Benjamin Franklin Crispin and Catharine Roe

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Husband Benjamin Franklin Crispin ¹

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           Born: 2 Aug 1821 - Holmesburg, Philadelphia Co, PA 1
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           Died: 19 Jul 1898 - West Philadelphia, PA 2
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         Father: Hon. Benjamin Crispin (1792-1864) 3
         Mother: Maria Foster (Abt 1800-1882) 3

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth R. Glenn (      -1873) 2 - 29 Jun 1845 2

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Wife Catharine Roe ²

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Franklin Crispin

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He was educated at the Lower Dublin Academy and other educational institutions, and became a member of the firm of Collins & Crispin, weighmasters, and later becoming the head of the firm, the name was changed to B. F. Crispin & Company, and he remained at its head the remainder of his life. The firm was the leading one of weighmasters in the city of Philadelphia, and Mr. Crispin was favorably known in commercial circles, as an able, energetic and upright business man. He continued to reside in Holmesburg until 1873, when, having lost his first wife and a daughter, he removed to Camden, New Jersey, and resided there for a number of years, finally removing to West Philadelphia, where he died. While a resident of Holmesburg, he took an active interest in local affairs. He was for a number of years Secretary of the Frankford and Holmesburg Railroad Company; was one of the founders of the Holmesburg Public Library and served as its President for a number of years. In 1871 he was elected a Trustee of the Lower Dublin Academy, and in 1891 was made President of the Board, a position previously held by his father, and held that position to the time of his death, presiding at a banquet given in January, 1894, at the Green Tree Hotel, Holmesburg, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the Board. He was elected in 1872 a vestryman of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, an office also held by his father, whom he also succeeded as President of the Board of Trustees of the Crispin Cemetery Corporation, an account of which is given above, and served in that position until his death.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 367.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 368.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 366.