Lorenzo Dow McCroskey

1887 -

• Name	Lorenzo Dow McCroskey
  Birth	20 Feb 1887	Springview, NE
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I3155	forneyclark
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Harvey Chapman McCroskey,   b. 13 May 1859, what is now Roane Co., WV d. 1914, Lincoln, NE (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Flora Augusta Templeton,   b. 11 Nov 1866, Worchester, VT
  Marriage	8 Dec 1884	Wahoo, NE
  Family ID	F0444	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Source: McCroskey, Kyle. McCroskey Family Tree, Descendants of John McCroskey (1680-1757). 2000. Most of the information that concerns the McCroskey family including names, dates, places, census reports, documents, photos, and stories, came from Kyle McCroskey's book. Contributors to her book included Caroline Carr, Donna Clark, Patty Day, Earl McCroskey, George Woodrow McCroskey, Harold McCroskey, Kyle McCroskey, Mike McCroskey, Madaline Earl McEuen, Rosanna Payne, Ruth Peterson, Jo Speck, and Marge Wheeler. Special thanks went to Mark McCroskey and to Judith Hildreth. Source: http://dentons.acun.com/Lorenzo%20Dow.htm VISIT OF LORENZO DOW TO INDIANAPOLIS (From: "Sketches of Prominent Citizens of 1876" by Nowland) About the year 1827 this eccentric man (Lorenzo Dow) first visited Indianapolis. He was an itinerant preacher, belonging to no particular church nor holding to any particular tenet of faith or religious doctrine. He was well known throughout the United States, particularly in the south and west, having traversed the country on horseback from one end to the other. His preaching and teachings were mostly in the villages or at the cross roads, where he would be most likely to find hearers; if he made regular appointments they were generally a year ahead. The first known of his appearance in a village would be his standing on a street corner on a log or stump and proclaiming what he called his mission from God "to preach the gospel to every creature." He was a large, raw-honed man, stoop-shouldered, his beard reaching to the middle of his body, his hair loose and flowing to his shoulders. Source: Donna Forney Clark: During the 1800's, thousands of US baby boys were named after the itinerant preacher Lorenzo Dow.