Husband Hon. Benjamin Crispin 1
Born: 1792 - Philadelphia Co, PA 1
Christened:
Died: 4 Jul 1864 - Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA 2
Buried: - Emmanuel Church, Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA
Father: Silas Crispin (1767-1806) 3
Mother: Esther Dougherty (1767-1838) 1
Marriage: 17 Oct 1816 1
Wife Maria Foster 1
Born: Abt 1800
Christened:
Died: 13 May 1882 2
Buried: - Emmanuel Church, Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA
Father: Amos Foster ( - ) 1
Mother: Elinor Thomas ( - ) 1
Children
1 M Edward T. Crispin 2
Born: 2 Oct 1817 2
Christened:
Died: 29 Mar 1873 - Philadelphia, PA 2
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah Simmons ( - ) 2
2 M William Crispin 2
Born: 29 Jul 1819 2
Christened:
Died: 12 May 1869 - Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA 2
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Praul (Abt 1824-Aft 1907) 2
3 M Benjamin Franklin Crispin 2
Born: 2 Aug 1821 - Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA 2
Christened:
Died: 19 Jul 1898 - West Philadelphia, PA 4
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth R. Glenn ( -1873) 4
Marr: 29 Jun 1845 4
Spouse: Catharine Roe ( - ) 4
4 F Eleanor Jane Crispin 2
Born: 4 Aug 1823 2
Christened:
Died: Bef 1907
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M Thomas Holme Crispin 2
Born: 22 Jun 1824 2
Christened:
Died: Bef 1907
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M Col. Silas Crispin 2
Born: 9 Sep 1828 - Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA 2
Christened:
Died: 28 Feb 1889 - New York City, NY 2
Buried: 8 Mar 1889 - Emmanuel Church, Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA 2
Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 M Charles H. Crispin 4
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Gibbs ( - ) 4
Spouse: Emma Gibbs ( - ) 4
General Notes: Husband - Hon. Benjamin Crispin
He was born on his father's estate known as "Bellevue" on the Welsh road, above Holmesburg, part of the Well Spring plantation, that had come down in the family from their distinguished ancestor, Capt. Thomas Holme. He was educated at the Lower Dublin Academy, with which his family was so closely identified. In 1822 he was commissioned a Lieutenant of Pennsylvania Militia. In 1823 he was appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania as Justice of the Peace for townships of Byberry, Lower Dublin, and Oxford, Philadelphia county, and held that office until 1837. In 1828 he was appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, Director of the Public Schools in his district. In 1837 he was elected a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and re-elected in 1838-39. In 1840 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1843 was made Speaker of the Senate, as the presiding officer of that body was then designated. When the whole of Philadelphia county was incorporated with the city, in 1854, Mr. Crispin was elected as the first Common Councilman from the Twenty-third Ward, then comprising what was later the Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-fifth and Forty-second Wards, and a part of the even later Nineteenth Ward. He continued to manifest a deep interest in the schools, and on leaving council was again elected to the local school board. A new public school in Holmesburg was later named for him.
Benjamin Crispin was a founder of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church at Holmesburg, and served for twenty years as one of its vestrymen, and eight years as accounting warden. He also represented the parish in the Diocesan Convention in 1854-56-58-60. He was one of the originators of, and President of the Board of Trustees of the Holmesburg Athenaeum Association, and chairman of its building committee, which in 1850 built the town hall, called the Athenaeum, in which until 1906 was housed the Thomas Holme Library. In May, 1837, he was elected one of the Trustees of the Lower Dublin Academy, and in 1838 its President, an office he held until his death twenty-six years later. He was the founder of the "Crispin Burial-Ground Community," and principally instrumental in obtaining a charter for the Crispin Cemetery Corporation, from the Legislature, while he was a State Senator, in 1840, thus perpetuating the title to the heirs of Thomas Holme, under the care of a Board of Trustees, of which he was President.
He and his wife began their married life at "Bellevue," the old Crispin homestead on the Welsh road, but subsequently removed to a house on Main street, later Frankford avenue, corner of Mill street, Holmesburg, where they continued to reside the remainder of their lives.