Biographical Sketch of John F. Crutcher, Greene County, Missouri,
North Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Is a son of Dr. A. L. Crutcher, both the doctor and wife being natives
of Kentucky.  In 1862 the family moved to Indiana and lived there till 
1868, when they moved to Missouri.  They first stopped at Leasburg, but
two years latter moved to St. James, remaining there till the spring of
1873, then moving to Springfield, this county.  Dr. Crutcher died, 
leaving a wife, four sons (John F., Leonidas C., William C. and Luke
F.) and one daughter (Mollie), wife of S. L. McLane, of the St. Louis &
San Francisco R.R.  Dr. Crutcher had been forced to sacrifice his prop-
erty in Kentucky owing to war troubles.  The expense of moving his 
family a great distance, left him, on reaching Springfield, with very 
small means.  The sons began railroading very young, and worked their 
way up to positions of conductors on the road, and acquired means suff-
icient to place themselves in easy circumstances.  The subject of this
sketch was born November 10, 1853.  He commenced "braking" on the rail-
road in 1872, and four years subsequent accepted the position of 
baggage master, and in 1879 was promoted to a conductorship on the St.
L. & S. F.  December 24th, 1878, he married Miss Catharine Jones, of
Anderson County, Kentucky.  They have one child, Edgar L., born October
30, 1880.  Mr. Crutcher is senior conductor of Ozark Lodge No. 30, 
Order of Railway Conductors, and is also a member of Springfield lodge,
No. 218, I. O. O. F.

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