BIO: Samuel C. Crawford, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLV.

        EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF CAMP HILL.

467  EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  SAMUEL C. CRAWFORD, painter, Camp Hill, has lived eight years in Camp 
Hill, East Pennsborough Township, carrying on the business of house 
painting.  He was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1838.  His 
father, William Crawford, a farmer, and his mother, Elizabeth 
(Cunningham) Crawford, were also natives of Lancaster.  His 
grandfather, Thomas Crawford, immigrated to this country from Cork, 
Ireland, many years ago, and bought a farm in Lancaster County, near 
Good Hope Furnace, where his family were all born, and where he himself 
died.  They were John, James, Robert, Thomas, William, David, Jane, 
Eliza and Maggie.  William, father of Samuel C. Crawford, lived on the 
farm which he managed until his death; he died in 1840, aged thirty-
seven.  His widow still survives him.  They had three sons:  Jeremiah, 
William, and Samuel C., the only survivor.  He was less than two years 
of age when his father died, but he continued to live on another farm, 
with strangers, until he was fourteen, when he went to Lancaster, 
Penn., to learn the trade of a painter.  He served three years and 
removed to Columbia, where he worked until 1856; thence he went to 
Cross Creek and remained a year; then to West Middleton, and later to 
New Orleans.  At the outbreak of the Rebellion he was in Nashville, 
Tenn., where he enlisted in the Union Army, and served until the close 
of the war, when he returned to Pennsylvania, arriving in Harrisburg in 
August, 1865, and there he stayed nine years.  In September, 1870, he 
was married to Miss Sarah A., daughter of John Stouffer, of Oysters' 
Point.  They have had four children:  Maggie W. (deceased), Albert B., 
Philip S. and Saidee E.  Mr. and Mrs. Crawford are members of the 
Church of God, in Camp Hill.  He is an intelligent gentleman, whose 
travels have enlarged his ideas, and he bears, among all who know him, 
an admirable reputation.