{"id":1419,"date":"2025-06-11T02:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:28:20","slug":"crecilius-clark-h-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/06\/11\/crecilius-clark-h-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crecilius, Clark H."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd,\nJefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington.\nJohn M. Gresham &amp; Co.   1889   \n\n\n\nCLARK H. CRECILIUS was born October 7, 1847, in Crawford county, Ind., and is a son \nof Philip and Drucilla (Enlow) Crecilius, natives of Tennessee, but who came to this State \namong the pioneers. His grandfather came from Germany in an early day.  His parents died \nwhen he was but four years of age, and his early life was marked by toil and poverty.  For \na few years after the death of his parents he found a home with John Glosson, and was then \nbound to Thomas leghhill, of Harrison county, with whom he remained eight years, when his \nmaster died.  He then lived with James Highhill until 1862, when he came to Leavenworth, and \nwas given employment by J. H. Lyon, a merchant of that place. Up to this time he had had \nfew advantages for receiving an education, but while with Mr. Lyon he studied at odd times and\nclerked at $10 per month with \"board and washing\" included.  In June, 1863, he enlisted in \nCo. C, Seventy-forth Indiana volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. On \nhis discharge from the Army, he returned to the  employment of Mr. Lyon, remaining one\nyear.  Afterward he attended Hartsville University for six months.  He then entered the \nemployment of John S. Whitten, remaining with him until 1870, when he was elected Recorder\nof the county, and in 1874 was re-elected.  At the expiration of his second term, he was elected \nCounty Treasurer, and re-elected in 1882. In 1885 he was elected joint-representative from \nthe counties of Crawford and Orange, and served in the Fifty-fourth General Assembly.  He next\nengaged in mercantile business at Marengo, which he followed about two and a half years, \nacting postmaster the while, and then located at Leavenworth.  In 1889 he was appointed \nclerk to the Ways and Means Committee of the National House of Representatives.   \nIn 1869, Mr. Crecilius was married to Miss Katie Wilbur, a daughter of Joseph Wilbur, whose \nfather, William Wilbur, was the second settler of the town.  The latter was from New York, \nand was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving through the struggle as drum-major.  The Wilburs\nremoved from New York to Pennsylvania, and to Indiana about the year 1824, settling in Crawford \ncounty, near Leavenworth.  Joseph Wilbur, the father of Mrs. Crecilius, was born in New York \nin 1814, and was married at the age of twenty years to Sarah Patrick, a daughter of Brice \nPatrick, Esq., an early settler of the county.  Mr. and Mrs. Crecilius have had six children, \nviz:  Hallie, Frank, Clyde, Sadie, Florence and Gracie.  Hallie is married to Sherman W.\nStewart, and lives at Marengo.  The other children are at home.\n\n\n                \n\nData Entry Volunteer:  Dee Floyd-Pavey   \"dee1234@aye.net\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington. John M. Gresham &amp; Co. 1889 CLARK H. 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