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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-