BIOGRAPHY: Charles N. CROUSE, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 375-6
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CHARLES N. CROUSE, proprietor of the Crouse Hotel, at South Fork, this county, 
is a son of Isaac Newton and Rebecca (Culison) Crouse, and was born in 
Baltimore, Maryand, April 7, 1856.
     The Crouse family is of German nativity and origin, but members of it 
emigrated to this country over a century ago, and became pioneers in the 
development of Carroll county, Maryland. George Crouse, grandfather of the 
gentleman whose name heads this record, was born in Germany, and when but a boy 
came to America with his parents prior to the Revolutionary war. They located in 
Carroll county, where George Crouse learned the trade of a blacksmith, which lie 
followed all his life. He died in Carroll county at the advanced age of ninety-
four years. He was married to Miss Reimdosler, whose parents were also early 
pioneers of Carroll county. Isaac Newton Crouse, father, was the second child 
born in Carroll county, Maryland. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1864. By 
trade he was a painter, but after following it several years he developed a 
taste for a business career, and engaged in the wholesale grocery and commission 
business in Baltimore. The firm of which he was a member, was known as Edwards & 
Crouse. They conducted an extensive and very successful business for many years, 
when failing health compelled Mr. Crouse to retire from active business. He was 
quite a prominent and influential member of the Episcopal church, and 
fraternally was a member of the Masonic Order, also of the Senior Order of 
American Mechanics. He married Miss Rebecca Culison, the mother of our subject. 
She was a descendant of one of the pioneers of Carroll county, Maryland. To this 
marriage four sons and five daughters were born: George, the general yard-master 
of the Northern Central railroad at Baltimore. He has been in the employ of that 
company for thirty years. James French, a farmer of Anne Arundel county, 
Maryland; William, deceased; Jennie, deceased, who was the wife of Samuel 
Crouse, also deceased; Charles N., Annie, the wife of John Wolf, assistant 
superintendent of the Canton elevators of Baltimore, Maryland, and Lizzie, who 
resides with her mother in Baltimore.
     Charles N. Crouse received his education in the common schools of 
Baltimore, and at the age of sixteen became a brakeman on the Northern Central 
railroad; he remained in this position for three years, and then worked one year 
for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In 1878 he removed to Johnstown, this county, 
and entered the employ of the Cambria Iron company, and worked in the Bessemer 
department of their works until 1884. In the latter year he succeeded A. J. 
Skelley as proprietor of the hotel at South Fork, since which time he has 
followed the hotel business. He is a man of good business ability, pleasant and 
genial, and his hotel is conducted in a manner satisfactory to the traveling 
public. It is a three-story building, one hundred and sixty-seven feet front by 
one hundred and sixty-five feet deep, and contains twenty-eight rooms, fitted up 
with all the modern improvements and conveniences. In politics he is a staunch 
democrat, and in 1889 was appointed mercantile appraiser. He is a member of the 
South Fork Castle, No. 101, K. of P., of which he is chancellor commander.
     May 22, 1882, he married Miss Margaret Horner, a daughter of the late 
Joseph Horner, of Wilmore, this county, and their marriage has been blessed in 
the birth of two children -- Charles, deceased, and Mary.