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Author: HuntingtonV
Surnames: Crandel Londenback Morgan
Classification: biography
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Thomas Crandel, M.D., physician and surgeon, of Kelso, is a native of Indiana, born in
Fayette County, June 7, 1838, the eldest son of Michael and Sarah (Londenback) Crandel.
The father and mother about the year of 1849, or 1850, moved to Huntington County and
settled near Warren, Salamonie Township, where the former's death occurred in 1870.
The mother is still living, being at this time a resident of the town of Warren. Thomas
Crandel received a good common school education and remained under the parental roof until
the age of twenty-one, assisting his father on the farm in the meantime. After a few
months spent with his father in the capacity of a farm laborer he accepted a position as
teacher in the public schools and was thus engaged in Salamonie and Jefferson Townships
until the breaking out of the great Civil War, when he exchanged the quiet duties of
instructor for the more active and arduous duties of the soldier. August 28, 1861, he was
mustered into service a!
s a member of Company C, Thirty-Fourth Indiana Infantry with which he served for a period
of nearly five years, participating in a number of active campaigns and bloody battles
during that period. At the battle of Thompson Hills, Tex., he was the victim of a mishap
caused by the action of a comrade in firing a gun close to his ear, causing a partial
deafness from which he has never fully recovered. At the expiration of his term of
service, February 3, 1866, Dr. Crandel returned home and for some time thereafter was
engaged in teaching, which he subsequently abandoned for the medical profession, beginning
the study of the latter under Dr. Yingling, of Huntington. On completing his preliminary
reading he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, at Cincinnati, from which institution
he graduated in the spring of 1869. After graduation he at once engaged in the active
practice of his profession, which he now carries on in connection with the drug and retail
grocery business !
at the town of Kelso. In addition to his mercantile interest the Doct
or owns a fine farm of 136 acres in Salamonie Township and a smaller one in Wells County,
both of which are substantially improved and well cultivated. He is a member of Majenica
Lodge, No. 563, F. & A. M., and also belongs to Monroe Laymon Post, No. 211, G. A. R.
He is a member of the Methodist Church, as is also his wife, and in politics votes with
the Republican party. He was married February 21, 1869, to Miss Hannah M. Morgan, of
Franklin County, Ind.
History of Huntington County, Indiana. (Brant & Fuller: Chicago, IL) 1887.
Biographical Sketches of Lancaster Township, p. 705.
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