John Cresswell and Marilla Burr

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Husband John Cresswell ¹

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            AKA: John Creswell 2
           Born: 28 Dec 1794 - West Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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           Died: 23 Jun 1881 - Petersburg, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Cresswell (      -1807) 3
         Mother: Mary Graffius (      -Abt 1832) 3

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       Marriage: 29 Oct 1835 1

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Mytinger (1789-1832) 1 2 - 27 Aug 1816 - Alexandria, Huntingdon Co, PA 1

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Wife Marilla Burr ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 23 Oct 1878 1
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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - John Cresswell

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He learned the trade of chair-making, and carried on the business in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, up to about the year 1832. He served many years as a justice of the peace, and in 1822 was elected county commissioner. Afterward he became a contractor on the Wabash Canal, in the State of Indiana. In January, 1839, he was appointed by Governor Porter prothonotary, and served until a successor was chosen at the following October election. Subsequently he was appointed collector of tolls on the canal at Huntingdon, to which he moved his family and remained there several years. In 1847 he commenced the mercantile business at Manor Hill. In 1853, Petersburg became his residence, where, with his son George M., under the firm-name of John Cresswell & Son, he continued until his death to take an interest in the mercantile and grain trade. In his earlier years he took an active interest in military affairs, and from service in the militia received the appellation "colonel," a designation by which he was universally known. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and for many years was a prominent and useful member of his congregation. Politically he was always a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for James Monroe, in 1816, and the last for Winfield S. Hancock, in 1880. He was a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 178, A. Y. M., at Huntingdon, and although the lodge was disbanded during anti-Masonic times, he never ceased his interest in the work of the craft.

1 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 310.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 874.

3 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 310, 417.