GEORGE D. CRUMRINE, one of the progressive, native-born merchants of Carroll County, was born in the town of Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ohio, December 21, 1859, of Pennsylvanian ancestry. The first of the family to come to Ohio was the grandfather of George D., who died in western Ohio; the grandmother died in Carroll County. They were the parents of ten children, named as follows: Henry, George, Peter, William, Martin, ]ohn, Eliza, David, Isaac and Sarah. Of these David died in the army, and Isaac, the father of George D., was born in Carroll Co., Md. When a boy he came with his parents to Carroll County, Ohio, where he grew up on a farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to Canton, same State, and there learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he followed several years, then moved to Carrollton, and opened the first hardware store in the place, in a brick building, where a hotel was kept, located west of the Stemple House. This he carried on until during the Civil War, when he sold out and opened another store, where G.J. Butler now carries on trade. Mr. Crumrine later established yet another business, where his son, George D., now is; he was also proprietor of an elevator and warehouse from 1878 to 1887. He married Miss Susannah Aller, who bore him seven children, viz.: Two deceased in infancy; Mary, wife of George H. Swift, conductor on the Cleveland & Canton Railroad; Sarah, wife of S. J. Cameron, in Carrollton; Annie, wife of H. A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of the Cleveland & Canton Railroad; George D., and Charles, in Carrollton. On September 11, 1887, the father died, at the age of sixty-four years; he was a hard-working man throughout life, and, by his own individual toil, won a creditable competency; he was a member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics was a Democrat. The mother still lives in Carrollton, now at the advanced age of seventy-one years.
Their son, George D., received a good common-school education, and, as soon as he was old enough, be commenced to assist his father in the store, and, after the latter’s decease, he succeeded to the business, which comprises general merchandise. In 1882 he was married to Miss Margaretta, daughter of David Skeels, of Carrollton, and by this union were born two children: David I. and Lizzie, who died at the age of eighteen months. Mr. and Mrs. Crumrine are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics he is a Democrat, and is a member of the K. of P.
