Husband Elmer R. Deems 1 2
Born: 16 Jan 1848 or 1849 - West Pike Run Twp, Washington Co, PA 2 3
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Father: George Deems (1819-Abt 1897) 2 4
Mother: Eliza Ann Sharp (Abt 1825-1890) 3
Marriage: 1872 2 3
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Wife Mary Emma Crawford 2 5
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Father: James Sidwell Crawford (1809-1869) 6
Mother: Sarah Hawkins (1811-1883) 7
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1 F Sarah C. Deems 2 3
Born: 1877 - Shenandoah Valley, VA 3
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2 M Ernest A. Deems 2 3
Born: 1887 3
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General Notes: Husband - Elmer R. Deems
He received a common-school education; attended Southwestern State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania, 1865, 1866, and Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1868; was a successful teacher in the public schools for several years, but after his marriage, in 1872, followed the occupation of a farmer. He was too young to participate in the Civil war, but when there was a call for State troops, after the burning of Chambersburg, in 1864, he enlisted in Capt. Castner's company, being then fifteen years of age, but saw no service.
He moved to the Shenandoah Valley in 1875, but remained only two years, owing to the prejudice of the natives to Northern people. When he returned he located in West Pike Run township, and later moved to East Bethlehem township, where, in 1880, he built a comfortable home.
He was always an active Republican, and during the Presidential campaign of 1884 he organized the first Blaine and Logan club in the county. The East Bethlehem Cavalry, consisting of thirty-three members, being uniformed and equipped by August 1, it was during the campaign and as captain of this company, at Fredericktown, on the evening of September 23, he was brutally attacked by a desperate Democrat tough, and although coming out victorious he received an almost fatal wound, which has rendered him incapable of performing manual labor. Thus compelled to abandon his occupation as a farmer, he entered the political arena, and in June, 1887, received the nomination for prothonotary, only lacking two votes of being nominated on first ballot, and in November was elected over W. A. Cracraft, the Democrat nominee, by a majority of 1,401. He has been an efficient and accommodating officer; and at the meeting of the Republican convention, in June, 1890, unanimously re-nominated without opposition, and was re-elected by an appreciative public. Since his election to the office of prothonotary, he lived in the borough of Washington, on East Maiden street. Mr. Deems was a member of I. O. O. F., O. U. A. M., the F. & A. M. and Jacques De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, and was a member of the M. E. Church.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Emma Crawford
from East Bethlehem Twp, Washington Co, PA