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residing at Bkw nisbur|, was born in Franklin township, Columbia Co., Pa., Ju ly i, 1838, son o f John Kidcr. H is jiatcrnal grandfather died at North Mountain. Pa. Ilis children w ere: Solomon, John, M ary and Hannah. John Rider w as born in l8 t3, and became a successful farm er in Franklin township, where he owned 12^ acres o f land. H is death occurred in the vicinity o f Catawissa, Pa., at the home o f his son, Wilson, when he was sc'cnty-nine years old. H e married Eliza Yettcr, daughter o f Daniel Y'elter, and thcir children w e re : Lloyd T .; Sarah, who mar ried Christ A rtle y; M ary, who married A bra ham S tin e; Wilson, who is living in Cata wissa township, Columbia county; Daniel, de ceased; and Wiliam, also deceased. Lloyd T . Rider, son o f John Rider and father o f M rs. Bartlett H. Johnson, was brought up a farm er, and followed such work all his active years, living first in Franklin, and later in Catawissa township. In 1 8 ^ he retired, and coming to Bloomsburg built his present residence, which he has since occu pied. When the country needed brave men to defend it during the C ivil w ar M r. R ider en listed in Company H, I32d Pennsylvania V ol unteer Infantty, for ten months’ service. A ft e r the expiration o f this term he recnlistcd in Company H, 17th Pennsylvania C avalry, and W'as with General Sherman on his famous march to the sea, continuing in the service until the close of the conflict, at all times prov ing a gallant and brave soldier. i.loyd T . Rider married Esther A . Bucher, o f Franklin township, daughter o f George Bucher, and they had the following fam ily: C h arles: G eorge; H a rry; .Sadie, who married Nelson M unson; Hattie M ., who married B. H. Johnson; Bessie, who married Howard P u rse l: and Mattie, who married Roland A . Fitlerman. M r. Rider belongs to Ent Post, N o. 150. G . A . R . H e is a member of the Methodist Church and takes an interest in its good work. Politically he is a Republican, but not an office seeker, having alw ays pre ferred to give his support to the candidates o f his party as a private citizen rather than enter into public life. Both the Johnson and Rider families are prominent in Columbia county, and the rec ords show that their representatives have been numbcrcil among the honorable, upright men and women o f thcir day.
R e a r Adm iral William Crispin, of the British navy, who w as appointed by his wife’s nephew, William Penn, propnctary of the Province o f Pennsylvania, one o f his com missioners for settling the colony in that Province, but died on the voyage from Eng land. The names o f William Crispin’s parents are now unknown, but he w as undoubtedly bom in Devonshire, where a gentle family of the name had been settled since the Conquest, with several branches in that and adjoining counties. According to D r. Lipscomb’s “ H istory of Buckinghamshire’’ M ilo Crispin, one o f Wil liam the Conqueror's great captains in (he Conquest o f England in 1066 A . D.. liad, be sides the Honour o f W allingford in that count)', eighty-eight other lordships, most or all of them in the southern counties o f Eiwland. some of them being In Devonshire. Milo died without issue In 110 6, and his lordships, or at least a ra rt of them, were inherited by the heirs o f nis elder brother. W illiam Cris pin. Baron o f Bee, in N o rm an ^ . Som e of the descendants o f this W illiam (.rispin came to England and settled on Milo Crispin’s lands which they had inherited. From them descend the Devonshire Crispins. The celebrated Gil bert Crispin, .-bbot o f Westminster, w as a son of this William, Baron o f Bee, Milo's brother. l*his fam ily presents a remarkable instance o f a family surname in use at so early a date. T he brothers W illiam, Gilbert and M ilo, all bearing the surname o f C r i ^ n, w ere sons of Gilbert Crispin, Baron o f Bee, Constable of Normandy, who was son o f Crispinus, Baron o f Bcc (flourished about 1000 A . D .), from whom the fam ily took its name. T his Crispinus, also called Anagothus. because o f Gothic blood, derived through his mother’s mother, w as son o f Grim aldus 1, first Prince o f Monaco, by his w ife Crispina. d.aughtcr o f Rollo, Duke o f Norm andy, “ 'fhe Gentlem.m'8 Magazine.” London. 18 3 2, Part i. pp. 26-30, has a full account o f this part of the family, and derives Grim aldus, through the Dukes o f Brabant, from the ancient Kings of the Franks. N o detailed history or pedigree of the fam ily from Willi.am Crispin, Baron o f B cc, at the lime of the Conquest, down to Capt. William Crispin, founder of the American fam ily, is known to exist, though there may be some unpublished herald’s visitations o f Devonshire, C R I S P I N . T lie founder of the Crispin nr pedigrees in private possession, that would fam ily in America w as Captain and Acting throw much light on the subject. B u t van-
