Dated 15 September 1910. Taken at Rogersville, Center Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Survivors of 85th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Civil War 1861-65.

Dated 15 September 1910. Taken at Rogersville, Center Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Survivors of 85th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Civil War 1861-65.

FRONT ROW - Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified, Eli Crumrine who died on his way home from this reunion, Boyd Crumrine, Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified, Samuel Thompson with light colored hat on knee [1839-1925], Unidentified, Unidentified, Oscar Sproul holding unidentified child, Unidentified.

Historical Magazine of Monongahela, 1908

The Daily Notes
CANONSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
Monday, August 21, 1916
Page 1

Boyd Crumrine - Historian of Washington Co PA

This Photo - Top of his Gravestone Memorial - People that know of his History leave coins on his Gravestone.


In 1871 Mr. Crumrine compiled the "Rules of Court of Washington County;" in 1872-75 he prepared "The Pittsburgh Reports," legal cases of the several State courts not elsewhere reported, in three volumes octavo. In 1878 he published "Omnium Gatherum, or Notes of Cases for the Lawyer's Pocket and Counsel Table," of which the edition is now exhausted.. In 1882 he composed a large part and edited the whole of "The History of Washington County" a quarto of one thousand pages, small type, published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia.

Mr. Crumrine is a Republican in politics, but has never sought political preferment. His tastes are altogether literary and professional. He was given the degree of Master of Arts by Jefferson College in 1863. From 1865 to 1868 He was district attorney for Washington county, and in 1870 was appointed deputy marshal of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, to compile the Social Statistics of that district for the Ninth Census. After this temporary employment outside of his profession, in matters in which he had great interest, he continued his work to his practice until April, 1887, when, without solicitation on his part, he was appointed, by Governor Beaver, State reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and, accepting the appointment as one suited to his tastes and experience, he had published at the end of his term in May, 1892, thirty-one volumes of Pennsylvania State reports, which seem to meet with the approval of the bench and bar of the State. Secretary of State Charles W. Stone, in response to a letter concerning these reports, wrote in 1889 as follows: " Mr. Crumrine is making a model reporter, and his work is held in very high estimation by the bench and bar throughout the State. He is improving the style and method of reporting, and is exceedingly faithful ant painstaking in his work. The profession generally appreciates this fact, and also the promptness in the publication of his reports and their improved typographical execution. You can not speak too highly of his official efficiency." He has also been the recipient of many other well merited compliments, written and verbal, from members of both bench and bar, of all phases of politics, which it would be superfluous to here reiterate. Indefatigable in his work, he is a lover of it. In the winter of 1891-92, when Mr. Crumrine's name was presented to President Harrison for an appointment as United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, among many letters in his favor from judges and lawyers of the State, the justices of the Supreme Court joined in a letter to the President which was such as to make Mr. Crumrine feel more that comfortable, even when He failed to receive the desired appointment. At the general election in November, 1891, he was chosen a member of the constitutional convention, provided for by the act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania passed June 19, 1891. However, a majority of the electors of the State voting against the convention, it was not held. At the date of this writing his name is being mentioned as a candidate for the office of Judge of the Supreme Court.

On the day following that on which he was made Bachelor of Arts, Mr. Crumrine was married to Miss Harriet J., daughter of George A. and Jane B. Kirk, and they have had four children: Ernest Ethelbert, Louisa Celeste, Roland Thompson and Hattie J. Of these, Ernest E. is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, and is partner in his father's law office; his wife is Gertrude, the daughter of Rev. Dr. J. F. Magill, of Fairfield, Iowa, and they have one child, a son. Louisa was educated at the Washington Female Seminary, and is now the wife of J. P. Pattersoti, Esq., of the Pittsburgh bar; they have one child, a daughter. Roland T. and Hattie J. both died young. Mr. Crumrine is stalwart in form, turning the scales at over two hundred pounds, and is as fine a specimen of physical manhood as the eye needs wish to look upon.

The foregoing sketch is for the most part compiled from "A Biographical Album of Prominent Pennsylvanians," published at Philadelphia in 1889.



Text taken from page 206 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).