BIO: Richard Moore CRAIN, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 204.
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  CRAIN, RICHARD MOORE, was born in November, 1777, in Hanover 
township, Lancaster county, Pa.; died Friday, September 17, 1852, in 
Harrisburg, Pa.  He received a fair education and was brought up on his 
father's farm.  He became quite prominent in public affairs the first 
decade of this century, and during the incumbency of Gen. Andrew Porter 
as surveyor general of Pennsylvania, Mr. Crain received the appointment 
of deputy secretary of the Land Office, a position he acceptably filled 
through all the changes of administration for forty years, until the 
advent of Governor Ritner, when he was displaced.  He then retired to 
his farm in Cumberland county, from which district he was sent a 
delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1837, in which he was a 
leading spirit.  During the war of 1812-14 he commanded a company of 
volunteers from Harrisburg, and was subsequently commissioned colonel 
of the Pennsylvania militia.  Colonel Crain married, in 1802, Elizabeth 
Whitehill, born 1771; died October 2, 1848; daughter of Robert 
Whitehill and Eleanor Read.