Henrietta Crosman

Henrietta Crosman was an American stage and film actress. She was born in Wheeling, West Virginia to George Crosman, a Civil War Major and Mary B. Wick, a niece of composer Stephen Foster.

Her grandfather was a Civil War General. Crosman was born the year the Civil War started and moved all over the US from post to post with her army father, and so was educated in many places. On leaving school she decided to become an actress. She got her start in 1883 at the old Windsor Theatre, New York with the assistance of the longtime theatre manager John A. Ellsler. Her debut role was as Lilly in Bartley Campbells The White Slave.

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