Lockport Daily Journal - Saturday August 31, 1901:
Mrs. Richard Crowley, wife of the Hon. Richard Crowley, died at the family residence on High Street yesterday afternoon, August 30, 1901. Her maiden name was Julia M. Corbitt and she was born in Lockport, New York June 9, 1844.
In her early years she was a pupil of Mrs. Ralston, who died in Washington, D. C., and who kept a select school for the education of young ladies in this city. Afterwards she graduated in 1862 from the Lockport Union High School.
In October 1862 in her nineteenth year, she married Richard Crowley of this city, then a young lawyer, to
whom she had been engaged since her sixteenth year.
Ten children were born of the marriage, six sons and four daughters.
Eight of these children, five sons and three daughters, survive her.
Mrs. Crowley was a woman of remarkable beauty of person and of rare accomplishments. She was highly intellectual, a brilliant conversationalist, a great reader, and possessed
of a phenomenal memory. When her husband was in Washington as a Representative in Congress from this Niagara District, Mr. Spofford, then Congressional Librarian and eminent
among scholars for his knowledge of books and persons, said of her that he had never met a person possessed of so great memory and familiarity with authors and especially of poetical authors and writings. That she was an infaiable authority in such matters and could quote, accurately, page upon page from all the most distinguished authors and even from obscure and anonymous writings and writers.
She left two large volumes of scrap books containing her favorite poetical selections, gathered during the past
thirty years, to her youngest daughter, Kathleen, who inherits her mother's poetical taste.
It was Mrs. Crowley's good fortune to acquire and retain
the friendship and respect of many of the most distinguished men and women of our country. President Grant and Mrs. Grant esteemed her most highly, also President Garfleld and wife and President Arthur. She was the intimate friend of Gen. Logan and Mrs. Logan, of Rosco Conkling and Mrs. Conkling, of James G. Blaine and Mrs. Blaine, of the late Justice field in the positions of United States Supreme Court and Mrs. Field, and many other distinguished in National and State affairs.
Abagail Dodge, better known as "Call Hamilton," said Mrs. Crowley was the wittiest and most brilliant woman she had ever met in Washington.
She was the friend also of many of the literary men and women of our country and personally knew many of the leading artists, sculptors and actors and actresses of our day.
Had she given her attention solely to letters she would have been an undoubted success. Some years ago she published her "Echoes from Niagara" in which was very favorably noticed by most of the leading papers of the nation.
But she was a devoted wife and mother and sacrificed everything to her family. Her love and devotion to them
knew no limits and now her children arise up, and call her
blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
What greater honor can a wife and mother have than the
blessing of her children and the praise of her husband ?
She bore her illness with uncomplaining fortitude and sank to rest as sweetly and as peacefully as a child
going to sleep upon it's mother's breast.
With a firm belief in the existence of God, in the immortality of the soul, and in a future state, she passed from the presence of her husband and of all her children,
into the presence of her Maker.
Mrs. Richard Crowley, wife of the Hon. Richard Crowley, died at the family residence on High Street yesterday afternoon, August 30, 1901. Her maiden name was Julia M. Corbitt and she was born in Lockport, New York June 9, 1844.
In her early years she was a pupil of Mrs. Ralston, who died in Washington, D. C., and who kept a select school for the education of young ladies in this city. Afterwards she graduated in 1862 from the Lockport Union High School.
In October 1862 in her nineteenth year, she married Richard Crowley of this city, then a young lawyer, to
whom she had been engaged since her sixteenth year.
Ten children were born of the marriage, six sons and four daughters.
Eight of these children, five sons and three daughters, survive her.
Mrs. Crowley was a woman of remarkable beauty of person and of rare accomplishments. She was highly intellectual, a brilliant conversationalist, a great reader, and possessed
of a phenomenal memory. When her husband was in Washington as a Representative in Congress from this Niagara District, Mr. Spofford, then Congressional Librarian and eminent
among scholars for his knowledge of books and persons, said of her that he had never met a person possessed of so great memory and familiarity with authors and especially of poetical authors and writings. That she was an infaiable authority in such matters and could quote, accurately, page upon page from all the most distinguished authors and even from obscure and anonymous writings and writers.
She left two large volumes of scrap books containing her favorite poetical selections, gathered during the past
thirty years, to her youngest daughter, Kathleen, who inherits her mother's poetical taste.
It was Mrs. Crowley's good fortune to acquire and retain
the friendship and respect of many of the most distinguished men and women of our country. President Grant and Mrs. Grant esteemed her most highly, also President Garfleld and wife and President Arthur. She was the intimate friend of Gen. Logan and Mrs. Logan, of Rosco Conkling and Mrs. Conkling, of James G. Blaine and Mrs. Blaine, of the late Justice field in the positions of United States Supreme Court and Mrs. Field, and many other distinguished in National and State affairs.
Abagail Dodge, better known as "Call Hamilton," said Mrs. Crowley was the wittiest and most brilliant woman she had ever met in Washington.
She was the friend also of many of the literary men and women of our country and personally knew many of the leading artists, sculptors and actors and actresses of our day.
Had she given her attention solely to letters she would have been an undoubted success. Some years ago she published her "Echoes from Niagara" in which was very favorably noticed by most of the leading papers of the nation.
But she was a devoted wife and mother and sacrificed everything to her family. Her love and devotion to them
knew no limits and now her children arise up, and call her
blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
What greater honor can a wife and mother have than the
blessing of her children and the praise of her husband ?
She bore her illness with uncomplaining fortitude and sank to rest as sweetly and as peacefully as a child
going to sleep upon it's mother's breast.
With a firm belief in the existence of God, in the immortality of the soul, and in a future state, she passed from the presence of her husband and of all her children,
into the presence of her Maker.
Lockport Daily Journal - Saturday August 31, 1901:
Mrs. Richard Crowley, wife of the Hon. Richard Crowley, died at the family residence on High Street yesterday afternoon, August 30, 1901. Her maiden name was Julia M. Corbitt and she was born in Lockport, New York June 9, 1844.
In her early years she was a pupil of Mrs. Ralston, who died in Washington, D. C., and who kept a select school for the education of young ladies in this city. Afterwards she graduated in 1862 from the Lockport Union High School.
In October 1862 in her nineteenth year, she married Richard Crowley of this city, then a young lawyer, to
whom she had been engaged since her sixteenth year.
Ten children were born of the marriage, six sons and four daughters.
Eight of these children, five sons and three daughters, survive her.
Mrs. Crowley was a woman of remarkable beauty of person and of rare accomplishments. She was highly intellectual, a brilliant conversationalist, a great reader, and possessed
of a phenomenal memory. When her husband was in Washington as a Representative in Congress from this Niagara District, Mr. Spofford, then Congressional Librarian and eminent
among scholars for his knowledge of books and persons, said of her that he had never met a person possessed of so great memory and familiarity with authors and especially of poetical authors and writings. That she was an infaiable authority in such matters and could quote, accurately, page upon page from all the most distinguished authors and even from obscure and anonymous writings and writers.
She left two large volumes of scrap books containing her favorite poetical selections, gathered during the past
thirty years, to her youngest daughter, Kathleen, who inherits her mother's poetical taste.
It was Mrs. Crowley's good fortune to acquire and retain
the friendship and respect of many of the most distinguished men and women of our country. President Grant and Mrs. Grant esteemed her most highly, also President Garfleld and wife and President Arthur. She was the intimate friend of Gen. Logan and Mrs. Logan, of Rosco Conkling and Mrs. Conkling, of James G. Blaine and Mrs. Blaine, of the late Justice field in the positions of United States Supreme Court and Mrs. Field, and many other distinguished in National and State affairs.
Abagail Dodge, better known as "Call Hamilton," said Mrs. Crowley was the wittiest and most brilliant woman she had ever met in Washington.
She was the friend also of many of the literary men and women of our country and personally knew many of the leading artists, sculptors and actors and actresses of our day.
Had she given her attention solely to letters she would have been an undoubted success. Some years ago she published her "Echoes from Niagara" in which was very favorably noticed by most of the leading papers of the nation.
But she was a devoted wife and mother and sacrificed everything to her family. Her love and devotion to them
knew no limits and now her children arise up, and call her
blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
What greater honor can a wife and mother have than the
blessing of her children and the praise of her husband ?
She bore her illness with uncomplaining fortitude and sank to rest as sweetly and as peacefully as a child
going to sleep upon it's mother's breast.
With a firm belief in the existence of God, in the immortality of the soul, and in a future state, she passed from the presence of her husband and of all her children,
into the presence of her Maker.
Mrs. Richard Crowley, wife of the Hon. Richard Crowley, died at the family residence on High Street yesterday afternoon, August 30, 1901. Her maiden name was Julia M. Corbitt and she was born in Lockport, New York June 9, 1844.
In her early years she was a pupil of Mrs. Ralston, who died in Washington, D. C., and who kept a select school for the education of young ladies in this city. Afterwards she graduated in 1862 from the Lockport Union High School.
In October 1862 in her nineteenth year, she married Richard Crowley of this city, then a young lawyer, to
whom she had been engaged since her sixteenth year.
Ten children were born of the marriage, six sons and four daughters.
Eight of these children, five sons and three daughters, survive her.
Mrs. Crowley was a woman of remarkable beauty of person and of rare accomplishments. She was highly intellectual, a brilliant conversationalist, a great reader, and possessed
of a phenomenal memory. When her husband was in Washington as a Representative in Congress from this Niagara District, Mr. Spofford, then Congressional Librarian and eminent
among scholars for his knowledge of books and persons, said of her that he had never met a person possessed of so great memory and familiarity with authors and especially of poetical authors and writings. That she was an infaiable authority in such matters and could quote, accurately, page upon page from all the most distinguished authors and even from obscure and anonymous writings and writers.
She left two large volumes of scrap books containing her favorite poetical selections, gathered during the past
thirty years, to her youngest daughter, Kathleen, who inherits her mother's poetical taste.
It was Mrs. Crowley's good fortune to acquire and retain
the friendship and respect of many of the most distinguished men and women of our country. President Grant and Mrs. Grant esteemed her most highly, also President Garfleld and wife and President Arthur. She was the intimate friend of Gen. Logan and Mrs. Logan, of Rosco Conkling and Mrs. Conkling, of James G. Blaine and Mrs. Blaine, of the late Justice field in the positions of United States Supreme Court and Mrs. Field, and many other distinguished in National and State affairs.
Abagail Dodge, better known as "Call Hamilton," said Mrs. Crowley was the wittiest and most brilliant woman she had ever met in Washington.
She was the friend also of many of the literary men and women of our country and personally knew many of the leading artists, sculptors and actors and actresses of our day.
Had she given her attention solely to letters she would have been an undoubted success. Some years ago she published her "Echoes from Niagara" in which was very favorably noticed by most of the leading papers of the nation.
But she was a devoted wife and mother and sacrificed everything to her family. Her love and devotion to them
knew no limits and now her children arise up, and call her
blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
What greater honor can a wife and mother have than the
blessing of her children and the praise of her husband ?
She bore her illness with uncomplaining fortitude and sank to rest as sweetly and as peacefully as a child
going to sleep upon it's mother's breast.
With a firm belief in the existence of God, in the immortality of the soul, and in a future state, she passed from the presence of her husband and of all her children,
into the presence of her Maker.
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