M. Wells Crumb was born at DeRuyter, N. Y.

The evidence

• “Crumb has always made his home at Milton, Wis., where he was born September 7, 1858, the son of M. Wells and Hannah (West) Crumb, the former born August 13, 1824, at DeRuyter, N. Y., to John and Elizabeth (Wells) Crumb, of that place, and the latter, born November 19, 1828, at Leonardsville, N.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 371 / book p. 866

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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