Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical Authors: J H Herrick; John Paul Jones; Weston A. Goodspeed; R H Herrick Published: Chicago, F A Battey & Co., 1882 =========================================================================== CRANDELL, Henry R. - Greenfield Township =========================================================================== Henry R. Crandell, deceased, the son of Ivory and Hopey Crandell, was born in the State of New York May 31, 1821. His father was a native of Rhode Island; he came to Indiana and located in the township where Mrs. Hopey Crandell died, September 12, 1847; Ivory Crandell died in Steuben County, Ind. The subject passed his youth in Washington County, N.Y., with his grandparents, and there received a common education and taught his first term of school. At the age of twenty-two, he came to Indiana, taught school and clerked, and in 1849 opened a store at Lexington, in this township, consisting of general merchandise. He was married in Johnson Township, this county, October 12, 1847, to Jeanette P. Wildman, a native of Litchfield County, Conn., and the daughter of Levi and Sally Wildman, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Massachusetts; both died in La Grange County. Mr. Crandell served as Trustee and Clerk of Greenfield Township about ten years, and as Postmaster until his death, January 8, 1870; since then the office and store - which are connected - have been under the efficient management of Mrs. Crandell and her son. She is a member of the Methodist Church, and by Mr. Crandell had only two children - Sarah H. and Edwin L.H., the former of whom is married. ===========================================================================