Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Crossland, Samuel March 17, 1817 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 426
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Samuel Crossland, an industrious tradesman, for over 
fifty years, of Connellsville and New Haven, was born in 
Poplar Springs, Maryland, March 17, 1817, and is a son of 
Richard and Rebecca Strawbridge Crossland. Samuel Crossland 
traces and English lineage through his paternal grandfather, 
George Crossland, a Quaker, born in England and an early 
settler at Connellsville.
    Richard Crossland, a son of George Crossland, was born 
and reared in Maryland, removed to Connellsville where he 
learned the trade of wagon making, which he pursued as his 
life vocation.  He married Rebecca Strawbridge, born June 
19, 1799, and a daughter of Abram Strawbridge, a native of 
Baltimore, and was later a settler at Connellsville.  They 
had ten children, five sons and five daughters.
    Samuel Crossland received the limited education offered 
by the subscription schools of Connellsville, and well 
remembers his first attendance at school in a small log 
house near the site of the present main school building of 
Connellsville.  He learned the trade of wagon maker, and at 
twenty one years of age, bought out his father's wagon making 
shop, and continued to operate it successfully for twenty 
one years, when he removed to near New Haven, where he 
erected a commodious wagon making factory in 1859, enjoyed a 
good trade for thirty years, sold out in 1889 to his sons, 
and removed to a previously purchased farm near New Haven.
    In 1840 he was married to Miss Nancy McLaine.  They had 
seven children: Albert J Crossland, born October 24, 1841, 
died August 1, 1881, he had a collegiate education, was a 
successful and well-liked businessman; Florence Crossland, 
born August 13, 1843, wife of Samuel Smutz and lives in 
Missouri; Emily Crossland (dead); Harriet F Crossland, wife 
of Philip Wofenberger of Westmoreland county; Irvin 
Crossland, born October 4, 1848, lives in Missouri; Fuller W 
Crossland, born November 11, 1850, lives in Missouri; and 
McLaine Crossland, born June 28, 1852.
    Mr Crossland was married in 1853 to Mrs Eliza Long, 
widow of William Long, and to his second marriage were born 
eight children, born and names as follows: Newcomer 
Crossland, born August 25, 1854; Frank Crossland, born 
January 28, 1856; Nancy Crossland, born December 21, 1857; 
Elmore Crossland, born June 27, 1860 (dead); Maria 
Crossland, born August 20, 1862; Eliza Jane Crossland, born 
March 10, 1865; Harry Crossland, born March 5, 1868; and 
Bird Crossland, born July 26, 1872. Samuel Crossland has 
retired from the active duties of life and resides on his 
well improved farm near New Haven.  He is a good workman, a 
peaceable citizen, and a well respected member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church at Connellsville.

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