Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Cryder, Michael ???? - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

MICHAEL CRYDER,
was one of the pioneer settlers of the county.  The Cryders had a grist mill
at Big Spring, in the vicinity of Huntingdon, in 1777.  The family consisted
of a father, mother, and seven sons.  Their mill served for the people at
Standing Stone and the surrounding country.  They were all men suitable for
the times, rugged and daring.  A majority of them were constantly in service
during the war of the revolution, either as frontiersmen, scouts, or
fort-guards.  Michael Cryder, the father, used to spend his days at the mill
and his nights at the fort at Standing Stone during the troublesome times,
and it was himself and five of his sons who accomplished the then
extraordinary achievement of running the first ark load of flour down the
Juniata river.

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