Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Crowley, Charles M. September 3, 1864 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

CHARLES M. CROWLEY, 
who is the successful and special representative at Altoona of the Etna Fire
Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, was born September 3, 1864, at
Medina, Orleans county, New York, and is a son of John and Margaret
(Sullivan) Crowley.  His paternal grandfather Crowley was a native of
Ireland, and belonged to the farming class of that country.  During the first
quarter of the present century he came to the United States and settled in
Orleans county, New York, where he cleared out a large farm, on which he
resided until his death, in 1854, at fifty years of age.  His son, John
Crowley, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Ridgeway,
Orleans county, and trained to farming, which he has followed ever since.  He
is a democrat in politics, and resides upon his farm at South Barre, that
county.  He married Margaret Sullivan, and they have reared a family of
several children.  Mrs. Margaret Crowley's father was born in Ireland, and
came to Albion, Orleans county, New York, where he died in 1891, at the
advanced age of eighty-eight years.
   Charles M. Crowley passed his boyhood and youth upon his father's farm,
where he assisted in most of the routine work of farming.  He received his
education at Albion, in his native county, and after he left school was
engaged for two years in teaching in New York.  He then came to Altoona,
where he taught for two years.  In 1886 he formed a partnership with Joseph
Reese, of Johnstown, this State, and successfully conducted the International
Business college of Altoona until 1888, when Mr. Crowley withdrew from the
college management to become book-keeper in the mercantile house, at Altoona,
of Barnet, Bond & Son, of Baltimore, Maryland.  At the end of three years he
resigned his position of book-keeper to engage in his present fire insurance
business, as special agent of the old and well-known Etna Fire Insurance
Company, of Hartford, Connecticut.
   Charles M. Crowley is a democrat in politics.  Fire insurance to-day
represents millions of capital and has grown to a business of large
proportions in every enterprising city of the great commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and Altoona is not behind her sister cities in affording her
citizens the best of opportunities to protect themselves from loss by fire. 
Mr. Crowley represents one of the most reliable fire companies in the United
States and has secured a large patronage by his earnest and effective work.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Janet Ebaugh

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