Columbia-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....CRUIKSHANK, William Y. 1849 - 
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  WILLIAM Y. CRUIKSHANK,* the popular and efficient superintendent of the casting
  department of the Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, is a skilled mechanic,
  who has the supervision of the work of 200 men. He was born in Pottsville,
  Schuylkill County, Pa., and is a son of James and Margaret (McFarland) Cruikshank.
  
    James Cruikshank, the father of our subject, was a molder by trade, and
  followed it during his entire life. He had fifty years' experience in that line
  of work and, being an apt and conscientious worker, he acquired a great deal of
  skill. He and Margaret McFarland took the matrimonial vows and they became the
  parents of a family of children, one of whom is William Y., the subject of this
  personal history. Mrs. Cruikshank closed her eyes in final sleep at the age of
  forty-seven years, and her husband died at the age of seventy-three years.
  
    William Y. Cruikshank received his education in the common schools, after
  which he learned the trade of a molder with his father, and soon after was
  appointed superintendent of the Lebanon Manufacturing Company of Lebanon. In
  1894 he was called to his present position as superintendent of the casting
  department of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, which, when running
  regularly, uses from 150 to 200 tons of pig iron daily. Our subject has won the
  confidence of his employers, who regard him as one of the most reliable and
  faithful men in their employ. He always pays the strictest attention to his
  business duties, and in private life he is always looked upon with favor and is
  a highly respected citizen.
  
     Mr. Cruikshank was united in marriage to Jennie Hunter, a daughter of
  Alexander Hunter, and they are the proud parents of six children, as follows:
  William H., deceased; Alexander, a molder by trade; Mary, who married J. C.
  Lynn; James K. and John C., twins, who have just graduated from Berwick High
  School; and Margaret, deceased. In religious attachments the members of the
  family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Socially our subject is a
  Mason.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  * The information contained in this biography was supplied by the subject of
  this sketch. A type-set copy of the biography was sent to the subject to be
  proof-read, but the subject did not edit and return the copy, so this biography
  may contain typographical errors.
  
    Extracted from:
      
      Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
      Published by 
      Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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