WILLLIAM CRUMRINE. The Crumrine family, an old one in this county, is of German origin. George L. Crumrine, from whom the family in Pennsylvania is directly descended, emigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to America in 1748, locating in Maryland. A son, Abraham Crumrine, married there and reared a family of children, among whom was a son John, the father of our subject.
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William Crumrine, the eighth child in the order of birth of John and Barbara Crumrine, was born March 15, 1817, in Washington county, Penn. He was reared to a full knowledge of all arduous farm life, receiving a limited education in the neighboring "log-cabin school." He began life on his own account as a farmer, in which, with the exception of sixteen years, during which he conducted a mercantile business at Lindley's Mills, he has been engaged all his life. His farm near Dennis Station is excellently improved, and yields a handsome income. In 1845 Mr. Crumrine was married to Lydia, daughter of Thomas Ross, of Ruff's Creek, Greene Co., Penn. To them eleven children have been born: John Thomas, a minister at Cedarville, N. J. ; Kennedy, a wholesale paper dealer, of Pittsburgh; Ross, who died at the age of twenty-five years; Hannah Lucinda, wife of E. A. Conger, of Morris township; Mary E. , a school teacher, at home; Frank, died in infancy; Homer, living at Deer Lick, Greene county; Stephen, died when young; M. D., who married Nannie McVay, and assists in the farm work at home; and Timothy and George, who died when young. In politics Mr. Crumrine is a Democrat. Both he and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
