Husband John Cresswell 1
AKA: John Creswell 2
Born: 28 Dec 1794 - West Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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Died: 23 Jun 1881 - Petersburg, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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Father: Robert Cresswell ( -1807) 3
Mother: Mary Graffius ( -Abt 1832) 3
Marriage: 27 Aug 1816 - Alexandria, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
Other Spouse: Marilla Burr ( -1878) 1 - 29 Oct 1835 1
Wife Margaret Mytinger 1 2
Born: 19 Oct 1789 2
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Died: 29 Mar 1832 1
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Father: Lt. John Jacob Mytinger (1750-1793) 1 2
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Children
1 M Robert Cresswell 1
Born: 24 Jun 1817 1
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2 M John Cresswell, Jr. 1
Born: 16 Jan 1819 1
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Died: 27 Jan 1882 - Hollidaysburg, Blair Co, PA 1
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Spouse: Margaret Armitage ( - ) 4
3 F Elizabeth Cresswell 1
Born: 10 Dec 1820 1
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Died: Aft 1883
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Mary Cresswell 1
Born: 12 Oct 1822 1
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M George Mytinger Cresswell 1
Born: 1 Oct 1824 - Alexandria, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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Spouse: Martha W. Forrest (1830-1873) 5
Marr: 31 May 1853 5
6 M Silas Anderson Cresswell 1
Born: 1 Aug 1826 1
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Spouse: Abigail Wakefield ( - ) 1
Marr: 23 Jan 1853 1
7 F Henrietta M. Cresswell 5
Born: 22 Jun 1828 5
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Spouse: Dr. J. H. Shumaker ( - ) 5
8 M Matthew Cresswell 5
Born: 25 Sep 1830 5
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General Notes: Husband - John Cresswell
He learned the trade of chair-making, and carried on the business in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, up to about the year 1832. He served many years as a justice of the peace, and in 1822 was elected county commissioner. Afterward he became a contractor on the Wabash Canal, in the State of Indiana. In January, 1839, he was appointed by Governor Porter prothonotary, and served until a successor was chosen at the following October election. Subsequently he was appointed collector of tolls on the canal at Huntingdon, to which he moved his family and remained there several years. In 1847 he commenced the mercantile business at Manor Hill. In 1853, Petersburg became his residence, where, with his son George M., under the firm-name of John Cresswell & Son, he continued until his death to take an interest in the mercantile and grain trade. In his earlier years he took an active interest in military affairs, and from service in the militia received the appellation "colonel," a designation by which he was universally known. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and for many years was a prominent and useful member of his congregation. Politically he was always a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for James Monroe, in 1816, and the last for Winfield S. Hancock, in 1880. He was a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 178, A. Y. M., at Huntingdon, and although the lodge was disbanded during anti-Masonic times, he never ceased his interest in the work of the craft.