From "Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana," Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918, p. 729.

JEFFERSON G. CRUM. Among the energetic and progressive men who are aiding in every possible manner the growth and development of Adams County, whether relating to its agricultural or industrial prosperity, is Jefferson G. Crum of Kirkland Township, deserving of mention in a work of this character. A son of Daniel Crum, he was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, November 30, 1859, and there spent his childhood days.

Daniel Crum was born, reared and educated in Pennsylvania. He there married Elizabeth Diehl, and soon after removed to Mahoning County, Ohio. Buying land that was in its primitive condition, he erected a log cabin, barns, and other buildings, and was there employed as a tiller of the soil until his death, in 1865. The following year, in 1866, his widow came with her six children to Adams County, Indiana, and settled on the eighty acres of land now owned and occupied by her sons Jefferson and David. She was a woman of good business ability, and spent the remainder of her life on the farm which she had purchased. She reared six children, namely : Frank, David, Melissa, Rebecca, Jefferson G., and James.

Frank Crum, the oldest child, now deceased, married Emma, daughter of Constant and Elizabeth Eli, and at his death left four children, William, Charles, Amos, and Molly. David never married. Melissa, wife of Tillman Robenold, has four children, William, Charles, Floyd, and Daisy Ann is deceased. Rebecca, who married Wolf Cale, has five children, Howard, Charles, Mabel, Ward, and Delbert. James Crum married Nora Church, of Adams County, and they are parents of five children, Gladys, Mitchell, Levaun, Elsie, and Spafford.

Coming with his widowed mother from Ohio to Indiana, where her two brothers, now deceased, were then living, Jefferson G. Crum was educated in the district schools, and later served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade. In 1899 Mr. Crum and his brother David purchased the interests of the other heirs in his mother's estate, which now consists of seventy-nine acres, one acre having been sold for school property. Although he is a practical and successful agriculturist, he prefers working at his trade rather than at farming, and has built a large percentage of the houses and buildings in this locality, each and all of which bespeak his thorough knowledge of the different branches of carpentry and joining.

Like his brother David, Mr. Crum is still a bachelor. He is a democrat in his political affiliations, but has never been an aspirant for official honors.

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