Crooks, George Richard

D.D. (Dick in son College, 1857), Methodist; b. in Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 3, 1822; graduated at Dick in son College, Car lisle, Penn., 1840; was teacher and adjunct profe or of Latin and Greek in the college, 1841-48; pastor of various Methodist churches in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York, 1848- 80; editor of The Methodist, 1860-75; since 1880 has been profe or of church history in Drew Methodist-Episcopal Theological Seminary, Madison, N.J. He published, with Dr. McClintock, The First Book in Latin, New York, 1846 (numerous editions); with Profe or Scheni, Latin-English School Lexicon, Philadelphia, 1858, last ed. 1882; with Dr. Hurst, an adaptation of Hagenbach's Theological Encyclopaedia and Methodology, New York, 1884; and separately, an edition of Butler's Analogy, with a life of Butler, and Emory's Analysis completed, New York, 1852; Life and Letters of the Rev. Dr. John McClintock, 1876 Sermons of Bishop Matthew Simpson, edited from short-hand Reports, 1885.