Criswell, Andrew McElwain

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Class of 1847
    Full name
    Andrew McElwain Criswell
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    4
    Family
    Robert Criswell (father), Sara McElwain (mother), Louisa Renfrew (wife)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Farmer or Planter
    Businessman
    Educator
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder

    Andrew McElwain Criswell (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    Andrew M. Criswell was born near Scotland, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1824 to Robert and Sarah McElwain Criswell.  He had some early schooling at the nearby Chambersburg Academy and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1844 with the class of 1847.  Criswell was a member of the Union Philosophical Society while at the College. He left his studies in 1845 to take up farming and then school teaching.  He was later involved with a store and local real estate dealings in Scotland.

    Criswell married Louisa Renfrew of Duffield, Pennsylvania, and the couple had four children: Robert Thompson, Nancy Jane, Henrietta Alice, and John Renfrew.  Only the latter married.  After Criswell retired from business, the family moved to Chambersburg.  Andrew Criswell died there on March 31, 1899.  He was seventy-four years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Andrew McElwain Criswell,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/c/ed_criswellAM.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Criswell, Andrew McElwain," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5501.