Atchison County Biographies
E. W. Howe's Historical Edition of the Atchison Daily Globe
These biographies were originally published in 1896 in the Atchison Daily Globe, written by the editor and publisher, E. W. Howe. In 1916 the biographies were reproduced in Sheffield Ingall's "History of Atchison County, Kansas," with a few updates such as death information.
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JOHN M. CROWELL.
John M. Crowell was mayor of Atchison three terms, coming to the city
in 1858 from Londonderry, N. H., where he was born October 22, 1823.
For ten years he was a merchant here, afterwards being appointed Government
storekeeper, and having charge of a distillery below town. From 1870 to
1885, he was United States postoffice inspector for nineteen States and
Territories, and in that capacity visited every section of the country. He resigned
to become a mail contractor, although solicited by a Democratic postmaster
general to remain. His record in Washington was as good as that of any
man who ever worked for the Government. Mr. Crowell was a forty-niner,
crossing the plains during the great rush of that year, and engaging in sluice
mining. He made four trips to California, but never by railroad. From San
Francisco he visited China, South America, the Sandwich Islands, and was
a great traveler in his time. He was the father of Frank G. Crowell, who
was born in Atchison, and for many years a prominent citizen here, but later
resigning his position as county attorney of Atchison county and moving to
Kansas City to engage in the grain business, where he now lives.
John M. Crowell's daughter became Mrs. F. M. Baker, who accumulated
a fortune in the grain business in Atchison. Mr. Crowell died on the eleventh
day of October, 1902.
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