Eli Crumrine passed away at 4 o'clock this morning. He was taken off the train yesterday, on his return from a trip to Pennsylvania, in a very weak and serious condition, and grew steadily worse until death came. He was taken ill on the way east and spent a week in a hospital at Topeka, Kansas, then. On his return he went to a hospital in Denver and had been there for several days when the sisters telegraphed for Mrs. Crumrine to come.
Pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death, although he had been a sufferer from asthma for some years.
Mr. Crumrine was born in Brownsville, Pa., September 11, 1843 and grew up there. He and Mrs. Crumrine were married there in 1870 and three children were born to them, two sons and a daughter, Edgar, Harry and Alice. In 1866 Mr. Crumrine went into the Second National Bank of Brownsville and remained with it for twenty years, part of the time as its cashier. In 1886 he moved to Laramie, and with the help of the Brownsville bank, organized and established the Albany County National bank in this city. He was the cashier of the new bank for many years. Within the past ten or fifteen years the stock in the Albany County bank has passed into local hands and at the time of his death Mr. Crumrine was vice-president of the bank.
Mr. Crumrine was with the 85th Pennsylvania through the Civil war and was a member of Custer Post G.A.R. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie library for seven years; he had been a member of the state senate for two years at the time of his death; was a director in the Albany County Mutual Building & Loan association from the time of its organization in 1892 and always took a very active interest in it; he was one of the most liberal supporters of the Presbyterian church, although not a member. He was a man of great force of character and independence of action and one of the most influential business men in the state.
Mr. Crumrine is survived by his wife and his three children, Edgar, Mrs. C.D. Spalding and Harry, and by his son-in-law and grandson, C.D. Spalding and little Charles.
There are many in Albany county who will mourn the death of Mr. Crumrine with a feeling of deep personal loss. There are many acts of kindness and feeling for others which are known perhaps only to the recipients and to Mr. Crumrine, or which he never spoke, but which will serve to enrich his memory in the hearts of those who realized the true worth of their friend. He found time and opportunity to help others in a quiet, unassuming way, asking nothing in return. Few men there are who, after a life of work in banking and finance, will leave behind them so many memories of kindness and helpfulness.
Laramie Daily Boomerang no. 165 September 30, 1910
Family Members
Spouse
Mary Crumrine
1847–1920
Children
Newton Edgar Crumrine
1872–1931
Alice "Allie" Crumrine Spalding
1875–1954
Harry R. Crumrine
1877–1929
