"... he came to Otsego County, N. Y., when he was yet in his teens; for twenty years he was in the hotel business and for a few years was engaged in operating a mill, but for the greater part of his life he was a farmer; he was a familiar figure in the traveling public and was closely identified with the interests of the township and village of Worcester, N. Y. In politics, he was a Whig and later a Republican. In early life he was well known as an old stage driver running between Richmondville and Oneonta and later between Richmondville and Worcester, N. Y. His wife survived him and died at the home of her son, Hamilton Russ in Wocester. She and her husband were members of the Second Congregational Church." [Caroline (Watkins) Crippen, Silas Crippen and His Descendants, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York), Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 257-258]
"... he came to Otsego County, N. Y., when he was yet in his teens; for twenty years he was in the hotel business and for a few years was engaged in operating a mill, but for the greater part of his life he was a farmer; he was a familiar figure in the traveling public and was closely identified with the interests of the township and village of Worcester, N. Y. In politics, he was a Whig and later a Republican. In early life he was well known as an old stage driver running between Richmondville and Oneonta and later between Richmondville and Worcester, N. Y. His wife survived him and died at the home of her son, Hamilton Russ in Wocester. She and her husband were members of the Second Congregational Church." [Caroline (Watkins) Crippen, Silas Crippen and His Descendants, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York), Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 257-258]
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