History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . d(i|>itiil holds almost supreme sway, that a man makinghis way liy his own unaided energy and native intellect-uality achieves notable business success, and erects amonument to his own memory in the aflisctions ofhis fellow-citizens, and goes dow?i to death, widely, before reaching forty years of age. But a?Neeptiori to tlie general rule existed in thelie late .T. Crosshind, of New Haven,Co., who was born Oct. 24, 1841, and died881. Mr. Crossland was remotely of Quaker st
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . d(i|>itiil holds almost supreme sway, that a man makinghis way liy his own unaided energy and native intellect-uality achieves notable business success, and erects amonument to his own memory in the aflisctions ofhis fellow-citizens, and goes dow?i to death, widely, before reaching forty years of age. But a?Neeptiori to tlie general rule existed in thelie late .T. Crosshind, of New Haven,Co., who was born Oct. 24, 1841, and died881. Mr. Crossland was remotely of Quaker stock, andwas the son of Mr. Samuel Crossland, who lived atConnellsville at the time of his sons birth. in boyhood attended the common school ofhis native village, and wdien about fifteen years of agewent with his father to a then recently purchased farmin Broad Ford, where he learned of his father, thena carriage-maker as well as farmer, the trade of car-riage-making. Possessing a strong desire for learning,Albert pursued private studies, and at length entered mournemarkedcase ofFayetteAug. 1,.
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