Samuel M Crawford M.D. (1810 - 1886)

Born 5 Feb 1810 in Montgomery Township, Orange County, New York, United States

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Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1886 at age 76 in New York, United States [uncertain]

Biography

Samuel is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Montgomery, New York.

from p. 171-172

Of this number Samuel M. was born Feb. 5, 1810 in the township of Montgomery, where the years of his boyhood were spent. The public school of the district was first attended, after which the academy in the village of Montgomery enabled him to acquire proficiency in the classics, and fitted him for admission to Union College, at Schenectady, N.Y., in 1829 from which institution he was graduated in 1832. He at once began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. George Eager, of Montgomery, and received his diploma in 1836.

The doctor soon after chose his native township as a commanding field of labor, where he began his professional career, and has since been an active practitioner. He is now [1881] one of the oldest representatives of the profession in Orange County, and though entitled, after a laborious life spent in the interests of the science of medicine, to a respite from toil, still responds to the many demands made upon his skill and knowledge derived from wide experience.

Dr. Crawford was, in April, 1836, married to Miss Eliza A., daughter of John C. Niemyer, of Virginia. They have had eight children, of whom the following survive: Matilda (Mrs. J.C. Wilbur), Susan V., Henry V., and Mattie (Mrs. C.H. Hinckley). In his political affinities the doctor is a stanch Republican, though an acitve professional life has left little time for participation in the campaign strifes incident to official preferment. His religious views are those of the Presbyterian denomination, his family being among the worshipers of the church in Montgomery. Dr. Crawford is one of the earliest living members of the Orange County Medical Society, having joined it in 1837.

Sources

• Ruttenber, E. M., and L.H. Clark. History of Orange County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Many of its Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881. Print.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1M-D2Z : accessed 30 January 2016), Samuel M Crawford, Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States; citing family 654, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6QS-BFP : accessed 30 January 2016), Samuel M Crawford, E.D. 1, Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States; count clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 834,635.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCQ1-1W3 : 30 December 2015), Samuel M Crawford, Town of Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States.

• United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8VJ-XHM : 14 June 2019), S M Crawford, 1870, Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZXR-DLV : 8 September 2017), Samuel M Crawford, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 24, sheet 416A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0910; FHL microfilm 1,254,910.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #50827474 retrieved 16 July 2017 Photo of gravestone for Samuel M. Crawford M.D. and his wife Eliza A. Niemeyer in Riverside Cemetery, Montgomery, Orange County, New York.