From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E. J. Heinemann 
 
p. 697 
 
CHARLES H CRUMBACKER, a highly respected citizen of Valley Grove, Ohio  
county, West Virginia, was born in Wheeling in 1833, and is a son of  
Charles H. Crumbacker, Sr., a grandson of Jonas Crumbacker and  
great-grandson of Peter Crumbacker. 
     Peter Crumbacker was a pioneer settler of Pennsylvania, and lost 
his life while crossing a stream on one of the primitive foot-bridges 
of those days.  Jonas Crumbacker, his son, was a physician and 
druggist, and lived to the age of seventy-two years. 
    Charles H. Crumbacker, Sr., father of the subject hereof, was born 
in Maryland, where he became a druggist.  He removed to Wheeling, and 
for a number of years was one of the prominent druggists of the city.  
His children were: Charles H.; Daniel, who is in the rolling mill at  
Wheeling; George, who is a contractor of Wheeling; Matilda D.; Eliza  
Ann; and John H. 
    Charles H. Crumbacker, the subject of this sketch, married Amanda  
Virginius Wims, a daughter of Henry and Ann Wims.  Henry Wims died in  
1886, at an advanced age, having lived a useful life.  His widow was  
ninety years old at the time of her death, in 1891.  Three children  
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crumbacker, namely: Charles Lee, forty-one  
years old, who is living at home and attending to the farm; George F.,  
aged thirty-eight years, who is in Maryland, working on a telephone  
line; and William A., twenty-one years old who is a barber by trade,  
and still lives at home. 
    Mr. Crumbacker has many warm friends in Valley Grove, and in Ohio  
county, where he is universally esteemed for his many admirable traits  
of character.