date: 3/12/2007 at 19:04:50

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
October 30, 1957

J. J. CROSSLEY DIES AT PORTLAND, ORE.

James Judson Crossley, a native of Madison county, and a former Winterset attorney and state senator from this district, died at a hospital in Portland, Oregon, Friday, Oct. 25, at the age of 88 years. He had been in poor health for several years and was taken to the hospital Oct. 21 for treatment of pneumonia. He suffered a severe stroke Friday afternoon and died shortly after. He had resided in Portland the past 40 years.

A son of John W. and Cynthia Crossley, he was born in Crawford township, Aug. 31, 1869. Following the completion of high school, he attended Des Moines college and the University of Iowa, from which he received his B.A. degree in 1891. He taught school in Madison county, and served as County Superintendent of Schools from 1894 to 1898. Following this he attended Yale University, taking law and received a Ph.D. from that institution in 1899.

He practiced law in Winterset and was elected state senator from the 16th district of Madison and Adair county in 1899, and reelected in 1903, resigning June 18, 1908; he was appointed a district attorney in Alaska and he resided in Fairbanks for several years. He returned to Portland, Ore., where he again engaged in the practice of law. He had served in the Iowa National Guard in Winterset, being elected captain of Company G. March 11, 1901, so enlisted from Portland in World War I and was sent to Germany, where he was made a Colonel.

A brother, John I. Crossley and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Miles of Winterset survive him. He also leaves five daughters, Mrs. Helen Dosser of Spokand, Wash., Mrs. Jane Mudd of Salem, Ore., Mrs. Hannah Pinkstaff of Eugene, Ore., Mrs. Alice Currin of Klamath Falls, Ore., and Mrs. Cherry Richardson of Stillwater, Texas who was enroute to Portland at the time of her father's death. A son by a former marriage, Howell Crossley, preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held at the Holman Funeral home in Portland Tuesday and burial was in that city.