Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cripps, Samuel G. August 16, 1843 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

SAMUEL G. CRIPPS. Richard Cripps (grandfather) was a native 
of Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. He was born near 
Holmesburg, and obtained his education in the schools of the 
vicinity. After leaving school he learned the trade of stone 
mason, and became one of the most extensive builders and 
contractors of his time. He married Judith Wood. They had 
two children- John, who married Rebecca Hawk, and had 
several children: Richard, Elizabeth, Rebecca, William, 
John, Samuel and another who died young; Samuel C., married 
Mary Hughes, daughter of John and Mary (Ward) Hughes, and 
had seven children, Anna, Charles C., William H., and Emily 
H., Rebecca R., Samuel G. and Jesse S. Samuel G. Cripps 
(father) was educated in the public schools of Frankford, in 
Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer by 
occupation, owning the homestead farm on the Bristol 
turnpike, containing about twenty five acres.

Samuel G. Cripps, subject of this sketch, was born August 
16, 1843. He obtained his education in neighboring schools, 
and after leaving his studies learned the trade of 
carpenter, and is now one of the leading builders and 
contractors of Ogontz vicinity, at which place he resides.
 
Mr. Cripps has been twice married. His first wife was 
Caroline Eadline, daughter of James and Catherine Eadline. 
By his first marriage there were two children, Ella H. and 
James E. Mrs. Cripps died in 1880, and he married (second 
wife) Johannah Weisner.

Mr. Cripps has been successfully engaged in contracting and 
building in Ogontz and its vicinity for more than a quarter 
of a century, and has erected some of the finest suburban 
residences in that improving section of Montgomery county. 
He is thoroughly trustworthy, and enjoys the fullest 
confidence of his many patrons and of the community at 
large. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. In 
politics he is a Republican, and an earnest party worker, 
although he has never sought or held office. He was for 
twelve years the efficient president of the Chelten Hills 
Mutual Improvement Association. He is a member of the 
Presbyterian church at Ashbourne.

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