Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Cree, Captain Hiram H. May 21, 1819 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Captain Hiram H Cree, farmer and stock grower, was 
born May 21, 1819, where he now resides of the farm of 160 
acres, which has been in the possession of the family since 
1785.  He is a son of Hamilton Cree and Agnes Hughes Cree, 
natives of Pennsylvania, which has been the home of the 
Crees for many generations.  The Captain's father was a 
farmer, who in 1848 died at the age of seventy eight on the 
farm where Hiram H Cree now resides.  His family consisted 
of ten children.
  
      Hiram, one of the youngest, was reared on the farm, 
and attended the common school in Cumberland Township.  He 
engaged in farming until 1847 when he went to Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and was employed as a salesman in a large wholesale 
dry goods house.  After five months spent in that business, 
he resumed his farming until 1862, when he went into the 
army enlisting in Company A, One Hundred and Sixty Eighth 
Pennsylvania Infantry.  When the company was organized, he 
was unanimously elected its Captain, in which capacity he 
served most faithfully throughout his term. He was ever a 
gallant soldier, highly esteemed by all his company.

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      In 1864 he married Miss Elizabeth Kerr, daughter of 
James S Kerr, and they are the parents of two children: 
Ellen Agnes Kerr and Rose Allena Kerr.  In politics the 
Captain is a Republican, in religion a Methodist, and his 
wife is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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