Edgar Gibson Eddie Crossman . was an attorney and senior partner in Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland amp Kiendl , a leading New York law firm, an officer in the United States Army in World War I and World War II, and a diplomat.
Crossman was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire, to Dr. Edgar Orrin Crossman, a physician and surgeon and Florence Alice Lavinia Crossman a homemaker. Mrs. Crossman was a native of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was an only child. Dr. Crossman studied at New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in Hanover and received his M.D. from the University of Vermont in 1887. Dr. Crossman served as President of the White Mountains Medical Society and in 1903 was elected to the New Hampshire General Court, the state legislature. Subsequently, Dr. Crossman was head of the Lakeview Sanitarium in Burlington, Vermont. During World War I, Dr. Crossman was a Captain in the Army Medical Corps. From 19231929, he was the first Regional Medical Director the U.S. Veterans Bureau in Boston and then in Washington, D.C. The Crossmans were members of the Congregational Church.
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