BIO:  Daniel CROUSE, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 418-421

DANIEL CROUSE (deceased) was a native of Germany Township, and a son of John 
Crouse, a native of Lancaster County, Penn., who died August 30, 1807, and is 
buried at Christ Church.  Daniel was married to Barbara Laudabaugh, November 8, 
1832.  He was a tanner by trade, and carried on the business for over forty 
years in Littlestown, accumulating a fortune of upward of $75,000.  He was a 
very powerful man, physically, retaining his strength and activity to the last.  
During the later years of his life he had retired from business, and passed much 
of his time in hunting and fishing with his old associates and comrades, who, 
like him, have all passed away, and are spoken of elsewhere in this volume.  Mr. 
Crouse was an ardent Republican and a warm supporter of the Union cause during 
the Rebellion.  He was a member of the Reformed Church, and one of the most 
prominent and active business men of his day - a striking example of what is 
generally termed a “self-made man.”  Beginning life with scarcely any money, by 
frugality and perseverance he left a large fortune to posterity.  He helped more 
than one person to get a home, and him they, whom he so befriended, or their 
children or grandchildren, have to thank for his beneficence.  He took an active 
part in building up and improving the town, and also the Littlestown Railroad, 
and was a director in the Littlestown Savings Institution at the time of his 
death.  He died November 25, 1880, at the age of seventy-five years, having nine 
children - four sons and three daughters living, and all married and well to do 
in life.  He was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, and a large monument, erected 
at a cost of $800, marks his grave.