Husband Philip B. Crider 1
Born: 9 Jan 1822 - Lycoming (later Clinton) Co, PA 1
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Father: William Crider (Abt 1786-1880) 1
Mother: Mary Walker ( - ) 1
Marriage: 1844 2
Wife Catherine Miller 2
Born: 15 Aug 1829 - Milton, Northumberland Co, PA
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Died: 26 Sep 1885
Buried: - Cedar Hill Cemetery, Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA
Father: John Miller ( - ) 2
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Children
1 M Fountain W. Crider 2 4
AKA: P. W. Crider 3
Born: 7 Sep 1845 - near Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA 5
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Spouse: Mary Adeline Sullivan (1845-1879) 6
Marr: 21 Jul 1868 - Elmwood, IL 6
Spouse: Rebecca Jane North (1850- ) 3 4 6
Marr: 14 Dec 1882 6
2 M Isaac S. Crider 2
Born: 31 Aug 1847 2
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Died: 17 Nov 1877 - Clinton Co, PA 2
Cause of Death: Hunting accident
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3 F Josephine H. Crider 2
Born: 22 Aug 1850 2
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Died: 4 May 1870 2
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General Notes: Husband - Philip B. Crider
The country being then new, and his parents poor, he had very meager school privileges, and early in life started to be self-supporting. He learned the business of manufacturing woolen goods in the employ of John Rich and John Hillard, at their factory in the western part of the town of Pine Creek, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, and remained with them some thirteen years. He then purchased the old family homestead, where he farmed for several years, when he became identified with the lumbering interests of Centre County, operating first between the Moshannon creeks, where he was engaged with Samuel Crist, of Lock Haven, then the most extensive lumber operator in the county, owning upward of fourteen thousand acres of good pine timber lands. He was so occupied several years, when he began manufacturing lumber for the Snow Shoe Railroad Company. Following this, Mr. Crist and himself purchased the plant and stock of the firm of Holmes & Wigton, and the new firm carried on extensive operations in the same line for a period of years. Mr. Crider was next associated with Gen. Beaver, Edward Humes and others of Bellefonte, who had formed a company and controlled several thousand acres of timber land in Clearfield County, where he met with a severe accident, receiving a bad cut in one of his limbs by an awkward workman, from which he was disabled for two or three years. This led him to make a change in his business affairs, resulting in an exchange of business interests between him and Mr. Crist, which subsequently took him to Snow Shoe, where for many years himself and his son, F. W. Crider, were extensive lumber operators, also having mills and yards in other localities. About 1880 they made the borough of Bellefonte their headquarters and principal point of operations. Their plant, which was located at the corner of Race and Lamb streets, together with mills in the woods, was one of the largest and best equipped in that section of Pennsylvania. The planing mills, lumber shedding, and other necessary buildings in all covered an area of five acres, while in the various departments of the business from fifty to one hundred hands were employed, and the proprietors availed themselves of every late and meritorious device in the way of machinery and appliances calculated to insure rapid and perfect production. The firm manufactured and dealt largely in white pine, yellow pine, hard wood and hemlock lumber, lath, pailing and and shingles, window and door frames, sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, stair work, and every description of mill work and building material as well as butchers' skewers. The firm of P. B. Crider & Son operated mills and had large lumber interests in a number of the neighboring counties, which placed them in the front rank of the manufacturers of lumber in that section, contributing to the commercial importance of those various places.
General Notes: Wife - Catherine Miller
from the Crider neighborhood on Chatham run, Clinton Co, PA