Union County, SD Biographies.....Crumrine, S. July 4, 1867 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

S. CRUMRINE. Prominent among the residents of Brule township who are engaged in the
pursuit of agriculture, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He has lived
in Union county since July 4, 1867, when he entered 160 acres of land, and with the
exception of eight years spent in Elk Point, where he kept a feed-store, the farm he
homesteaded, and 'on which he built a log cabin with sod roof, has been his
residence.
Mr. Crumrine was born in Harrison county, Ohio, January 18, 1821, and he is a son of
John and Catherine (Bowers) Crumrine, both natives of Pennsylvania. George Crumrine,
father of John Crumrine, was a German, and probably the founder of his family in
this country. Barney Bowers, Mrs. Crumrine’s father, was also a native of Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Crumrine are now deceased, both having died in Ohio. The subject of
this biography passed his early life in the Buckeye state, and there, during the
winter terms of the subscription schools, he obtained what education was afforded.
He grew to manhood in his native state, and there resided till 1857, when he went to
Blackford county, Ind., and took up land, on which he lived three years, The ague
drove him out, in 1i860, and he located that year in Carroll county, Mo., where he
bought land and settled, staying there during the Civil war. During his residence in
Missouri, while the war was in progress, he was a member of the “Home Guards,” an
organization of loyal citizens, and he bore a prominent part during the stirring
days of that period. On one occasion he was initiated into the first degree of the
“Knights of the Golden Circle,” an organization favoring the secession movement, and
he was thus able to procure much information which was of great benefit to the
federal cause. He was a man of great nerve and bravery, and carried information to
the government authorities on many a perilous journey. In March, 1863, he left
Missouri, the rebel element there having become acquainted with his Union
sentiments, and Col. Hale, his commanding officer, advised him to leave the state
and save his life. His land - 320 acres - he lost, not caring to claim it at the
hands of men who would gladly have plunged a knife through his heart. From Missouri
he wandered to Kansas, and for a few years was in Illinois, also, before coming to
Dakota territory. Since coming to Union county, through his own efforts he has been
eminently successful. When he arrived here he was poor, paying $45, all the money he
had, for a cow. Then the grasshoppers for several years took the fruit of his labor,
but through all the hard luck he never lost heart; he was frugal and industrious,
and has prospered accordingly, and now is in good circumstances, surrounded by all
the comforts of life.

Mr. Crumrine was married in Ohio when he was twenty-three years of age - in 1844 - 
to Miss Frances Kerr, and they have been blessed with eight children, viz.: Ezra,
John, Thomas, Andrew, Alvina and Greene, living; and Mary A. and Wesley, deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Crumrine are religious people, he belonging to the Methodist Episcopal
church and she a Congregationalist, and both take an active interest in all church
matters. Politically, he started in life a Whig, was subsequently a Republican, and
is now a Populist. He has held only school offices during his residence in Union
county, having no desire to enter active political life. He is also a member of the
Masonic fraternity, Elk Point lodge, master degree.


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