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Born: 2/6/1827, Died: 3/19/1892 Architect, carpenter and hotel manager, John Crump was born in Cheltenham, England. At the age of l2 he was brought to Philadelphia by his father, William H. Crump, who was employed as an editor by the Philadelphia Inquirer. John Crump's first appearance in the Philadelphia city directories is in 1854 when he is noted as an accountant in the office of Matthew T. Miller, a broker. One of Crump's obituaries reported that he left Miller's office, moved to Ohio, and learned the trade of carpenter and architect. By 1858 Crump was again in the Philadelphia city directories, this time as a builder, a profession which would be reported for him in the directories until 1870, when he was transformed into an architect. In 1871 his three occupations received individual notice in the city directories; he is listed as carpenter, architect and hotel manager. It appears that Crump was able to move between these three endeavors with some facility, being employed as a contractor on John Fraser's design for the Union League Building on South Broad Street and on Thomas Richards's design for the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in 1873 and as an architect for the Globe and Atlas Hotels erected near the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia in 1876, while still functioning as manager for the Colonnade Hotel, which he had designed and constructed from several properties at 15th and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. In addition, Crump also operated stone quarries in Conshohocken and Media, PA.According to the report written by Ewing, Cole, Rizzio, Cherry, Parsky for Widener University, Crump retired in 1886 but then "established some 3,000 grapevines on the Media property." Crump was a member of the Society of the Sons of St. George, which he joined in 1863. After he supervised construction of the Union League clubhouse according to John Fraser's design (in the process losing money owing to an increased price in building materials, according to the Evening Bulletin 5 May 1865), he joined the League. In 1866 he also joined The Carpenters' Company.
Written by Sandra L. Tatman. Clubs and Membership Organizations
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