Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Crum, Andrew J. October 18, 1851 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

ANDREW J. CRUM,
senior partner in the planing mill firm of Crum & McNeel, at Altoona, and an
energetic business man, who for many years has been prominently identified
with that business in this city, is a son of Nicholas and Minerva (Houck)
Crum, and was born October 18, 1851, in Todd Township, Huntingdon County,
Pennsylvania.   The Crums are of German descent, but have been citizens of
this country from early times.  Henry Crum (grandfather) was a native of
Maryland, but removed to Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, becoming one of the
earliest settlers of that county.  He was a miller by trade, and lived in
Huntingdon County until his death, at an advanced age.  He married and reared
a large family, among his sons being Nicholas Crum (father), who was born in
Huntingdon County in 1809, and lived nearly all his active life in that
county.  Some eighteen months prior to is death he removed to Mifflin County,
where he died in 1877, at the age of sixty-nine years.  He was a republican in
politics, a miller by occupation, and married Minerva Houck, by whom he had
twelve children.  She is a native of Huntingdon County, a member of the
Lutheran Church, and now resides at Marklesburg, that county, in her
seventy-second year.
   Andrew J. Crum grew to manhood in his native county, and received his
education in the common schools there.  In 1875 he went to the Pacific slope
and spent three years in California, engaged in farming and fruit growing. 
He then returned to Huntingdon County, this State, where he farmed one year,
after which he removed to Cambria County, and spent one year with the lumber
firm of Plack & Glunt.  In 1881 Mr. Crum came to Altoona; and two years later
became a member of the Union Planning Mill company of this city.  He was a
partner in this company until 1889, when the business was reorganized, and
the firm became Plack & Crum.  At the end of a year Mr. Plack withdrew and
the firm name was changed to Crum, Coll & Co.  They did business for one
year, and were succeeded by Glunt & Crum.  In 1892 Mr. Glunt sold his
interest to J. G. McNeel, and the firm name was again changed to Crum &
McNeel.  These men have a fine planing mill and a large business, employing
from twenty to thirty-five men.
   On April 15, 1880, Mr. Crum was married to Sue B. Piper, a daughter of John
Piper, of Huntingdon County.  She is an intelligent and capable woman, and
very popular among her many friends.  Mr. Crum is a republican in politics,
but takes no active part in the heated contests which mark our oft-recurring
elections.

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