Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Crumbaker DDS, Harry E. September 7, 1865 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HARRY E. CRUMBAKER, D.D.S.,
one of the rising young dentists of Altoona, who holds a diploma from the
Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tennessee, and ha been in successful
practice since 1888, is a son of Levy B. and Barbara A. (Harpster) Crumbaker,
and was born September 7, 1865, in Frankstown township, Blair County,
Pennsylvania.  The family is descended from old German stock, and was first
planted in this county by Jesse Crumbaker (grandfather), who removed from
Virginia to what is now Frankstown Township, about 1840, where he died in
1873, aged seventy-one years.  He was a prosperous farmer, and owned and
operated two fine farms in that township.  He was a republican in politics,
and a member of the Dunkard Church.  He married, and reared a large family. 
Levi B. Crumbaker (father) was born in this county about 1838, and died at
his home here in 1890, at the age of fifty-two years.  He was a farmer by
occupation, but for twenty years taught school during the winter months,
becoming known as a very popular and successful teacher.  In 1881 he retired
from school teaching, and moved into the city of Altoona, where he lived
until his death.  He was a republican in politics, a member of the Second
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Altoona, and was widely known as a
kind-hearted, liberal-handed Christian gentleman, who had the respect and
esteem of all who knew him.  He married Barbara A. Harpster, and to them was
born a family of six children.  She was born in Frankstown Township, this
county, and now resides in the city of Altoona, being in the fifty-third year
of her age.  She is a devoted member of the Second Evangelical Lutheran
Church, and is greatly esteemed.
   Harry E. Crumbaker was reared partly on his father's farm in Frankstown
Township, and partly in Altoona.  His education was obtained in the public
schools, and after completing his studies there he obtained a situation in
the rolling mills in Altoona, where he was employed for five years.  He then
commenced to study dentistry in the office of Dr. N. P. Duffy, of Altoona,
and later entered the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, and was
graduated with honors from that institution in 1888, standing the third best
general examination in the class of thirty-three.  The same year he located
in Altoona for the practice of dentistry, forming a partnership with Dr. J.
S. Mardis, under the firm name of Mardis & Crumbaker.  This firm existed
until October 1891, when t was dissolved and Doctor Crumbaker succeeded to
the business, remaining in the old office.  He has won a good standing in his
profession, and now does a large and prosperous business in fine dentistry.
In his political affiliations, Dr. Crumbaker is a republican, but takes
little part in active politics, preferring to devote his time and energies to
his chosen profession, in which he has already won an enviable reputation.

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