8 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Boyd Crumrine. 

 Born February 9, 1838, Died August 21, 1916. 



It is with sorrow that we record the death of Mr. Boyd Crum- 

 rine, on August 21, 1916, at his home in Washington, Pa. He 

 was born, February 9, 1838, in Washington County, on the farm 

 originally acquired by his grandfather in 1800. Graduating from 

 Jefferson College in i860 with highest honors, he was admitted to 

 the bar of Washington County, Pa., on August 2, 1861. In 

 November of the same year he enlisted in the Eighty-fifth Penn- 

 sylvania Volunteers, and was made quartermaster-sergeant of the 

 regiment. He subsequently was transferred to a regiment of 

 Virginian troops, in which he served as first lieutenant. At the 

 close of the war he engaged in the practice of law, becoming Dis- 

 trict Attorney of Washington County, in which office he served 

 for three years, and in 1870 he was appointed United States Deputy 

 Marshall for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In 1877 

 Governor James A. Beaver appointed him reporter of the Supreme 

 Court of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the bar of Washing- 

 ton County for fifty-five years, and practised law in Allegheny 

 County for the last forty-five years. 



Mr. Crumrine early in life became interested in local history 

 and devoted a great deal of time to painstaking research in this 

 field. He was the organizer of the Washington County Historical 

 Society, in which from its beginning he held the Presidency for 

 fifteen consecutive years, resigning some years ago, feeling unable 

 any longer to perform the duties required of him, and being made 

 President emeritus. He was one of the most thoroughly informed 

 students of the history of the region of which Pittsburgh is the 

 metropolis. In the Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vols. 

 I-III, we had the pleasure of publishing the Records of the Courts 

 of Virginia, held during the Boundary Controversy between 

 Virginia and Pennsylvania, in W^estern Pennsylvania and Western 

 Virginia. These interesting old documents were very carefully 

 edited by Mr. Crumrine, and for the first time made accessible 

 to the general public in the Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



