Thomas E. Crutcher
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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Thomas E. Crutcher, an attorney of Helena, is a native of 
Kentucky, born February 22, 1839 in Hardin County. 
His ancestors emigrated from Wales to the colony of Virginia in 
the seventeenth century. James Crutcher, the great-grandfather 
of the subject of our sketch, emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky, 
shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, two of his sons, 
Anthony and John having fought in that war. John,the younger of 
the two, lived to the age of ninety-one and is well remembered by 
our subject. Isaac,one of the younger sons of James Crutcher and 
the grandfather of Thomas E. was born in Kentucky as was also
his son, Burr H., the father of Thomas E. 

His mother, who name before marriage was Hester Brandenburg, was 
a descendant of the noble family of that name in Germany. Her 
ancestors were also early settlers in Virginia, whence the family 
removed to Kentucky. The subject of our sketch was the sixth of 
eleven children born to Burr H. Crutcher and Hester, only five of 
whom are now living. His mother died in the fall of 1887, aged 
seventy-nine years. His father is still living at the age of 
eighty-nine.

Our subject was reared to manhood in his native state, prepared 
for college under a private tutor and graduated at Center College 
in his native state in the class of 1861, just at the breaking 
out of the great Civil War.

His sympathies from the beginning were strongly with the South, 
but out of deference to the wishes of hisfather, who was an 
intense Unionist, he refrained from taking part in the struggle 
until 1864, becoming a member of Cowan's Mississippi Battery and 
giving his support to the Southern cause until the conflict was 
ended. Among the engagements in which he participated were those 
of Franklin and Nashville, escaping without a wound.

After the war he resumed the study of law, which he had begun 
previous to his enlistment in the army and in1867 was admitted 
to the bar, having been pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in
1866 and restored to all civil and political rights.

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