Crosby Stuart Noyes

  General Notes:

See general notes on his daughter, Miranda, for 1880 census facts.

The 1900 Federal Census for Wheaton, Montgomery Co., Maryland, District 66, page 313B, dated June 18, 1900 records Crosby S. (Feb 1825 - Maine/Maine/Maine) and Elizabeth S. (Jan 1828 - Maine/Maine/Maine) Noyes. Crosby indicates he is employed as a Journalist. Crosby and Elizabeth have been married for 44 years and have had 7 children of whom 4 are still living. Also in the hosehol are 6 servants.


Crosby S. Noyes editor of the Washington Star, died late this afternoon February 22, 1908. His death was reported today from Pasadena, Cal., was 83 years of age, and no less than sixty years of his manhood had been spent in the newspaper business. He was born in Minot, Maine, Feb. 16, 1825, and, finding farm life too hard for his frail physique, he came to Washington in 1847, making the last stages of his journey on foot for lack of funds. He began his newspaper work in the following year as a special correspondent and a writer for the Washington News. From that date until a week preceding his death Mr. Noyes labored unceasingly at his chosen profession, and set a high example upon Washington journalism as a purveyor of clean, sound, active facts.
Surrounded by All Members of Family, Veteran Washington Editor Passes Away at Pasadena.
February 22, 1908 - Crosby Stuart Noyes, editor-in-chief of the Washington Evening Star, died at 5:30 o'clock last evening at the Hotel Raymond, Pasadena, after an illness.

Crosby married someone circa 1856.