OBIT: Johann Frederick CRISSMAN, 1826, Tyrone Township, Huntingdon County, PA

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JOHANN FREDERICK CRISSMAN 

Died on Wednesday the 26th of April, Mr. Frederick Crissman of Tyrone 
township in this county, at the advanced age of 99 yrs and two months.  
Mr. Crissman was one of the most early settlers of this county, and was 
highly esteemed as a worthy citizen and judicious agriculturalist.  It 
is in the recollect of many persons that the supplies of merchandise, 
salt, iron &c. for the more western parts of the state and the then 
newly settled parts of Virginia, were transported across the Allegheny 
mountains on pack-horses;  and that at certain seasons of the year, 
long trains of these animals were to be seen winding their course along 
the narrow road or horse path that the formed the only line of 
communication between the east and the west, loaded with packages of 
such size and dimensions as were best adapted to that unfavorable mode 
of transportation.  It is therefore a circumstance not unworthy of 
observation in the life of Mr. Crissman, that on the enlargement & 
improvement of the road, he was the first person that conducted a wagon 
or team over the Allegheny and succeeding mountains in the conveyance 
of a load of merchandise to Pittsburg.

Republican Advocate, May 6, 1826