BIO: Edward CROUCH, 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, pages 193-194. 
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  CROUCH, EDWARD, son of Col. James Crouch, was born at Walnut Hill, in 
Paxtang, November 9, 1764.  He was a merchant by occupation.  At the 
age of seventeen he enlisted in the army of the Revolution, and 
commanded a company in the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794.  He served as 
a member of the House of Representatives from 1804 to 1806, and was a 
presidential elector in 1813.  Governor Snyder appointed him one of the 
associate judges of the county of Dauphin April 16, 1813, but he 
resigned upon his election to the Thirteenth United States Congress.  
He died on the 2d day of February, 1827, and is buried in Paxtang 
graveyard.  "In private life he was an able and an honest man," wrote 
one of his contemporaries, and the record of his life shows him to have 
been a gentleman of uprightness of character, and as honorable as he 
was influential.  Mr. Crouch married, first, Margaret Potter, born 
1775; died February 7, 1797; daughter of Gen. James Potter of the 
Revolution.  Their only daughter Mary, born October 23, 1791; died 
October 27, 1846; married Benjamin Jordan, who succeeded to the estate 
of Walnut Hill.  He married, secondly, Rachel Bailey, born April 16, 
1782; died March 2, 1857.