Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Stephen S. Crump and Agnes M. Risher




Husband Stephen S. Crump 1 2 3

            AKA: L. H. Crump 4
           Born: 6 Nov 1830 - near Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 1912 3
         Buried: 


         Father: John Crump (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Ruth Robinson (      -      ) 5


       Marriage: 3 Jun 1856 6



Wife Agnes M. Risher 3 6 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1894 3
         Buried: 


         Father: John C. Risher (1815-1889) 6 8 9
         Mother: Nancy Denny McClure (1808-1875) 1 10




Children

General Notes: Husband - Stephen S. Crump


He was reared in Ohio County, West Virginia, until his sixteenth year, attending the common schools of that county, and in 1847 located in Pittsburgh, where he was employed as clerk in the oyster house of Holt & Maltby for two years. Then he went to McKeesport, where he clerked in a general store until 1852, when he went to Dravosburg, accepting a position in the store of John F. Dravos, in whose employ he remained until 1863. In that year he formed a partnership with his father-in-law, J. C. Risher, and began operating the Amity coal mines under the firm name of J. C. Risher & Co. By the death of Mr. Risher in 1899 the firm was dissolved, but the business was continued by Mr. Crump as S. S. Crump & Co. until 1899, when it was sold to the Monongahela River consolidated coal and coke company. While operating the Amity mines, Mr. Crump did an extensive and profitable business, mining some 2,500,000 bushels of coal annually, which he shipped to Cincinnati, Louisville and New Orleans. He also shipped a great deal of coal for other mines, and during this period conducted a general store at Dravosburg. In 1903 the State bank of Dravosburg was organized, with a capital of $75,000. Mr. Crump was elected president. During his residence at Dravosburg he served many years as post-master under the different administrations, and when the borough of Dravosburg was incorporated in 1903, was elected its first burgess. He was vice-president of the Tradesmen's National bank of Pittsburg, president of the Dravosburg bridge company, director in the McKeesport title and trust company, treasurer of the Richland cemetery company, and trustee of the J. C. Risher estate. [MAC i, 552]

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 725.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 522.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1203.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1748.

5 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 552.

6 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 553.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 296.

8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 296, 725.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1202, 1748.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1202.


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