William H. H. Crowell (1841-1913) was born in Geneva, Ohio, and died in
New York, New York. In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, he enlisted as a
private in Company F of the 1st Ohio Artillery and thereafter had an extensive and
distinguished military career, serving in West Virginia, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee,
Virginia, Missouri, Kansas, and New York. He attained the rank of major in the 6th
Infantry before retiring from the military in 1900. He then became vice president and
director of The Norman Company, Inc., in New York City. He married Sarah Jane "Jennie"
Crowell (b. Hyde) in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1864, and they moved to Buffalo, New York, in
the early 1880s. In 1886 Crowell wrote a letter to Mary Baker Eddy inquiring about
obtaining Christian Science treatment for his wife.
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