Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . Crank-shaw died in 1881, at eighty-seven years ofage. Their children, six in number, were :Nancy, James, Hamilton, Rev. John Weir,Margaret, and Horatio. Nancy Crankshaw,the only white woman that remained inAtlanta, Georgia, when it was besiegedduring the late Civil war, married JudgeThomas Spencer, who was in the machinebusiness at Philadelphia and Atlanta, Geor-gia, from 1842 until h
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . Crank-shaw died in 1881, at eighty-seven years ofage. Their children, six in number, were :Nancy, James, Hamilton, Rev. John Weir,Margaret, and Horatio. Nancy Crankshaw,the only white woman that remained inAtlanta, Georgia, when it was besiegedduring the late Civil war, married JudgeThomas Spencer, who was in the machinebusiness at Philadelphia and Atlanta, Geor-gia, from 1842 until his death in 1888. Hewas a native of Lancashire, England, andhis son-in-law, P. J. Moran, is now associateeditor of the Allan/a Constitution, and wasthe coadjutor of Henry Grady. JamesCrankshaw, the second child, is the fatherof the subject of this sketch. HamiltonCrankshaw, a machinist by trade, camewith Judge Spencer in 1842 to Philadelphia,and afterwards removed to Atlanta, Georgia,where he is in the lumber business, andwhere his son Charles is one of the leadingjewelers of that city. Rev. John Weir, a distinguished Metho-dist clergyman, died in England, at the ageof forty-five years. Margaret Crankshaw.
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