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Sidney Henry Crippen

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Birth	:	23 Jul 1846 Roseville, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	21 Mar 1920 Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Plainview Memorial Park Cemetery, Plainview, Pierce County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.3512160, -97.7877140
Plot	:	732
Description	:	Nebraska GENWEB project COMPENDIUM OF REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HUNDREDS OF PROMINENT OLD SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF NEBRASKA - 1912 Mr. Sidney H. Crippen, of Plainview, Nebraska, has been familiar with northern Nebraska since 1878, having preceded his father to the country two years. Sidney H. Crippen was born in Rutland township, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1846, and resided there until his migration to Nebraska, He was engaged in lumbering and saw mill work, that being a heavily timbered country in those days. His parents, Daniel and Annie... Read More	Nebraska GENWEB project COMPENDIUM OF REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HUNDREDS OF PROMINENT OLD SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF NEBRASKA - 1912 Mr. Sidney H. Crippen, of Plainview, Nebraska, has been familiar with northern Nebraska since 1878, having preceded his father to the country two years. Sidney H. Crippen was born in Rutland township, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1846, and resided there until his migration to Nebraska, He was engaged in lumbering and saw mill work, that being a heavily timbered country in those days. His parents, Daniel and Annie (Hodges) Crippen, were natives of Pennsylvania and New York. respectively. The father was also engaged in lumbering and rafting, following that vocation down the Tioga, Chemung and Susquehanna rivers to tide-water in Chesapeake Bay, and in 1880 he came to Nebraska, and filed on a homestead in Antelope county, near the line of Pierce county. He died here in June, 1894, and the mother died in October, 1908. Another son, Joseph, lives on Willow Creek, in Antelope county. Sidney H. Crippen first came to Nebraska in the fall of 1878, and, with four companions, left the railroad at Columbus, whence they proceeded on foot - the better to see the country - to Albion, where they spent a fortnight with an old Tioga county friend. Not seeing anything to their liking, the five friends came to Neligh by wagon, and thence to the north end of Antelope county, where within an hour all had selected homesteads and cast their lots with Nebraska. Mr. Crippen farmed in Antelope county some ten miles southwest from Plainview for twelve years, when he sold his farm and moved to town, now being engaged in well drilling and house moving. For two years he served as city marshal and an equal period as night watchman. In November, 1909, he was elected for his tenth term as constable, which, if he finishes his term will round out twenty years in the office. On one occasion, in November, 1904, when there wasa disturbance on the street, he stepped in to see what was the matter. A big fellow crazed by drink, thrust a saber through Mr. Crippen's body and turned it before withdrawing the blade. No one expected the wounded man to survive, but so hardy is he that even a mutilation such as this did not kill him. Mr. Crippen was first married in Mansfield, Pennsylvania to Miss Juliette McConnell, a native of Tioga county, and daughter of Justus and Hannah (Bryant) McConnell. Four of their children lived to maturity and married: Martha, deceased, was the wife of Thomas Houselander, their son, Earl, being the first to confer the honorable title of great-grandfather; Edith married Charles McCudden, of Sioux City; Mary is the wife of Oliver W. Nelson, engaged in automobile work in Plainview; and Ethel married John Weiler, also of Plainview. Mr. Crippen was a second time married to Mrs. Matilda Morton, who, like her parents, Ambrose and Catherine (Arnold) Colson, was a native of Maine. After the death of her husband, Edwin Morton, she brought her two daughters to the west, where she had relatives, reaching Plainview in July, 1887, her parents following that fall. Her elder daughter, Angelia, is the wife of S. H. Finney, of Chadron, Nebraska, and Bertha married John L. Lapini, deceased, and lives in Plainview. During his early years in Nebraska, Mr. Crippen experienced all the hardships of the frontier. On one occasion, on coming to Plainview with his father for coal, they found but two hundred pounds for sale, which they loaded on their wagon and started home. On the way they noticed a neighbor and his wife busily at work near the side of a haystack and wondered what they were doing. By driving in and inquiring, he learned they were twisting hay for fuel. For the next two years his house was heated and their food all cooked with twisted hay. Corn was their fuel at times, and since moving to town Mr. Crippen has used it from time to time, paying for one lot seven cents a bushel, which was a much cheaper fuel than coal at the prices for which that commodity was selling. He saw the last flight of grasshoppers here in 1879, and although he thought them numerous, the earlier settlers who had seen them at their worst, assured him these swarms were very small. At the time of the blizzard of October, 1880, Mr. Crippen, with some neighbors was engaged in railroad construction near Niobrara. They were camping in the canyon under the canvas top of a covered wagon, which they had set up in a grove of small willows with the tree tops laced above. With their camp fire roaring at the front of their fragile domicile, they were quite comfortable despite the raging storm. During the blizzard of 1888, Mr. Crippen was in town and made two efforts to get home, but could go only a little distance before having to turn back. Going with a party to the schoolhouse to rescue the children, he had the presence of mind to ring the bell which guided some who were lost on their way to the school and others who had started home and became bewildered in the storm. At his suggestion the bell was kept ringing until after midnight. Deer and antelope were plentiful and so tame that they would feed at any time near the dugout of the settlers. At one time an antelope chased back to the house a puppy that was barking at it. Such incidents are typical of the frontier, and they can never be seen again. Mr. Crippen is a highly respected citizen, being a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In political belief, Mr. Crippen is a republican.

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Sidney Henry Crippen's memorial is located at: Plainview Memorial Park Cemetery, Plainview, Pierce County, USA.
When did Sidney Henry Crippen death?
Sidney Henry Crippen death on 21 Mar 1920 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 42.3512160
Longitude: -97.7877140

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Juliette “Jewell” McConnell Crippen

(1852 - 1903)

Siblings

Joseph Crippen

(1841 - 1919)

Children

Elizabeth Martha Crippen Hulslander

(1869 - 1904)

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