Walter Benjamin Crowe (1857 - 1931)

Born 14 Oct 1857 in Charleston, Illinois

Ancestors

Husband of Jennie B. Kent — married 27 May 1880 in Kent Township, Warren County, Indiana

Died 19 Jun 1931 at age 73 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Biography

From the Kent Genealogy:
... he was the grandson of Rev. John Finley Crowe, founder of Hanover College at Hanover, Indiana. For more than 40 years he was with the Western Union Telegraph Co., the last 35 years of his service being in Indianapolis. For 20 years prior to his retirement on a pension in 1915, he was manager of the operating room in Indianapolis.

Married at the home of his bride's grandfather, Perrin Kent, in Kent Township, Warren County, Indiana.

Buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Sources

Kent Genealogy by Arthur Scott Kent, privately printed in 1933

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Brenda Smith for starting this profile.

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