Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 51

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710

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Issue of Thomas and Jane (Ashton) Crispin:

SILAS, of whom presently;

Thomas;

Joseph ;

Hannah, m. April 2, 1748, at Trinity Church, Oxford; both are buried in the old Crispin burying-ground;

Mercy, m. March 1, 1753, at Trinity Church, Oxford, Joseph Engle, brother of John Engle, who married her sister Hannah; they were residents of Lower Dublin twp.

SILAS CRISPIN, son of Thomas and Jane ( Ashton) Crispin, inherited the land of his father in Lower Dublin township and lived his whole life there. In 1794 he wrote an account of the family graveyard. His will dated October 14, 1794, was proven January 25, 1800; his son Silas being made executor. Silas Crispin mar- ried Martha

Issue of Silas and Martha Crispin:

Joseph, b. 1761, d. Phila. Feb. 18, 1828, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and present at the defense of Fort Mercer, Red Bank, N. J .; m. (first) Elizabeth Rickey, b. in Bucks co., March 9, 1775, and a descendant of prominent families of that county. He married (second) -; had issue by both marriages, in all twelve children, some of whose descendants still reside in Phila .;

William; Sarah; Jane ;

Thomas;

SILAS, of whom presently.

SILAS CRISPIN, son of Silas and Martha, born in Lower Dublin township, May

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II, 1767, died there August 13, 1806, from lockjaw, caused by running a needle into his foot. He married, in 1788, Esther Dougherty, born 1867, died May 7, 1838.

Issue of Silas and Esther (Dougherty) Crispin:

Martha, b. March 18, 1789, d. April 3, 1817; m. James Simon;

BENJAMIN, b. 1792, of whom presently ;

Mary, d. unm. November 13, 1865;

Paul, m. Mary Lesher; d. Sept., 1847; resided many years on the Crispin homestead;

Silas, b. April 18, 1798, d. April 13, 1823;

Ann, b. Oct. 2, 1800, d. March 18, 1829; m. Michael Jacoby;

Hester, b. Aug. 31, 1803, d. Aug. 20, 1832.

HON. BENJAMIN CRISPIN, son of Silas and Esther (Dougherty) Crispin, born in 1792, on his father's estate known as "Bellevue" on the Welsh road, above Holmesburg, part of the Well Spring plantation, that had come down in the family from their distinguished ancestor, Capt. Thomas Holme, was educated at the Lower Dublin Academy, with which his family was so closely identified. In 1822 he was commissioned a Lieutenant of Pennsylvania Militia. In 1823 he was appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania as Justice of the Peace for townships of Byberry, Lower Dublin, and Oxford, Philadelphia county, and held that office until 1837. In 1828 he was appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Phila- delphia, Director of the Public Schools in his district. In 1837 he was elected a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and re-elected in 1838-39. In 1840 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1843 was made Speaker of the Senate, as the presiding officer of that body was then designated. When the whole of Philadelphia county was incorporated with the city, in 1854, Mr. Crispin was elected as the first Common Councilman from the Twenty-third Ward, then comprising the present Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-fifth and Forty-second Wards, and a part of the present Nineteenth Ward. He continued to manifest a deep interest in the schools, and on leaving council was again elected to the local school board. A new public school in Holmesburg has recently been named for him.

Benjamin Crispin was a founder of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, at Holmesburg, and served for twenty years as one of its vestrymen, and eight years as accounting warden. He also represented the parish in the Diocesan Con- vention in 1854-56-58-60. He was one of the originators of, and President of the Board of Trustees of the Holmesburg Athenaeum Association, and chairman of its building committee, which in 1850 built the town hall, called the Athenaeum, in which until 1906 was housed the Thomas Holme Library. In May, 1837, he was elected one of the Trustees of the Lower Dublin Academy, and in 1838 its Presi- dent, an office he held until his death twenty-six years later. He was the founder of the "Crispin Burial-Ground Community," and principally instrumental in obtaining a charter for the Crispin Cemetery Corporation, from the Legislature, while he was a State Senator, in 1840, thus perpetuating the title to the heirs of Thomas Holme, under the care of a Board of Trustees, of which he was Presi- dent.

Benjamin Crispin married, October 17, 1816, Maria, daughter of Amos and Elinor (Thomas) Foster, of Collegeville, (so named for the Lower Dublin Acad-

Benjamin Crispin Born 1792

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emy, located there), near Holmesburg. The Fosters came from New England, and the Thomas family from Wales.

Benjamin and Maria Crispin began their married life at "Bellevue," the old Crispin homestead on the Welsh road, but subsequently removed to a house on Main street, now Frankford avenue, corner of Mill street, Holmesburg, where they continued to reside the remainder of their lives; Benjamin Crispin dying there July 4, 1864, aged seventy-two years, and his widow, May 13, 1882, aged eighty-two years. Both were buried in the yard of Emmanuel Church, Holmes- burg.

Issue of Benjamin and Maria (Foster) Crispin:

Edward T. Crispin, b. Oct. 2, 1817, d. in Phila. March 29, 1873; m. Sarah Simmons, of Darby, Delaware co., Pa., now also dec .; children :

Emily Crispin, m. Martin Guyant, and had issue :

Kate Guyant; Edward Guyant;

Frank Guyant. Sarah Crispin, d. in early life.

William Crispin, b. July 29, 1819, d. at Holmesburg, May 12, 1869; was for some years a trustee of the Lower Dublin Academy; m. Mary Praul, now (1907) living, at the age of eighty-three years, dau. of John Praul, of Churchville, Bucks co .; two daughters :

Maria Louise Crispin, m. James C. Sickle, now dec .; d. March, 1869;

Catharine M. Crispin, m. William Clark, son of George and Anne ( Kearney) Clark, of Holmesburg, of whom some account is hereafter given; and an uncle of George S. Clark, who married a granddaughter of Hon. Benjamin Crispin, and was conspicuously active in the preservation of the old Burial-Ground, as heretofore shown :

William and Catharine M. (Crispin) Clark, had issue :

William Crispin Clark, m. Gertrude Wilson, of Frankford, Phila., and had issue :

Benjamin Crispin Clark; John Wilson Clark; William McIntyre Clark.

William Crispin Clark, father, d. in May, 1900.

John Clark, living, unm .;

Louis George Clark, living, unm .;

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRISPIN, b. Aug. 2, 1821; of whom presently ;

Eleanor Jane Crispin, b. Aug. 4, 1823, d. unm .;

Thomas Holme Crispin, b. June 22, 1824, d. unm .;

Silas Crispin, b. at Holmesburg, Sept. 9, 1828; educated at local schools, and the Phila. high school; appointed to U. S. Military Academy at West Point by Hon. Charles J. Ingersoll, M. C., and entered there July 1, 1846, graduated July 1, 1850, with distinc- tion, being third in his class; was appointed brevet, Second Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department of the U. S. A., and assigned to duty at the Arsenal at Watervliet, N. Y., where he remained two years, subsequently serving at the Arsenals at Allegheny, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., and the Leavenworth Ordnance Depot, Kan. In 1860 he became Assistant Inspector of Arsenals, and was promoted to Captain of Ordnance, Aug. 3, 1861, and served in that grade in the Civil War; was for a time on the staff of Gen. George B. McClellan; was also in charge of the New York Ordnance Agency; com- mandant of New York Arsenal, and President of the Ordnance Board for five years. He received successive brevets up to Colonel in the U. S. A. at the close of the Civil War; and promotion to actual rank as Major of Ordnance, on March 7, 1867; Lieu- tenant-Colonel, April 14, 1875; and Colonel on Aug. 23, 1881. After the War he was sent to England by the Government to study the making of ordnance. He was the inventor of a breech-loading cannon, called the "Crispin Gun," several of which were made by the government at a cost of $46,000 each. Col. Crispin was Commandant at the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, June, 1885, to June, 1886, and at the Benicita Arsenal, California, June, 1886, to shortly before his death, which occurred in New York City, Feb. 28, 1889. He was buried from the residence of his niece, Mrs. Cath- arine M. Clark, daughter of his brother, William Crispin, at Holmesburg, Philadelphia, March 8, 1889. The funeral services were held in Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal

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Church, the Rev. D. Caldwell Millett, D. D., rector of that parish officiating. The interment was made in the grounds connected with the church. Col. Crispin had never married;

Charles H. Crispin, m. (first) Elizabeth Gibbs, and had one daughter, Louise Crispin, who d. unm .; m. (second) her sister, Emma Gibbs, and had a son :

Franklin Gibbs Crispin, D. D. S., living in 1901, at 2029 North 12th street, Phila .; m. Lydia De Witt.

The two wives of Charles H. Crispin were from Bucks co., Pa.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRISPIN, third son of Benjamin and Maria (Foster) Crispin, was born in Holmesburg, Philadelphia, August 2, 1821, died at his resi- dence, 3258 Chestnut street, West Philadelphia, July 19, 1898. He was educated at the Lower Dublin Academy and other educational institutions, and became a member of the firm of Collins & Crispin, weighmasters, and later becoming the head of the firm, the name was changed to B. F. Crispin & Company, and he remained at its head the remainder of his life. The firm was the leading one of weighmasters in the city of Philadelphia, and Mr. Crispin was favorably known in commercial circles, as an able, energetic and upright business man. He con- tinued to reside in Holmesburg until 1873, when, having lost his first wife and a daughter, he removed to Camden, New Jersey, and resided there for a number of years, finally removing to West Philadelphia, where he died. While a resident of Holmesburg, he took an active interest in local affairs. He was for a number of years Secretary of the Frankford and Holmesburg Railroad Company ; was one of the founders of the Holmesburg Public Library and served as its President for a number of years. In 1871 he was elected a Trustee of the Lower Dublin Acad- emy, and in 1891 was made President of the Board, a position previously held by his father, and held that position to the time of his death, presiding at a banquet given in January, 1894, at the Green Tree Hotel, Holmesburg, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the Board. He was elected in 1872 a vestryman of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, an office also held by his father, whom he also succeeded as President of the Board of Trustees of the Crispin Cemetery Corporation, an account of which is given above, and served in that position until his death.

Benjamin Franklin Crispin married (first) June 29, 1845, Elizabeth R., daugh- ter of Robert and Sarah Glenn, of Holmesburg. She died March 31, 1873, and he married (second) Catharine Roe. His children were, however, all by first wife.

Issue of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth R. (Glenn) Crispin:

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRISPIN, JR., b. July 21, 1847, of whom presently;

Robert Glenn Crispin, b. at Holmesburg, Phila., Feb. 4. 1849; received his early educa- tion at the Episcopal Academy, Phila. 1872, went to Berwick, Pa., where he became connected with the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company. He became after a time a member of the firm of Bowman & Crispin. For several years he resided at Rupert, Pa. In 1902 he returned to Berwick and was elected Teller of the First Na- tional Bank of Berwick, which position he still occupies; m. Sept. 10, 1873, at Ber- wick, Frances M., b. at Berwick, Pa., Dec. 4, 1852, dau. of Seth B. and Louise F. (Doane) Bowman, of Berwick. Her mother was a great-granddaughter of Hannah Sharpless, who m. May 23, 1771, William Iddings, and this Hannah Sharpless was a great-granddaughter of John Sharpless, founder of the Sharpless family of Chester co., Pa., before referred to in these pages.

Robert Glenn and Frances M. (Bowman) Crispin had issue :

A son, b. April 12, 1875, d. the same day.

William Henry Crispin, b. in Phila., June II, 1851; m. May 27, 1875, Matilda, dau. of John Mitchell, of Phila., and they resided for a number of years in that city, but finally removed to Beverly, N. J., where they now reside; they have issue, one son :

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Franklin Mitchell Crispin, b. Phila., April 13, 1876; m. 1905, Emma Fowler, dau. of late Joseph D. Weeks, of Pittsburg, Pa., at one time editor of the "Iron Age." SARAH FRANCES CRISPIN, wife of Hon. George S. Clark; of whom later; Elizabeth Glenn Crispin, d. unm. June 2, 1873, aged about eighteen years ;

Maria Crispin, b. in Holmesburg, Phila .; m. William Emerson Smith, Esq., of Berwick, Pa., who d. Jan. 7, 1891, and his widow returned to near her old home, and is now (1907) living at Torresdale, Phila .; of their four children, three died in early child- hood; a daughter, Elizabeth Crispin Smith, is living unm. with her mother at Torres- dale, Phila., Pa .;

Charles Edwin Crispin, now living in Phila .;

Louis Crispin, b. at Holmesburg, Dec. 30, 1863; m. 1881, Susan Church, of Laurelton, Pa .; they lived at Laurelton, and then moved to New York City, where they now reside; issue : Charles Edwin Crispin, Jr., b. Laurelton, Pa., June 7, 1882.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRISPIN JR., eldest son of B. Franklin and Elizabeth R. (Glenn) Crispin, born in Holmesburg, Philadelphia, July 21, 1847, received his early education at the Lower Dublin Academy, later attending the high schools of Philadelphia. He started in business in Philadelphia in 1863, and was later em- ployed with his father in the firm of B. F. Crispin & Company, of Philadelphi .. In 1872 he removed to Berwick, Pennsylvania, and was elected superintendent of the Berwick Rolling Mill Company's plant there. He became from time to time interested in nearly all the leading enterprises of the town. In 1876 he was elected teller of the First National Bank of Berwick, in 1879 a director, in 1891 vice-president, and in 1894 president. In 1892 he was elected president and treasurer of the Berwick Electric Light Company, of which he was the founder. In 1894 he was elected president of the Mountain Grove Camp Meeting Association. The same year he was elected chairman of the Board of Managers of the Berwick Store Company, Limited, which position he held un- til March 1, 1899. In 1898 he was elected vice-president of the Legrange Light & Water Company, of Legrange, Illinois. In 1876 he was elected a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Berwick, and in 1895 president of the Board. In 1894 he was made trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was for ten years a member of the Board of Education of Berwick and served several terms as president. He died at his home in Berwick, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1905, and was buried in the Berwick Cemetery, July 6.

B. F. Crispin Jr., of Berwick, married, in 1874, Margaret, born November 19, 1853, daughter of Hon. Mordecai W. Jackson, one of the founders of the Jack- son & Woodin Manufacturing Company, now the Berwick District of the Ameri- can Car & Foundry Company. They had issue:

Mordecai Jackson Crispin, b. in Berwick, May 13, 1875; received his early education in Berwick high school; in Sept., 1892, entered Academic Course at Princeton Univ., and grad. in June, 1896, with degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was employed from 1896 to 1901 at First National Bank of Berwick and with Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company. Feb. I, 1901, he was elected director, secretary and treasurer of U. S. Metal & Mfg. Co. of 165 Broadway, New York City, and removed to that city. On Jan. 31, 1907, he was elected General Manager. On Sept. 23, 1899, he was elected a trustee of Crispin Cemetery Association. In Sept., 1903, he was elected a director of the First National Bank of Berwick, Pa. Jan. 14, 1908, was elected vice-pres., and July 12, 1909, was elected pres. of the bank. He m. June 7, 1900, in M. E. Church of Berwick, Marie, b. at Beach Haven, Pa., July 2, 1874, dau. of F. E. Brockway, Captain of Ar- tillery in Civil War; they had issue: Elizabeth Brockway Crispin, b. Jan. 3, 1905, in New York City.

Clarence Gearhart Crispin, b. at Berwick, Pa., Sept. 27, 1879; received his early educa- tion at Berwick high school, and Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa. In 1898 entered Cornell Univ., where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and grad. in June, 1902, with degree of Mechanical Engineer. He was employed by the

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Railway Steel Spring Co., New York City, during 1902-03, as assistant engineer, in the mechanical department. In June, 1903, he returned to Berwick to live and was elected vice-pres. of Berwick Water Company, and pres. of Subsidiary Companies of Berwick Water Company. In Sept., 1903, he was elected a director of the First National Bank of Berwick and in Jan., 1905, was made chairman of the Berwick Store Company, Limited. In Jan., 1908, elected Assist. District Manager of Berwick District of Amer- ican Car & Foundry Co .; in same year elected president of American Forged Nut Co .; in 1909 made vice-president of First National Bank, and in 1911 elected to presidency of Multiplex Manufacturing Company. He is a member of the Racquet Club of Phila. M. Oct. 19, 1904, Mae Lovely, b. March 1, 1882, at Berwick, Pa., dau. of Frederick H. Eaton, pres. of the American Car & Foundry Company, with executive offices, New York City. Mrs. Crispin received her early education at Miss Dana's school, Morris- town, N. J., and later attended the Merrill-Van Laer school in N. Y. City. They had issue : Benjamin Eaton Crispin, b. Oct. 10, 1905; Frederick Eaton Crispin, b. Sept. 17, 1906.

Helen Jean Crispin, b. Jan. 11, 1886, at Berwick, Pa .; received her early education at the Berwick high school, later at National Park Seminary, Washington, D. C., and at the Merrill-Van Laer School, New York City.

Sarah Frances Crispin, daughter of B. Franklin and Elizabeth R. (Glenn) Crispin, married, June 4, 1874, Hon. George S. Clark, of Holmesburg, Philadel- phia, and resides there. She was much interested in the preservation of the Crispin Burying-Ground, and at one time raised a fund, among her relatives, for fencing the ground. Her husband, George S. Clark, was a grandson of George Clark, the first of the family to settle at Holmesburg. George Clark, grandfather, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, 1797; married there, 1821, Anne Kearney, and in 1822 they came to America settling first in Philadelphia, but soon after- ward removing to Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Clark began his active career as a constructor of public works ; being one of the first to engage in railroad contracting in Pennsylvania, an occupation he pursued with much en- ergy and success for many years.

In 1840 Mr. Clark returned with his family to Philadelphia, and that year purchased of Joseph Gillingham the old Crispin homestead on the Welsh road, known as "Bellevue," about one mile above Holmesburg. This was part of the original tract taken up by Thomas Holmes, from whom it had descended through six generations to Hon. Benjamin Crispin, who sold it to Joseph Gillingham, who erected the present mansion thereon in 1828. Here George Clark resided until his death, in January, 1875. The homestead "Bellevue" was purchased from the other heirs, in 1879, by his grandson, George S. Clark, who had married Sarah Frances Crispin, whose ancestors had owned and occupied it for nearly a century and a half. George Clark Sr. was one of the constructors of the Welland Canal, Canada ; the Boston Water Works; the Croton Water Works (New York) ; the Pennsylvania Railroad; the Chestnut Street Bridge, Philadelphia; the Pennsyl- vania & Delaware Railroad; the Peach Bottom Railroad; the Frankford & Holmesburg Railroad, and many other important works.

He belonged to the Presbyterian church, and was a liberal contributor toward the erection of the Presbyterian church at Holmesburg, where he was a communi- cant and regular attendant. He was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, near Frank- ford. He had five sons in the Union Army during the Civil War, one of whom, George Clark Jr., of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, was killed in action in Virginia, in 1862. Another son, William Clark, married Catharine M., daugh- ter of William Crispin, of Holmesburg, as before stated, a granddaughter of Hon. Benjamin Crispin.

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Lieut .- Col. John Clark, eldest son of George and Anne (Kearney) Clark, born in Philadelphia, in 1822, was the father of George S. Clark, first above mentioned. Col. Clark, when he had completed his education, engaged with his father in the construction of public works, the first being the Welland Canal. He was a con- tractor on some of the largest public works in the country, notably the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, Hudson River Railroad, North Pennsylvania Railroad, Croton Water Works, of New York City, Boston Water Works, etc. After locating in Philadelphia, he served one term in the Common Council of that city from the old Twenty-third Ward. He was also a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, John Clark was unanimously elected captain of the company of volunteers raised in and around Holmesburg, which company was incorporated in the Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves ( Thirty- second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry), and went with that regiment to the front. He was in service for three years, taking part in the battles of Mechanics- ville, Gaines' Mills, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, and other engagements. Having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he com- manded his regiment at Antietam, and received at Manassas a slight wound, which was further aggravated by a severe fall from his horse, but he continued at the head of his regiment during the entire battle. In 1862 he was detached from his regiment and detailed by the War Department for service in the construction de- partment of the United States military railroads, and given charge of the Acquia & Fredericksburg railroad. He was later sent to Nashville, Tennessee, on similar service, and remained in the west until his three years term of service had expired. In 1866 he built the Warren & Franklin railroad, in the oil region of Pennsylvania. He was also engaged on the Lehigh & Susquehanna railroad, the Union railroad of Baltimore, etc. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1868-69, and was Speaker of the House in the latter year. Mr. Clark was a man of hand- some appearance and commanding presence, genial in manner and generous in dis- position. His war record was given in Major E. M. Woodward's "History of the 3d. Penna. Reserves," which contains a portrait of him, as does also, "The Bristol Pike," by Rev. S. F. Hotchkin. He was one of the original members of the Penn- sylvania Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

He was a trustee of Lower Dublin Academy, and a regular attendant at Em- manuel Church, Holmesburg. While engaged in the construction of the Welland Canal, Mr. Clark married Elizabeth M., only daughter of E. W. Stephenson, a prominent citizen of St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada. They resided for a short period in Boston, and West Needham, Massachusetts, Tarrytown, New York, and several years at West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1858 they removed to Holmes- burg, where he purchased the house at Main street, now Frankford avenue, and Mill street, now known as the Dr. Peale house, diagonally opposite Hon. Benja- min Crispin's residence. Here Col. Clark died May 30, 1872. He is buried in Emmanuel Churchyard, Holmesburg.

GEORGE STEPHENSON CLARK, son of Col. John and Elizabeth M. (Stephenson) Clark, born January 3, 1850, at St. Catharine's, Canada, was but eight years of age when his parents took up their residence in Holmesburg. He was educated at Prof. Wall's Classical School, Holmesburg, at Rev. Dr. T. H. Wells's Boarding School, Andalusia, Bucks county, the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, and at the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania. His legal preceptor was

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David W. Sellers, Esq., and he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, in 1871. Mr. Clark represented the Twenty-third Legislature District, Pennsylvania Legis- lature, in 1881-83. He has been a vestryman of Emmanuel Church, a trustee of the Lower Dublin Academy, a trustee of the Holmesburg Athenaeum Association, all of which offices might almost be said to be hereditary in his own and his wife's families. He is also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. As before stated George S. Clark married, June 4, 1874, Sarah Frances Crispin, and as shown in the preceding pages took an active part in the preservation of the old Crispin Burial-Ground. In 1879 he purchased of the heirs of his grandfather, "Bellevue," the old Crispin homestead on the Welsh road, so long the residence of his wife's ancestors, and retained it until 1884. He afterwards purchased the handsome residence surrounded by extensive grounds at Decatur street and Dela- ware avenue, Holmesburg, built by Andreas Hartel. The house originally faced Delaware avenue, but was moved to face Decatur street.

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 51

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 710

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710